The two male bettas are too tired to flare at one another.
So they're just hanging out kind of near one another, kinda eyeing one another, nearly motionless but with their fins as extended as they can manage with a minimum of effort.
Shirley, on the other hand, has discovered the cure for cancer in her boredom at being totally ignored. She's over in the corner with her laboratory all set up and her goggles on and so on. (OK, so she's just swimming around, but still.)
So they're just hanging out kind of near one another, kinda eyeing one another, nearly motionless but with their fins as extended as they can manage with a minimum of effort.
Shirley, on the other hand, has discovered the cure for cancer in her boredom at being totally ignored. She's over in the corner with her laboratory all set up and her goggles on and so on. (OK, so she's just swimming around, but still.)