Bettas Are AMAZING

I've been hankering after a siamese fighting fish for ages and finally bought one a few days ago. He's royal blue with red and purple highlights when he moves and he's called Frank.

In the last few days I have discovered how much joy these wonderful fish can bring. After a bit of posturing he settled in fine with the endlers and seems to really like his new home. He's got plenty of hiding places and I also put some indian almond leaves in for him, which I'll obviously replace every now and then. Its made the water a bit yellow but I actually don't mind that too much.

I didn't realise exactly how characterful bettas are. I swear he actually recognises me, is this even possible? When I walk by the tank or stop to look he comes right to the front but he doesn't seem to do the same with anybody else, maybe it's just chance but I'd like to think not. 

This may sound silly but when I was doing a bit of research into bettas I found a u tube clip of a girl who had trained her betta to do tricks so I thought I'd give it a go. Whoever said fish have a short attention span and can't remember things are VERY wrong.

I feed Frank tiny amounts of food twice a day, one bit at a time and before I open the tank lid I gently tap on the sides twice and each time I present him food I tap twice too. I feed him in the top right corner and he swims over when I tap now and seems to have learned he can lie on the glass thermometer in the tank and be fed from there. A couple of times he's actually jumped out the water a short way to grab the food. I have to say he reminds me of a cat a bit. When I siphon out any dropped food he swims down to see what's going on and chases the little bits of gravel that rise and fall in the siphon. I think he's an amazing fish!!! I love my Frankie boy already, how daft is that? 

He is a nosy little guy for sure and I'll keep that very much in mind. He's just a plain ole bettas and looks a lot like the one in the piccy.

Hmmmm, sounds familiar 

Congrats on your new fish! Bettas are great little fish. My Betta Carra is lovely, he's very lazy though! When I feed my fish I have to take off then lid so he knows what's coming. I often lift the lid to check he's OK since a lot of the time he likes resting on top of his cave or plants and I panic because of my previous bettas health... But I think Carra is just a bit lazy!!

Sure Franks not a "cat" or "dog" fish?

He made me laugh tonight, I was crumbling flakes into the tank for the endlers and he was trying to jump out the water to reach my fingers. I took pity on him and put a small bloodworm on the end of my finger and held it above the water and he jumped up and grabbed it 

I'm so much in love with this fish. I spend many a happy moment nose to nose with him and I'm teaching him follow the finger now.

Next time my neice and nephew come to visit they'll be gobsmacked!