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concerted attack

03.18.04 (4:19 pm) [edit]

I have ten betta girls in a 29 gallon, and I'm trying to get the tank planted. I've got hygrophila polysperma in there which is growing like gangbusters, the anubias nana gave me a little flower (awwww...) but everything else is having some problems. The corkscrew Vals I bought has just failed miserably; I don't even know if the roots are still alive, which is a shame because I pictured a really pretty stand of waving spirally grassy forest. I count the anubias as a success but not the hygro, as hygro would grow in a ziplock baggie in a dark closet.

When I was changing the water today and messing around in the tank trying to see if the Vals was even salvageable, I felt the unmistakable poke of a betta bite.

If you take a ball point pen and thump yourself with the business end hard enough so that it leaves a dot on your skin but not so hard that it actually hurts, that's what it feels like when a betta fish bites you. Fortunately, the fish don't leave a mark.

So this litle grrl betta sees this huge thing (my hand) in the tank that is clearly the territory of her and her sisters, messing around with her plants (stunted though they may be) and, to add insult to injury, not offering any food, and she decides to Take It On. This is the delight of bettas. Poke poke poke poke..a little grrl not 1.5 inches long weighing less than 2 ounces furiously attacking the Giant Pink Hand. I ignored her. UNTIL... she got five or six or her sisters involved.

They basically launched a no-holds-barred carpet bomb attack on the Giant Hand, poking and poking. One latched onto the nail of my little finger and started pulling and shaking. I felt fully gulliverized, and decided to leave the plants alone. For now.

posted by: lynne (reply)
post date: 03.18.04 (7:03 pm)

thanks for making me chuckle ;)

posted by: irishred (reply)
post date: 03.23.04 (8:47 am)

It's a darn good thing you don't raise pirahnas. (I don't think I spelled that correctly). I hope everything is going well for you there M!

posted by: SusanofPudlin (reply)
post date: 03.24.04 (9:07 am)

very funny - Gulliverized indeed.

posted by: NightQueen (reply)
post date: 03.25.04 (3:46 am)

That'll teach you now wont it?? LOL. I wasnt aware that they bite......

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