SHE is a Combodian Veil Tale Female lol. (best guess) she is showing stress.... anything inn the water kinda weirding her out? whats the temp?maybe add some AQ salt for good measures...
I don't think she is stressing about anything except probably us taking pictures. My tank I think FINALLY cycled through b/c she was in pretty high ammonia for a while. She was actually chasing my finger while my hubby was taking the pictures. She wouldn't hold still b/c she is so excited when I'm by her! So I had to distract her lol. I know her very well and don't think she is stressed out. She's a lot smaller than the pictures looks too. She still looks so tiny to me.
Does it make a difference that Junior is a baby still?
I have read other places on the net that babies have stripes as a sort of camouflage. She is definitely not an adult yet. I hope she is okay =(
She seems happy and hyper all the time. No OTHER signs of stress. Maybe I should feed her more since shes a baby? I feed her 4 pellets once a day and a smashed pea once a week. Is this not enough for her growing body?
She seems perfectly healthy to me. The horizontal bars of color that are on her in the picture are a sign of stress, however if she does not show this while she is around you it was probably just the camera. Baby bettas don't have a sort of camouflage when they are young like other species. The amount of food seems fine. You could always mix it up with frozen/freeze-dried foods too. Personally I would stop feeding her a pea since it doesn't help them any. They are carnivores and I have read that peas actually stop up their digestive system. Other than that keep up the good work. She looks great!
Those bars are also normal on very young bettas.. she looks to be still coloring up so I wouldn't say those bars are due to stress just yet, as it very easily could just be from being a juvenile.
As for coloring.. most likely blue with red wash, the body color will still come in as she gets older. It took my blue female a while until she actually colored up fully on her body, I believe she was about 6-8 months old before the blue showed up strong.
Hard to tell from the angle, but I am going to make a guess it's a VT female.. I'm about 80% sure, but can still be a male. Some males don't grow their fins long until 3+ months of age.. they continue to grow until 7mo of age.
Thank you everyone! I started stressing out lastnight thinking that my baby was stressing out. It's probably b/c she is so small still. She acts like a puppy when I'm around, she will wiggle like crazy when I play with her and talk to her. I take my pipette and she chases it and I blow bubbles with it and she loves it. She seems happy to me.
And I know when she's NOT happy. I once tried transferring her into a 20 gallon by herself but the filter was way too strong and there wasn't enough plants and hiding spots. (I did this b/c the ammonia in the little tank was really high and the 20 gallon was already cycled) I could tell instantly she hated it. I felt so bad and thought she was going to die b/c I stressed her out so badly. I put her BACK in the small one and she instantly colored up again and was swimming around like normal.
Yeah I've had the same problem before. :/ I bought a 5 gallon tank this summer and wanted to put my favorite boy in it, who is currently in a 2.5 gallon. The second I did he stressed out completely! I thought I was going to loose him so I put him back in his 2.5 gallon tank and he has been fine since. I've noticed that some of them actually like smaller tanks while others could careless.
Aww.. sorry you were stressed out But I wouldn't worry about it.. being active, eating healthy, responsive to you.. don't see a sign of a stressed out fish.
Just going by your description of age and such, pretty much tells you she is just a youngin' Or he... lol
The stripes re probably because she's young. Could be a male but I think they're right that she's a female.
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