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Last night I was laughing so much at the betta and discus dynamics, I got tears in my eyes. It is so funny.
When I came back home yesterday, both fish were eagerly waiting at the front next to each other to be fed. I thought, wow, they've become friends. Then I proceed to feed the discus first, on purpose, so the betta is hungry enough to scoop left overs. As I dropped food, all of a sudden the company of the betta wasn't so desirable so the discus shot for the betta. The betta jumps on top of a leaf hiding, the discus pushed the leaf up with its nose to get him off it...The betta ran away.
After that I did a water change and then stood looking at the fish. The discus was standing looking at me and I then see the betta ambushing him from behind, flared gills, eyes almost popping out of his sockets, really angry looking fish approaching the discus at full force and I thought....that's it, he'll attack the discus...but then thankfully for some reason he stopped as fast as he started just short of the discus tail. The discus never saw this one coming...
Then I decided to feed again and both fish lined up at the front. I started feeding the discus first again but this time the betta wasn't having any of that....He stood there next to the discus flaring all the time while I was dropping bits of food. He was in fact flaring at both my fingers and the discus and I as laughing aloud. He thought he's a big man, lol. Then as he figured that this sort of behavior wasn't getting him any food, he swam under the discus and very cheekily started stealing his food under his nose...really clever little fish
Apart from that, yesterday I saw some poop coming out from the discus, half stringy half black and he seemed to be in pain while passing it as he was pacing until it came out. But at least there's some food moving through his gut. I also tried daphnia yesterday but he wasn't interested. So back on blood worms, I figured that if I cut them in half he's able to swallow them. I also think that yesterday evening he had brightened up a notch as I was able to see the stress lines clearly where a couple of days ago he was almost black. I think he was once upon a time a yellow fish with blue on the fins. But to be honest, he is so poor looking still, its unreal that he's alive.
There he is as of yesterday
When I came back home yesterday, both fish were eagerly waiting at the front next to each other to be fed. I thought, wow, they've become friends. Then I proceed to feed the discus first, on purpose, so the betta is hungry enough to scoop left overs. As I dropped food, all of a sudden the company of the betta wasn't so desirable so the discus shot for the betta. The betta jumps on top of a leaf hiding, the discus pushed the leaf up with its nose to get him off it...The betta ran away.
After that I did a water change and then stood looking at the fish. The discus was standing looking at me and I then see the betta ambushing him from behind, flared gills, eyes almost popping out of his sockets, really angry looking fish approaching the discus at full force and I thought....that's it, he'll attack the discus...but then thankfully for some reason he stopped as fast as he started just short of the discus tail. The discus never saw this one coming...
Then I decided to feed again and both fish lined up at the front. I started feeding the discus first again but this time the betta wasn't having any of that....He stood there next to the discus flaring all the time while I was dropping bits of food. He was in fact flaring at both my fingers and the discus and I as laughing aloud. He thought he's a big man, lol. Then as he figured that this sort of behavior wasn't getting him any food, he swam under the discus and very cheekily started stealing his food under his nose...really clever little fish
Apart from that, yesterday I saw some poop coming out from the discus, half stringy half black and he seemed to be in pain while passing it as he was pacing until it came out. But at least there's some food moving through his gut. I also tried daphnia yesterday but he wasn't interested. So back on blood worms, I figured that if I cut them in half he's able to swallow them. I also think that yesterday evening he had brightened up a notch as I was able to see the stress lines clearly where a couple of days ago he was almost black. I think he was once upon a time a yellow fish with blue on the fins. But to be honest, he is so poor looking still, its unreal that he's alive.
There he is as of yesterday