Bubblenesting Female...?

[RandomWiktor]

Ok. First and foremost, this fish is definately a female because she has dropped eggs before, gets the verticle stripes when she's getting full of eggs, has a prominent oviduct, etc.

However... she seems a bit masculine? I know they can be agressive, of course, but she is wildly agressive. She bites my fingers, gill flares at everything that moves and... well.. she makes bubble nests. Big, impressive, beautiful bubblnests. Puts most of my boys to shame. Is this normal behavior for an agressive female? I don't have a picture of her bubble nest as she is having a bit of trouble with rin rot from a contaminated siphoning tube (D'oh; oh well, now everyone each has their own) so I'm doing frequent water changes and treating with meds. But, I have some pictures of her. Maybe she's a species where the females are a bit more butch?

Apologies for the blurriness; my dig. camera is meant for stills only.

 

[SRC]

All 3 of the females I got from Wuv build super Bubblenests. lol, maybe they get tired of waiting for the guys to come and do it...lol (natural huh...tired of waiting on the men to do something they are suposed to do ...j/k guys )

 

[RandomWiktor]

Ah, ok. Just wanted to make sure there wasn't any health connotation to her habit, or that she was a herm or something (lol). She once got really overly full with eggs while my male had a great nest going, so I put her in to help her release (I would have throwed out the nest and eggs if it worked though because I do NOT intend on ever breeding VTs). She destroyed his nest and chased him around until I finally caught her; he was terrified Though, she did release the eggs later that day so maybe she just needed more excitement in her life.

 

[BettaMomma]

This whole story is hilarious.
I always wanted to know if females (I have only ever had males) flared, bit, chased and just generally did all the things that ornary males do.

Now I guess I know.

 

[Texaswoman]

Mine do it too. They are just little monsters They are so great though, I almost love them more than the boys, and some of them I do. They are so personable and fiesty.

 

[BettaMomma]

My home is overrun by males.
I have 2 male guinea pigs, 3 male bettas and 2 male humans.

I recently decided i'm going to set up a nice beauty of a tank for some lucky little chica bettas. Needing to equalize the estrogen level indeed!

 

[OohFeeshy]

Maybe she is descended from Boudica's betta.... although she seems to have a great personality!!!

 

[RandomWiktor]

Oh, she definately has the best personality of all the fish. (Don't tell Dickey I said that he'd be so hurt ) She's my only betta who enjoys petting as well. Though, you have to get her when she's in the mood or she'll nip your fingertips off She's like a little aquatic dog; whenever I walk past her tank, she follows me around, jumping up and down out of the water. Even when she fell very seriously ill with a parasite infection (she must have been harboring them when I got her because they just.. popped up out of no where one day), she still struggled over to the glass to see me every time I checked on her. I adore her to no end. I just wanted to make sure she wasn't "funny" because of the nesting.

 

[RandomWiktor]

Oh man. I should take a picture of this.

Now that the fish are adjusting to living at home instead of with me (they're staying with my parents over spring break since I'm going away), they're also adjusting to living "next door" to other bettas. Sealink is now on the counter next to Tiny Tim, the same betta whose nest she destroyed. She has been swimming around all day with all of her fins fully fanned out, flaring and putting on quite the show. She built a bubble nest in the corner of her tank that is facing his. He, however, is not very interested, and mostly "runs" away every time she swims over to flare at him. So, my female is in other words manlier than my male...