Betta toys

I trained Apollo and Athena to jump for food. I haven't tried it with Odysseus yet, though, and I definitely won't try it with the sorority. I can imagine all 6 girls leaping from the water and latching on like little piranahs.

 

....NAH. Wierd is when you babby talk to your kingsnake while shes eating...this is just awkward. Seems like a good time for those inspirational pics thatll get our gears grinding.

Dievient art. Iron gibbet we thank you.

HILARIOUS

 

No, this isn't wierd. Confidence boosting talks with your car while trying to coax it to start...now that is wierd!

 

My fish won't jump for food. They just look at me like I'm an idiot.

 

I talk to my car all the time. Lol. And that comic made me audibly rofl.


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Makena: My name
'95GT: My 1995 convertible Mustang GT

 

Mine used to jump for food amd stare at me like I have sprouted two heads!

 

No, this isn't wierd. Confidence boosting talks with your car while trying to coax it to start...now that is wierd!

I once talked encouragingly to my scooter, trying to coax it the last 15kms home after my petrol tank started registering empty and I was stuck at a roundabout and the traffic wasn't moving....
It worked.

 

soltarianknight - great comic!

People say often that bettas are like fish puppies - I have come to believe they're more like cats. Beautiful, graceful, definitely their own animal and constantly looking down on their owners with airs and like we're all nuts. They may be right .

Mine will follow my finger around and flare when I spread my hand and wiggle my fingers. I've also heard pingpong balls, ice cubes, hamster tubes and other items used at toys which I think is great enrichment. I must add some of these as i'm attached to my aquascape and the way it's planted it would be near impossible to re-arrange.

I've also read about using food on tweezers as lures and once they're attached to follow their stick of happines, you can lead them through tunnels, hoops and out of teh water through hoops! Not sure i'd be game to try that though, as i'd be nervous about them escaping the tank! My VT is a lazy big finned guy though, and he's content to just follow me about the room.

And I too know what it's like always being watched, although I do like it with mine. Makes typing on my computer a lot friendlier

 

No, this isn't wierd. Confidence boosting talks with your car while trying to coax it to start...now that is wierd!

I give my car pep talks all the time, including on very cold mornings! And bribe it (oh, if you can make it up this hill/through this section of traffic/home/to work/to school/to the gas station, I will wash you and get your oil change early and maybe we can even look at getting your windows fixed!). And I sit down and have serious conversations with it. your relationship with your car is important. if you don't communicate with your car, you'll never know when something isn't right with her (or him). I even pat my dash whenever my car does something particularly wonderful. I still think making toys for our fish is weird, though.

 

Bettas would be more like cats imo, dogs aI'm to please cats please for reward and only if they feel like it. Now you decide lol.

 

Lol my car is treated better than my animals. I wash him every other day and do a once over with glass cleaner every day. Fix everything ASAP, and wax it once a month
I would like to get toys for my fishies though. Maybe some caves/pipes


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Makena: My name
'95GT: My 1995 convertible Mustang GT

 

Most catfish love PVC, Now as for bettas, ive been working further on making toys. My most recent involved Putting wax papper on a rock and using a hairdryer to melt it into the shape of the rock, slathering it with adhisive and covering it in sand or gravel. This achives a natural and unique rock cave.

 

My mom talks to my car to! It's soooo funny when she says something like "look, a Bently" Then she'll say sorry, car.

 

I'm going to get these beautiful red lilly like plants that are fully aquatic for my betta Louise to rest on as soon as I get my heater. I used the laser pointer on all my bettas and only Steve didn't know what it was and got scared... what a noob!

Beat u to it!

 

awwwwww what a cutie!

 

My mom talks to my car to! It's soooo funny when she says something like "look, a Bently" Then she'll say sorry, car.

lol I apologize to my car when I check out a classic or a bike... idk, it just feels rude, somehow!

I stayed home "sick" to hang out with my bettas yesterday; wanted to watch them for signs of a disease I had in another tank before I went home for the weekend; spent over an hour playing peek-a-boo with one of them (the other is just cranky).

 

Beat u to it!

> HOW DRE U!!! He he, just kidding

 

So I was just reading how betta's get bored easily. So to give them something to do you can get toys for them. Toys for a fish?
What I read said there's a betta floating log, a suction cup leaf hammock, a mirror, and some people even out in ping pong balls.
Any suggestions?

 

Ice cubes.

 

I wouldn't suggest you use icecubes unless you have a heater other wise harm could come to you betta.
Mirrors are fun, I drew A picture of a betta and colored vibrant colors. Recca goes crazy over it.

 

I use Ping Pong balls,beads that float,mirrors,and chop sticks.

 

I got him the betta floating log, but he's not interested yet.

 

I don't know, and it depends on how he likes it. the betta log is fine, but I just think that they are bad quality and zoo med gets a lot of profit. Honestly I try not to even go to a pet store for decor/toys, after a year the paints starts coming off just from the touch! That is how mad your paint is..... GO DIY!

 

My betta completely ignored the leaf hammock......he seems to like mirrors and lots of plants. (Preferably live)

 

Try a hoop on a stick or line with a shiner at the end. its more interactive and he/she may enjoy it. Play around with your betta's personality. mine likes sneaking up on the shrimp in my bridge and just laying behind them

 

So far he's enjoying hunting the cherry shrimp I put in there. I didn't buy them for him to eat, but that seems to be the case. Only the strong ones will survive.
He loves his floating log. He loves perching in all the plants I have...he's like a bird in fish form. My little eagle fish! Hunts like an eagle and perches in the plants as if they were trees.

 

People say often that bettas are like fish puppies

So true! My mother had a beautiful blue betta named Isuzu that would twist and wiggle like a puppy whenever she went near the tank. But he never did it for anyone else, not even her husband. He couldn't understand it LOL

 

Hello. I am looking for recommendations for betta toys. My betta has a betta log, betta hammock, and a cave. What else would be fun for a betta? (He's in a 5 gallon tank, it is not planted currently, as I'm new to all of this. But there is a fake fern and 2 faux moss balls.)

I've read that they get bored. Should I switch up the look of the tank now and then? How often? Add new things for him to look at?

Thx

 

You can try creating training kits and that's just about it. I would honestly just over plant it.

 

I have a bubbler that I turn on occasionally for something different to play in. It's really too much commotion to run all the time but it's a change for them. I also like to give all of mine ghost shrimp companions. They're fast enough to avoid being eaten (usually) and nearly invisible anyway, plus they help to clean up the tank. Snails are interesting. Heck, one of mine is obsessed with the freshwater limpits in his tank! Java Moss or Subwassertang seems to be a fun thing because they can burrow into it and under it. Use your imagination!

 

Mine loved the current from the filter, he used to "ride" and "surf" it lol! I think they enjoy us being around (mine seemed to).

 

Mine loved the current from the filter, he used to "ride" and "surf" it lol! I think they enjoy us being around (mine seemed to).

Good point! I was worried about the current in the Spec V but Raz seem to really get a kick out of swimming up into the outlet and getting knocked backwards

 

Good point! I was worried about the current in the Spec V but Raz seem to really get a kick out of swimming up into the outlet and getting knocked backwards

Mine did too lol! When he rode the current to the other side of the tank, he'd turn around and go back and start again lol!

 

Mine did too lol! When he rode the current to the other side of the tank, he'd turn around and go back and start again lol!

I know! He could easily avoid the current altogether but he chooses to swim up to it. Silly fishy

 

Thanks everyone; great ideas!

Last night I took the baffle off of my filter, and he seems to enjoy it. The current is not too strong, but it looked like he was having fun swimming and playing/experimenting with it. I put the partial baffle back on today, so he wouldn't get too tired.

 

Some bettas love to play with ping pong balls

 

Watch for your betta's reaction to new things though. I had a betta who was thoroughly terrified of ping pong balls floating in his tank

 

The ping pong balls really depends on your betta,mine totally ignored them.

 

You can place a mirror in the side of the tank for probably 1- 5 minutes. This will cause the betta to "flare" and open up. Causing them to poop or the so called "flooping".

 

I just came across a post on here of someone asking about making betta toys. This is a completely foreign concept to me, so I'd love to get information about making toys for my Rekka, what type of things would be good, etc? I didn't even know they would want/like toys.