A Little Video Of My Female Vt

[soritan]

I was toying around with my camera a ways back, and came up with a couple tiny videos of my tanks and pets. It's not an impressive display of flashing and flairing, but I rather like her. Just today, I got off my *** and downloaded a program that converted MOV to AVI, which also greatly reduced the size (I removed the audio, compressed it, etc).

http/www.soritan.info/vids/uta_betta_001.avi

I also took a video a ways back of my ADFs, not sure if it's proper to post it here, though.

Uta, my female betta, has gotten very colorful since I first got her. When I first got her, she was pure white. Now, she's got blue and red fins, and her entire body actually shimmers in the light blue and red as well. Doesn't show up very well in photos or videos. She's actually the most impressively colored betta I've owned so far, I suspect this has a lot to do with her tank's conditions -- warm, with lots of tannins, blood worms on a regular basis along side pellets, stable water parameters, etc.

I think she just ate in the video. *squints* Can't remember. She still bubble nests in the 10 gallon she's in, and I'm starting to suspect that she's also putting eggs in there, as I put my head in and discovered a few opaque white dots inside the foamy nest she built. I haven't noticed them fouling the water, or anything, but it's probable that her and her tankmates are eating them.

Also, if you decide to visit my site, please forgive the layout. It's unforgiveably slap-dash. Eventually I ought to put some effort into it...

 

[Ethos]

I can't view it.
It might just be me though
My computer is silly sometimes.

Just because, my bettas usually aren't very photogenic.

 

[soritan]

Hm. Are you getting a codec error, or a permission error?

 

[splashluff]

It won't work for me, either. It said "no suitable decompressor could be found", and it probably is just the software I don't have... >_<

That is crazy, though, that your girl builds nests! How insanely cute!!

 

[soritan]

Aaah, you guys are having codec errors, then. I have lots of weird codecs installed on my computer, since I watch a great deal of foreign films, as well as anime.

I have MOVs available, if enough people actually want to see her wiggle about for all of 8 seconds, I can upload it.

Yeah, she started with the nest building when I used to put her bowl next to my male's bowl. They've both since been upgraded to small tanks, so it's impossible for me to give them visiting rights. She's really active. My only qualm with her is she doesn't seem as interested in me as my male is -- my male always swims up to me when I go to his tank, she couldn't care less. Of course, when I feed her, I have her complete attention.

 

[liz2]

Aaah, you guys are having codec errors, then. I have lots of weird codecs installed on my computer, since I watch a great deal of foreign films, as well as anime.

I have MOVs available, if enough people actually want to see her wiggle about for all of 8 seconds, I can upload it.

Yeah, she started with the nest building when I used to put her bowl next to my male's bowl. They've both since been upgraded to small tanks, so it's impossible for me to give them visiting rights. She's really active. My only qualm with her is she doesn't seem as interested in me as my male is -- my male always swims up to me when I go to his tank, she couldn't care less. Of course, when I feed her, I have her complete attention.

She is lovely...not so sure about the frog though!

 

[soritan]

She is lovely...

Thanks. She's so much more.. shiney, irl. The low quality mov I took of her just didn't capture her "shiney" very well. She's just your standard issue pet store VT, but I do like her. I've toyed with the thought of putting a sorority in there, but I don't think I want to go through all the effort. Since the females are as territorial as the males, I just don't think I feel like courting trouble, you know?

...not so sure about the frog though!

Heeey! I like my frogs!

I call them my "three blind mice".

 

[timmystood]

I'm getting a codec error

 

[soritan]

Aaaw, man. You guys are making me want to re-encode it! What? Are you telling me that none of you have the latest X-vid installed?

Probably one more, "I can't see it!" and I'll just give and re-encode it. I honestly took it a granted you all had the same, well muscled, codec pack installed on your computer as I do.

 

[Joby]

She's grogeous

Ooh I quite like the frog but have never been tempted by them myself although my 11 year old constantly points them out to me at the lfs as he really wants one. In his dreams

 

[timmystood]

Still cannot see it

 

[ron1]

She is lovely...

Thanks. She's so much more.. shiney, irl. The low quality mov I took of her just didn't capture her "shiney" very well. She's just your standard issue pet store VT, but I do like her. I've toyed with the thought of putting a sorority in there, but I don't think I want to go through all the effort. Since the females are as territorial as the males, I just don't think I feel like courting trouble, you know?

...not so sure about the frog though!

Heeey! I like my frogs!

I call them my "three blind mice".

had to watch a few times to notice the frog!!! how observant am i???

 

[Silverlady]

Still cannot see it

Ditto.