xstitch_allykat
01-11-2007, 02:12 PM
I have two male betta fish (different tanks). One (spongebob) is happy and swims around all the time and even follows my fingers (not in the water, hovering above) when I am about to feed him, (I kinda play follow me games with him), and my other fish (squirdward) is the total opposite.
He just sits in his grass all day and seems somewhat depressed. He isn't as hyper as spongebob and he doesn't even flare or notice spongebob when we removed the game case in between their 1 gal tanks. While spongebob looks like he is having a seizure..lol
Squirdward has a floating issue but I don't feed him and it goes back to normal and lately he has been laying on his side on the rocks and at the top of his tank and he just kinda lays on the thin leaves of his grass. So I am thinking he is lonely and depressed.
I clean their tanks once a week and today was cleaning day but I have noticed something that made me scratch my head on the bottom of squidwards' tank. Laying on the rocks are 2 cloudy balls, they look like fluff or lint but that's impossible because he had a lid on his tank and nothing can get in, to me they look like they could be egg-layers.
I know betta fish do the bubble nest thingy and lord knows squidward has no problem making those he pretty much fills the tank in a week, but I am stumped about this. Walmart had him labeled as a male and he has big fins but he doesn't stretch them out. Could they have mislabeld him and the cloudy balls on the bottom of the tank are egg-layers? And if he is a male then what are the cloudy balls on the bottom of the tank?
Ally
P.S. Here is a pic fo the balls, I tried to get a pic of squidward but he kept hiding in his grass and I couldn't take the pic.
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3627/cloudyballsgk7.th.jpg (http://img247.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cloudyballsgk7.jpg)
He just sits in his grass all day and seems somewhat depressed. He isn't as hyper as spongebob and he doesn't even flare or notice spongebob when we removed the game case in between their 1 gal tanks. While spongebob looks like he is having a seizure..lol
Squirdward has a floating issue but I don't feed him and it goes back to normal and lately he has been laying on his side on the rocks and at the top of his tank and he just kinda lays on the thin leaves of his grass. So I am thinking he is lonely and depressed.
I clean their tanks once a week and today was cleaning day but I have noticed something that made me scratch my head on the bottom of squidwards' tank. Laying on the rocks are 2 cloudy balls, they look like fluff or lint but that's impossible because he had a lid on his tank and nothing can get in, to me they look like they could be egg-layers.
I know betta fish do the bubble nest thingy and lord knows squidward has no problem making those he pretty much fills the tank in a week, but I am stumped about this. Walmart had him labeled as a male and he has big fins but he doesn't stretch them out. Could they have mislabeld him and the cloudy balls on the bottom of the tank are egg-layers? And if he is a male then what are the cloudy balls on the bottom of the tank?
Ally
P.S. Here is a pic fo the balls, I tried to get a pic of squidward but he kept hiding in his grass and I couldn't take the pic.
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3627/cloudyballsgk7.th.jpg (http://img247.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cloudyballsgk7.jpg)