Weird Stuff Bettas Do

So I'm pretty sure we've all seen that video of the fish that repeatedly swims into this man's hands so he can throw him further into the water, and then he swims back again. Regardless of why it did that, I want to hear more. Post your stories of the funny, interesting, and just plain bizzare stuff that your Betta fish does so we can all enjoy a good laugh!

My story is about my Betta who sits on my Desk at work, and hates my laptop power cord with the burning passion of a thousand suns. Every time he sees it, he gets super aggressive and does that puffy thing that Male Bettas do when they're mad. It's kinda funny, but the real funny part is that I have to literally hide the cord from sight so he won't keep fixating on it. Maybe he thinks it's another Beta, or a snake of some sort, but regardless, it gives me and my students a laugh when I forget to hide it.

Another story was told to me by a friend. She said that her family owned a Betta fish that was invincible. Because it was transparent, her little brothers wanted to see if it would change color if they put food coloring in the tank. They did, and when they changed out the water, the fish was still colored! Apparently having had enough, the fish started trying to escape. My friend was once doing the dishes, and she felt something wet hit her hand. The Betta had jumped out of the tank and hit her in the hand! She was able to get him back in the tank, and despite his desires to see the ocean, he lived for a long time. Buying a cover might have had something to do with it though. Apparently, he had been watching Finding Nemo and knew that all drains(Might) lead to the ocean, but what he didn't realize was that the drain he was trying to escape through was the one with a garbage disposal. Luckily, he never found out, because he never got that far.

Now I wanna hear all your stories! The crazier, the better!

 

I have two bettas. Odin and Ares. Odin is obsessed with snails. He doesn't attack them, but flirts with them almost. He's never struck them, he just puffs up and dances around them like he's trying to impress them. I have a bunch of baby Mystery Snails in my 60 that he just loves. Every time one slips by, he's gotta get all flustered. He's also obsessed with attention. Loves when my hand is in the tank. He's gotten in the habit of swimming to my hand and letting me touch him gently. He seems to enjoy it. He's very peaceful. Love him dearly.

Ares is still a baby, so he's still growing. He's much more aggressive though. He's hyper active while Odin is much more laid back.

 

Bucky Barnes is my betta fish. He goes bananas for blood worms. when ever I drop a few into his tank he pauses, like he is getting ready to pounce than jumps and seizes it with his mouth. its hilarious

 

My two boys are nippers. Every time my hand is in either of their tanks, they do their best to eat my arm. Matilda, my female, thinks she's a shrimp. She follows them around and tries to pick algae off of the plants and driftwood. She's the sweetest betta I've ever had and she'd be an amazing community fish if I had the space.

 

This is a good thread- bettas are such interesting characters! My male betta Django absolutely LOVES me. He will eat from my fingers and he will drag his fins across my finger when I put them in the tank. He is definitely a big softy.

I have a female betta who jumped her temporary bowl while cleaning her tank. She was out for maybe 20 minutes. I thought she was for sure a goner, but with careful she rebounded and all her fins grew back. She and her tank mate, blue, another female betta absolutely love each other. They sleep together at night, in the same little house, and they run bodies a lot. It's actually kind of funny. I love seeing their attachment to each other

 

Helped my mom scape this tank 3-4 days ago...


The Betta name is Baron and he is a blue and red crowntail... he is just now starting to explore the little caves and canyons. He loves to flair at everything and look at his reflection in the little glass stones at the bottom of the tank.

 

I don't have bettas but I have a Bolivian Ram that hates snails on his favorite plant he hangs out in most. He'll charge at and knock off any snail that winds up on his plant. Then he'll scoot them away from it once they're on the ground. His home is a snail free zone. He'll leave snails alone if they're anywhere else in the tank.

 

My betta once I turn his light off in his tank will go straight to his indian almond leaf in the back by the heater and lay there for a lot of the night, haha.

 

2 Bettas with such different personality :
Tremclad,(Tremmy) a sort of double heart tail crown/marble, is a really shy guy. He used to be startle every time somebody put something in front of his tank(used to be in a 10 on a table now he has a 20 long on a tank stand) and he use to hide most of the time, but know he really his himself! He like to take picture and even do 'pose' for me, he will go back to his skull cave and go out from the eye and then strike a pose for me, and he can do that as long as i'm watching him he's so cute!! My other one, Montana (Monty) his a lover boy who thinks he is a corydoras. He hang out with them all day long, even sometimes sleep with them in the clay pot, and when I go in a clean or feed he always come to 'flirt' with my hand, I can gently pet him and he goes rigth inside it and laid there.... he's so sweet!

 

My betta likes to lay against the hair grass I have in front of the filter inlet. He waits for things to come by that might be edible

 

My favorite is when bettas stay in mid water just moving their little Pectoral fins (Ones by gills) But yet they don't swim anywhere... just moveing those fins for nothing xD

 

I have an empty 10 gallon and all the equipment I need to set it up and you guys are making me want to set it up just to get a betta now. Darn you all

 

I have an empty 10 gallon and all the equipment I need to set it up and you guys are making me want to set it up just to get a betta now. Darn you all

Welcome to my world with 12 spots for bettas but my parents can't let me use them. Painful to stare at a empty 10gallons and 5 gallons and 2gallons in your room.

 

My bettas like to scavenge for food and that means digging through the gravel. But they do it even if there's no food.

 

This isn't exactly along the same lines, but I've had Horik over 2 years now, and just a couple months ago he started coming out of his cave to say hi. I didn't see him eat for 2 years (he must've, I'm sure, but I never saw it!). He spent all his time in the cave. I'd walk into the room and he'd take off. But then a couple months ago, I came downstairs in the morning and he swam over to the side. Surprised, I dropped in a pinch of food, and he went after it with enthusiasm. Next morning, same thing. Now he begs for food in the morning and at night, and he'll swim over to keep an eye on me occasionally.

Rose, my little female, will hover around her snail (Mickey) and stare. Just...stare. Like she's trying to intimidate him. The other day, I caught her picking at the driftwood that's in the tank. She's also bopped my hand occasionally when I'm cleaning.

Not a betta, but my biggest cory (Siggi) and my BN pleco will lay on the sand and stare at each other. I can't tell if they're having a staring contest, a face off, or holding some sort of meeting, but they just lay there and stare for the longest time.

 

This isn't exactly along the same lines, but I've had Horik over 2 years now, and just a couple months ago he started coming out of his cave to say hi. I didn't see him eat for 2 years (he must've, I'm sure, but I never saw it!). He spent all his time in the cave. I'd walk into the room and he'd take off. But then a couple months ago, I came downstairs in the morning and he swam over to the side. Surprised, I dropped in a pinch of food, and he went after it with enthusiasm. Next morning, same thing. Now he begs for food in the morning and at night, and he'll swim over to keep an eye on me occasionally.

Rose, my little female, will hover around her snail (Mickey) and stare. Just...stare. Like she's trying to intimidate him. The other day, I caught her picking at the driftwood that's in the tank. She's also bopped my hand occasionally when I'm cleaning.

Not a betta, but my biggest cory (Siggi) and my BN pleco will lay on the sand and stare at each other. I can't tell if they're having a staring contest, a face off, or holding some sort of meeting, but they just lay there and stare for the longest time.

I love that! That is so funny! People who say fish are boring pets obviously have never had one.

 

My dearly departed male Betta was scared of his reflection, wouldn’t flare like most. He’d see the mirror, run and hide behind an anubias leaf and peek around the corner to make sure the demon is gone.

 

My female betta will nuzzle up to the frogs, tilting her body as a sign of submission. Then she'll grab a bloodworm and leave them in the dust. She's such a burn artist!

 

I have an empty 10 gallon and all the equipment I need to set it up and you guys are making me want to set it up just to get a betta now. Darn you all

Why not?!!! Bettas are so beautiful! A nice one with a personality, or maybe a baby!

 

Chillin in the weeds...

 

Why not?!!! Bettas are so beautiful! A nice one with a personality, or maybe a baby!

It's definitely happening now. I'm currently visiting family but when I get back home it's on. I've got 25 lbs of pool filter sand, a filter, extra heater, extra light fixture albeit low lighting, and plenty of plants in my 55 and 20 gallon I can trim from to plant the 10. Now to source a new betta....Gosh darn multI tank syndrome!

 

Chillin in the weeds...

He's beautiful!!

 

My boy likes to sleep on the ledge of the filter as opposed to his lead hammock. He also does tricks he knows how to swim through hoops and jump!

 

My Benny uses my Mystery snail like a bloodhound. When the snail smells food like a shrimp pellet, he starts to cruise around looking for it. Benny will follow him and even sometimes wrap himself around the snail's shell. Then when the snail finds the pellet, Benny will try to steal it. The snail has learned to fold his body around the pellet while munching it so Benny can't get it. On the few times when Benny finds the pellet first, he will station himself , with fins spread, between the approaching snail and the food. He always gives way though. He never nips at the snail even when it has it's feelers fully extended. It's like the snail is his pet hunting dog. It's funny to watch.

 

To be honest I didn’t see anything from my male betta Jeff that I call it wired or funny though he has this problem that he likes to catch and sever my shrimps legs and then leave them to die ( I call that sickness )But I have one from my sorority. During the first days of my sorority I noticed that one of my kuhlI loaches is resting under a rock and his tail was out in the open. One of the females ( Violet ) saw this and went to it. She came close and then she nipped kuhlI loach tail. The kuhlI loach darted from under rock and swam like crazy around the tank. I'm not sure fishes can laugh or feel it but I laugh at this very much.

 

As soon as I turn on the light, I ALWAYS find all my females huddled together in front of the tank, waiting for food. It's like clock work. God, I love them to death... It's so cute.

 

My betta hardly ever flares. I can occasionally get him to flare with a mirror, but that’s it. Also any time I come near the tank he comes over to see me

 

Maybe I can hide behind my own tail....

 

Chillin in the weeds...

So cute! I love him!

 

The first betta I got, when I started keeping fish again about 5 years ago, was fond of sleeping half outside the water. The first time he did it, I freaked cause I thought he'd gotten stuck. Nope. He just wiggled his way back down into the water, looking annoyed that I disturbed his rest. One of his favorite spots was on top of the thermometer, and I was lucky to get a pic one day before he noticed.




(You'd think he'd like the betta leaf instead, but no...)

 

Mine prefers to hang out under the betta leaf and peek out

 

Not real funny, but one of my bettas, Lucas, tends to swim around like a junkie needing a fix. He will be zooming around his tank then just flops onto his betta hammock! Very much reminds me of watching our teenagers flopping onto the couch

 

My plakat has 12 snails in his 20 long, three of them are mostly out of the water all the time so I don't really count them...so I guess he has 9 snails....
ANYWAYS, out of ALL of those snails..he hates just one of them. It is specifically my only zebra nerite, all my other nerites don't get bothered at all. But Zeb (the snail)...he gets to much flare in one day from Master Kogha (the betta) it's absurd. Then he gets all angry and darts around the tank, comes back to flare again, then darts again! Rinse and repeat this for like five minutes! I don't know what Zeb did to him.
Other than that my kid is just a crazy psycho bonkers fish. He has no chill. I have never seen him sleep. Like...ever.
He also scavenges and bites things off the gravel, glass, and sometimes snail shells. Don't know what it is he sees.

 

Not a betta story.... but I used to have an Oranda goldfish and the only room I had for his tank was right at the end of my bed, where my head was. Every single morning for his whole life he woke me up to feed him by spitting at me. I'd literally have water hitting my face and I'd look up to see him mouthing the surface of the water. He'd also turn around and thrash the surface with his tail to make noise. He was an early bird whereas I'm not... Hugo was a silly boy. He's the blue guy in my profile pic.

 

Not weird but my baby high fives,fist bumps and swims through my hand.

 

Not weird but my baby high fives,fist bumps and swims through my hand.

How is that not weird! we need videeoooo

 

I have 2 females in a 10 gallon divided and they've gotten so used to me that I can put my finger an inch over the water and they jump and give me a little nibble or kiss. They both get excited when I approach the tank and they swim side to side frantically wanting me to give them food.