Hi all,
My name's Sam and I've been lurking around these boards for about a week now. I am a newbie at keeping bettas as evidenced by the following story.
My betta keeping began early this year when I decided (kind of on a whim) to purchase a betta. I had several pass on me after doing water changes (not exactly sure what the problem was, but Petco said they had been having problems with the bettas at that time as well). Anyways...I ended up with a baby betta we named Cinco. Cinco has since grown to be about 2.5 to 2.75 inches and is a beautiful, vibrant red color with lovely medium sized fins. He is so interactive and always swims up to me. He's also rather fond in letting me know when he's ticked off (too strong a filter current in new tank).
I bought him a floating mirror to play with and he loves to push the floating ball around and look at himself in the mirror (not flaring at himself I might add). So Cinco has always been very, very active, a pig when it comes to feeding time, and loves to lay on the leaf hammock I bought him. Lately I've been noticing he's not quite as active, still eating great and still swims up to me when I come near, but otherwise laying at bottom of tank under some plants more. I've also noticed that his belly has gotten larger. I thought maybe I was feeding him too much even though I feed him the same as my other bettas and that he's always had. I was stressing out that something was wrong with him and was racking the site to figure out what to do.
This morning I was greeting Cinco and feeding him and I noticed a white spot on his belly just above the anal fin. Oh My Gosh....Cinco's a girl!!! And I'm guessing her tummy is full of eggs. Duh Sam. So anyways, now that I know Cinco is a happy and healthy female I feel better, and it explains why I've never seen a bubble nest. Had to share my aha moment and maybe get a few chuckles from everyone else.
My name's Sam and I've been lurking around these boards for about a week now. I am a newbie at keeping bettas as evidenced by the following story.
My betta keeping began early this year when I decided (kind of on a whim) to purchase a betta. I had several pass on me after doing water changes (not exactly sure what the problem was, but Petco said they had been having problems with the bettas at that time as well). Anyways...I ended up with a baby betta we named Cinco. Cinco has since grown to be about 2.5 to 2.75 inches and is a beautiful, vibrant red color with lovely medium sized fins. He is so interactive and always swims up to me. He's also rather fond in letting me know when he's ticked off (too strong a filter current in new tank).
This morning I was greeting Cinco and feeding him and I noticed a white spot on his belly just above the anal fin. Oh My Gosh....Cinco's a girl!!! And I'm guessing her tummy is full of eggs. Duh Sam. So anyways, now that I know Cinco is a happy and healthy female I feel better, and it explains why I've never seen a bubble nest. Had to share my aha moment and maybe get a few chuckles from everyone else.