What Is Betta Fish?

The purpose of this Betta fish lab was to analyze the behaviors of a male Betta fish when placed in the same bowl as another male and a female, both separate. The reactions and submissiveness/aggressiveness was observed and recorded. For several minutes the two fish were in the same bowl but unable to have contact and observations were recorded. Then, the two fish were allowed to have contact and observations were, again, recorded.

The golden trout’s skin is a gradient, ranging from deep blue to turquoise to gray on its top to shimmering gold on its bottom. The two colors blend on the middle of the fish's side, a flawless inter-melting of two vibrant hues. A bright red band streaks across its middle, blood red, and bright. Around 10 dark

When I was about six years old, my older brother and a few of his friends thought it would be funny if they removed the divider between to the two betta fish we had in the tank. Bettas are very aggressive and territorial fish and like to be left alone, so the second that they removed the border, they started attacking each other. Even though they are just fish and are very small, but it was blatantly obvious that they were doing harm to each other. He later put the borders back up but a few hours later, one of them had died. I blamed it on the fact that my brother had done that to the fish and told my dad. My brother, of course, got in trouble but my dad told me that the reason why one of them died because he was too weak and could no longer

The catfish’s wide mouth comprises of the lower jaw projecting beyond the upper jaw resembling a young teenager’s under bite and teeth pads extending to the back of the mouth on both sides. Their color scheme consists of a mottled combination between black and brown and their sides usually a light pale yellow to light brown and at times even olive makes it a breeze for them to camouflage at the bottom of the dark cloudy waters they live in. Their large smooth pot-bellies often cream in color and its short and round tail fin dark as the root of an oak tree. For the most part, young aged catfish are very dark brown in color and as they mature their color scheme changes to the lighter browns and olive greens. Their long sharp spines on the back and sides of their respective dorsal and pectoral fins at times wound the hands of the anglers catching them if not wearing the suitable

Betta splendens, otherwise known as the Siamese fighting fish, is widely recognized as an aggressive species of fish, as its common name indicates. B. splendens, which is native to Southeast Asia, has an appearance consisting of a wide array of colors, ranging from varying shades of red, yellow, green, and blue. In addition, female Siamese fighting fish generally have duller body colors in comparison to males. Also, the scales of B. splendens seem to shine with different colors as the angle of view changes. It is due to the hostile nature and the brilliant features of the Siamese fighting fish that it was given the name of Betta splendens, as it translates to “splendid battler”. As a result of the rainbow-like appearance,

At the beginning of the simulation the average spot brightness was 6.35±0.97 and at the end of the simulation there was a brightness average of 18.53±1.26. There was a significant increase which supports the idea that there is a higher chance that in a predator free environment, female guppies prefer to mate with males that have brighter

The channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) are the most common catfish of all freshwater catfish that is located in various parts of the United States and a native fish around the state of Alabama. The symmetrical ray-finned black and olive colored fish is the only North American catfish with a deeply forked tail. Channel catfish spawn during the spring and summer and the average life span is around 14 years. Pimelodidae and Bagridae are ancestral bodies for the catfish including relatives blue and headwater. Channel catfish usually maintain a monogamous mating relationship that begins prior to spawning and ends after spawning is complete. The channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), relative to blue and headwater catfish, is a common freshwater fish in the United States, the only one of its species in North America with a forked tail, and has a unique monogamous relationship every spawning season.

It would seem to be a safe assumption that growing up many children took part in the cloud game, it may also be a safe assumption that adults still partake in that same game from time to time. The good old fashion cloud game, in which an individual spots a cloud and based on the characteristics that one observes and interprets those characteristics to be, the individual makes heads or tails of what it looks like. It can be kind of comical or frustrating, however, when the individual tries to get another person to see the exact same thing. The individual might start out by pointing in the air to indicate the direction one should be looking at, followed by a description of a particular attribute. Many times, the individual may not be able to pin point what the other is referring to and requests additional information or direction. Frustrated the individual may instruct the other to look again while providing addition attributes, which goes on until either, one gives up or the other has identified the cloud. In instances such as, this it is also plausible that not only is this a potential matter in which

The researchers focused their study on determining whether cuttlefish adjust their body pattern intensity with reference to artificial and natural substrate intensity under different light conditions of bright light, moderate light, low light, and extremely low light. For each set of experiments, 10 adult Sepia officinalis were confined with an artificial or natural substrate placed the floor and walls of a seawater-filled tank and was left to get accustomed to low light for 20 minutes. After those 20 minutes, a photo was taken using a flash, digital camera. The cuttlefish is then left to adapt in a set light condition with the same substrate for another 20 minutes. Following the 20 minutes, the light is turned off and a flash photo was

At New Melones, as the lake level dropped another 3-feet last week, avid fishermen were not discouraged as they launched off the gravel area of Glory Hole Point where 4-wheel drive is recommended. Graveyard shift anglers are catching trout, crappie, and catfish, using submersible lights and live minnows. Daytime anglers are finding the trout and kokanee down to the 50 to 70-foot level. Bob James, of Murphys, a frequent angler at Melones, caught a limit of kokes last week by trolling an Apex lure at 65-feet in the main lake. Bass fishing remains good early mornings and late evenings. Topwater baits such as Whopper Poppers, buzzbaits, and spinnerbaits can produce some explosive topwater action. Dark colors seem to work better at night. Catfish are always around and last week's big fish winner at Glory Hole Sports was John Wilson, of

Second, there are lots of beautiful creatures to see there. Hawaii is home to a lot of exotic and colorful marine life. The state fish of Hawaii is the humpback whale or as it is known in Hawaii, Humuhumunukunukuapua’a. Hawaii has many different species of ocean life. There are five species of amphibians, and twenty-eight species of reptiles; they are all indigenous. Hawaii has a low rate of shark attacks. The most dangerous animals are moray eels, scorpions, cone snail, lion fish, and of course sharks. There are two species of snakes in Hawaii. There is a poisonous sea snake, and a nonpoisonous land snake which is so small that it looks like a worm. One of Hawaii’s most famous insects is the Happy Face Spider. Hawaii has a lot of species of

The article “Blind Cave Fish Evolved a Shrunken Brain to Save Energy” talks about a group of fish that got washed into a limestone cave in Mexico many years ago. This fish had to learn how to live in the complete dark and survive with very limited food. The article talks about how the fish slowly lost their eyes and and the portion of the brain that works with the eyes. They explain that this happened so they could conserve energy they needed to survive. They could not use their eyes because it was too dark, so they eventually lost their eyesight then their eyes all together and that portion of their brain. Their taste and smell increased dramatically to be able to survive in this environment. Their taste buds increased and they could sense changes in mechanical pressure. Damian Moran and his colleagues say that they eliminated the circadian rhythm in their metabolism to help conserve more of the energy. Moran collected these fish, their opposites and hybrids of the two fish to do an experiment on in his lab. He

The digestive systems of whales consist of an esophagus, a compartmentalized stomach and an intestine. They swallow their prey rather than chew it. The prey is passes into the esophagus, where it is pushed toward the expandable stomach. The food then reaches the rumen, the first stomach compartment. Pre-digested food is stored in the rumen. In this compartment the food is break down by peristalsis which is the mechanical muscular movements. Then food is directed toward the cardiac stomach, where hydrochloric acid and pepsin is produced by glands to digest the food. The food then enters the last stomach compartment, the pylorus. The latter is characterized by the presence of numerous mucous glands that facilitate

One may claim that the color variation is a result of turbulence. Since turbulence is higher, (27.50-36.25 NTU) in pool one where there are many drab fish, 41, than in pool four (3.00-8.75 NTU) where there are few drab fish, 5. Unfortunately, pools three and four have the same turbidity (3.00-8.75 NTU), but different amounts of drab male fish, ten in pool three and five in pool four; demonstrating that turbidity is probably not a relevant variable, since variation of color can occur without variation in turbulence.

Furthermore, Betta fish do not create an odor. If you don't clean the tank for 1-2