Hey y'all! I'm a happy owner of three bettas, but I've noticed something really interesting. This is more of a trivia question than anything, but I'd love to know because I couldn't find much about it online.
I have three Bettas: Puyo, Bonbon, and Isola. I live in a 4+ family but I'm the only one who cares for them. My other family members sometime comes to look at them occasionally but I've noticed something weird/cool/interesting. Bonbon's always been a little more of an angry boy then the rest (and the biggest), but he always flares up when he sees my mother, my dogs, or other people, but he's never done that to me. When I come close to the tank, they always approach the tank (probably because they know it's food time and pre-emptively come to the surface). Do they recognize me as a person? Like how maybe dogs recognize their human?
I know for sure they know me as the magical food god that rains down food and the one that will occasionally stick a giant scary gravel cleaner to get angry at, but I find it weird how they always usually flare at everyone else but me.
Also something interesting I do, I usually feed my bettas by using a toothpick, dipping it in their aquarium water and using the water to sticky a few pellets on the top (so I can control how much I give them). I've accidentally trained Puyo (who I've had for over half a year now) to follow the toothpick in the water xD Puyo always rushes to the surface upon seeing the toothpick and will always follow it around. The other two don't, which makes me believe that Puyo is pretty smart compared to the other two.
Anyways here's pictures of them! Puyo is really lazy and loves squeezing himself into any hole he can find so he was sorta easy to photo. Isola is the same, but he likes to take his time to swim around. Bonbon is usually the same as Isola, but was running laps around the aquarium as if he knew I was taking a picture of him and wanted to make it as difficult as possible, but he's a good boy most of the time (maybe he just didn't like my phone xD). So forgive me that Bonbon's picture is really blurry. Puyo is in a 15g tank and Bonbon/Isola are in 10g tanks! No tankmates for the long run; did try cherry shrimp with Puyo once but he ate them all
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I just wanted to talk about my Bettas because I really do enjoy them (I once stared at them for an hour just enjoying their presence) because anytime I bring this up in normal conversation with non-fishkeepers they kinda don't really get it.
I have three Bettas: Puyo, Bonbon, and Isola. I live in a 4+ family but I'm the only one who cares for them. My other family members sometime comes to look at them occasionally but I've noticed something weird/cool/interesting. Bonbon's always been a little more of an angry boy then the rest (and the biggest), but he always flares up when he sees my mother, my dogs, or other people, but he's never done that to me. When I come close to the tank, they always approach the tank (probably because they know it's food time and pre-emptively come to the surface). Do they recognize me as a person? Like how maybe dogs recognize their human?
I know for sure they know me as the magical food god that rains down food and the one that will occasionally stick a giant scary gravel cleaner to get angry at, but I find it weird how they always usually flare at everyone else but me.
Also something interesting I do, I usually feed my bettas by using a toothpick, dipping it in their aquarium water and using the water to sticky a few pellets on the top (so I can control how much I give them). I've accidentally trained Puyo (who I've had for over half a year now) to follow the toothpick in the water xD Puyo always rushes to the surface upon seeing the toothpick and will always follow it around. The other two don't, which makes me believe that Puyo is pretty smart compared to the other two.
Anyways here's pictures of them! Puyo is really lazy and loves squeezing himself into any hole he can find so he was sorta easy to photo. Isola is the same, but he likes to take his time to swim around. Bonbon is usually the same as Isola, but was running laps around the aquarium as if he knew I was taking a picture of him and wanted to make it as difficult as possible, but he's a good boy most of the time (maybe he just didn't like my phone xD). So forgive me that Bonbon's picture is really blurry. Puyo is in a 15g tank and Bonbon/Isola are in 10g tanks! No tankmates for the long run; did try cherry shrimp with Puyo once but he ate them all
.I just wanted to talk about my Bettas because I really do enjoy them (I once stared at them for an hour just enjoying their presence) because anytime I bring this up in normal conversation with non-fishkeepers they kinda don't really get it.
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