male and female fought...EMERGENCY

[SimonA]

here she is....she gets pretty mad when i put her in small places, so she was making it difficult for me to take her pictures

this gal here is the ferocious one that kicked my dragons booty! such a lil devil!

Small little nipper

 

[steppy104]

she's actually pretty big compared to my other girl....maybe the pics make her look small, but she's pretty husky

 

[SimonA]

A manly female then

 

[steppy104]

VERY manly.....even builds her own bubblenests, and highly dislikes ALL of the guys she see's. she has never gotten horny bars once.....i'd say she's a lez, but i had her with my other girl once, and she didn't take much notice to her.

 

[fourplayfishy]

she hates the little thing...

does ur cam have a little light on the top? if so then she might not like the light... try covering it with ur finger

 

[steppy104]

no light....it's just the kind of cam thats connected to the computer...a lil cheap one.

but i do use a lamp that i shine on the little cup thing so i can see her better....without the light, all you see is a black shadow

 

[GP]

I had a problem like this too. What's the tank size? Also some pics of the male status would help alot. I added a half of a teaspoon of salt in my containers and changed the water everyday, now about 2 weeks later my male is now active and flaring at the others.

 

[steppy104]

dragon is in a 10gal tank....pics of his status? i already showed pics of him....

 

[the skunk]

ive kept a female that spawned twice with the same male , but she once shredded him and he never recoverd , but ive alos been sold a female that was a plakat, i realised this when he was bulidng bubblenests, unless you have got a young male plakat ??? 1st time of heard of females buliding nests .

 

[noelberg]

skunk made a good point! you might have a young male plakat (roundtail). i'm pretty sure that females don't flare or build bubble nests.

it's really hard to tell plakats from females. and plakats will tear apart any long-tailed variety.

my King got his butt handed to him from Ming, my plakat (who jumped over the divider). he even had his face shredded pretty badly. after a melafix/salt treatment and water changes, he's healed and his tail is almost fully grown back. hardy bettas will survive a lot worse than ur guy got

 

[the skunk]

as your fish will gorw you will be able to tell if its a plakat or not, they get alot larger than ordinary females and you can tell by their features.

 

[Dwarfs]

Females flare, look for the white spot behind their ventral fins to make sure you have a girl, mine has it, but still flares at the mirror with more anger than most of my males.

 

[steppy104]

ya...she has the white spot thing.

i already know for sure that she's a girl....she just happens to be one that prefers fights over love. lol.

i asked when i first seen her build a huge nest if she was girl or plakat...already got ma answers for that....guess i just got that odd girly!

 

[xXMrBonesXx]

she looks like my female betta except mines a little darker red with a touch of blue .. until i added her to my 65 gallon my rainbow shark thought he was mr tough guy, then when i added her she calmy floated down to check him out .. flared at him a couple times then chased the poor guy all over the place lol, needless to say he lost his territory but from what goes on now i think she let him have it back and they get along fine now lol

 

[Sorrell]

Almost all of my girls build nests and flare. The top of my community female tank is almost always covered