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 Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:30 pm
Savage Destiny Aquabid.com biggrin And now that I've ruined your life with that, I'll go back to discussion, haha. Yes, we made betta splendens more aggressive, but it was never a peaceful fish to start with. Who are we to start messing with them again to make a more peaceful fish? Even the wild types are still aggressive fish, just less so.
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 6:51 pm
Vanilla eXee Savage Destiny Aquabid.com biggrin And now that I've ruined your life with that, I'll go back to discussion, haha. Yes, we made betta splendens more aggressive, but it was never a peaceful fish to start with. Who are we to start messing with them again to make a more peaceful fish? Even the wild types are still aggressive fish, just less so. I guess I'm just a purist. I loathe seeing people mess with how an animal behaves just to make them easier to care for. I feel the same way about bully breeds being dog aggressive- you try to start breeding that out, and you start losing part of what made you like the animal in the first place.
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:08 pm
Savage Destiny Vanilla eXee Savage Destiny Aquabid.com biggrin And now that I've ruined your life with that, I'll go back to discussion, haha. Yes, we made betta splendens more aggressive, but it was never a peaceful fish to start with. Who are we to start messing with them again to make a more peaceful fish? Even the wild types are still aggressive fish, just less so. I guess I'm just a purist. I loathe seeing people mess with how an animal behaves just to make them easier to care for. I feel the same way about bully breeds being dog aggressive- you try to start breeding that out, and you start losing part of what made you like the animal in the first place.
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:47 pm
Savage Destiny ...They're not meant to be peaceful community fish. They don't need or want the company of other fish. We run into problems when we try to force them into situations they're not meant to be in, i.e. a community tank... That said, I've actually had a betta that thrived in a community environment, and when that community was taken away from him, he became so depressed that he soon died. He started out with a few Endlers in a 10 gallon. I got a bit bored with the Endlers, shipped them off to Nilla (who they are now making babies all over the place for LOL), and when he got depressed, I bought him some Neon Tetras, who he didn't like (because they weren't *his* Endler's I guess, and because they send out a prey-vibe, which I learned afterwards), so I sold them too. He then became really depressed, and died just a few days later, before I could get him new "pets." This fish was completely and other wise healthy, other than getting depressed when he didn't have other fish to interact with. I've also heard of a few other cases similar to this, though not to this extreme.
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