Holy crap

[dragonlady7]

Cosmo's building a bubble nest!

(I named the fish Cosmo. He's blue and going into a giant martini glass. Cosmo seemed like a good name. If you're curious, I have the recipe for a blue cosmo memorized: 1/2 oz lime juice, 1/2 oz blue curucao, 2 ounces Citroen vodka, shake with ice, strain into chilled martini glass, garnish with lime. In my case, it will be a blue fish and some green rocks, but it's close enough. It'll keep better without the vodka.)

A bubble nest! Who feels like a good Betta mommy now! Holy crap, I guess he feels at home in the new place!! You don't see the poor little bastards building bubble nests in their tiny jars in pet stores, now do ya? Didn't think so.

*preens*

He eats from just about my hand, too. Am I a spaz? Yes.

Oh, notice the timestamp? Thunderstorm plus beagle equals wakefulness. But she ran back up the stairs to go check on Dave, and she hasn't been back down, and it hasn't thundered, so I may go back to bed now.
Just wandered over to check out what Cosmo was up to, and thought what the hell-- he's been blowing bubbles! But that's something happy male betta fish do when they feel safe and comfortable in their homes. They blow a nest hoping to attract a female so they can spawn. (When she does show up, they'll more than likely just beat the hell out of each other, but if she's in the mood and does the dance with him, he'll reciprocate, and then... they don't even get to screw. No. She lays a bunch of eggs, he fertilizes them, he picks them up and sticks them into the bubbles, and then she leaves or he kills her to make sure she won't eat the babies.)

I will not be spawning bettas (that's what breeding them is called; not saying I'd be doing any spawning personally, but I'd be the enabler. And that's just wrong.) so the nest will go unused, but I'm quite flattered that he's building one.

How much cooler is this than watching a sad droopy fish swim in tiny circles around an itty jar? It's way cooler, that's how much cooler.

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Because this is probably not worth another entry, but...

I disrupted him to do a partial water change, and he seemed disgruntled, but this afternoon he's resumed work on the nest, so I guess he isn't too upset with me. :)

Who's not a total moron with the fish?
I am not a total moron with the fish!

Hey, man, I've never kept a fish before. It's kind of exciting. He moves a lot more than the frogs.

this is from kat

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I imagine he also makes a lot less noise than the frogs. :)