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Post by charliem177 on May 25, 2011 12:32:13 GMT
or lack of rather, unfortunately this is not scientific study of how bettas brains work but rather my half giant male (currently in a tank on my desk) seems to thing my coffee percolator stood by the tank is a potential mate and is going mad building a bubble nest and flaring lol ....
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Post by Roxane on May 25, 2011 19:15:46 GMT
Charlie,
Can he not see his own reflection in the glass of the percolator?
Roxy
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Post by fuzzynicki on May 29, 2011 15:05:21 GMT
My male PK is highly intelligent lol. His old tank was facing the tv in my living room. He would be stationary mid water facing the tv. I would try to get his attention and he would totally ignore me. I turned the tv off and he started swimming around again rapidly!!! He was peeved that I'd interrupted his viewing lol.
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Post by nataliey on May 29, 2011 15:32:51 GMT
My male PK is highly intelligent lol. His old tank was facing the tv in my living room. He would be stationary mid water facing the tv. I would try to get his attention and he would totally ignore me. I turned the tv off and he started swimming around again rapidly!!! He was peeved that I'd interrupted his viewing lol. LOL, a couple of my males did that when i had a few tanks near the tv! I know that the saying curiousity called the cat should also be used for bettas, as i had a female that got so curious about the bubbling volcano in her tank that she disappeared and when i found her she had her head stuck in the side of the bubbling volcano!!
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Post by fuzzynicki on May 29, 2011 15:44:45 GMT
Mickey Smith (my PK) vanished for a couple of days and I thought that maybe a horrid kid we'd had in may have had something to do with it :'0( He was in a Fluval Chi and not really anywhere for him to hide. I put a couple of bino corys in tank as I thought if he was hiding anywhere he would sense them and come out. Nothing. Then on the third day I was cleaning tank and out he popped! The only place he could have been was trapped under the centre piece in the chi,- but he wouldn't have been able to get to the surface and surely would have drowned? He definitely hadn't been out for the two days as the tank was right by me and no way would I not have seen him come out! ??
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Post by Roxane on May 30, 2011 20:14:27 GMT
Nicki,
That's exactly what I was on about in the buoyancy board. Bettas mainly use their gills for oxygen, using their labyrinth as a secondary respiratory organ.
Roxy
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Post by fuzzynicki on May 30, 2011 20:19:09 GMT
Thanks Roxy! I read that thread after writing on this one. A very interesting new fact that I have learnt!
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