Update on Xiaolong
Jul. 31st, 2012 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marina_bonomiOur little dragon is doing well, he is active, curious and eats like a wolf, were I to feed him as much as he likes he would be as bloated as a puffer by now.
He doesn't like it when I do the weekly water change, it makes him nervous, but he recovers quickly with the help of some of his favorite food.
I have noticed a couple of interesting things, even more interesting to me since, in my opinion, pet fish are often considered to be little more than decorative items:
He has definite tastes. He loves his dried red mosquito larvae, likes a lot the betta food in flakes and absolutely loathes the betta food in pellets, a couple of times I tricked him into eating the first pellet (he gulped it down before realizing what it was), but he invariably spits the second one out and that's it.
Second, and this one was really stunning to me: when I point in the direction of a piece of food he has missed, he invariably turns in that direction and searches until he finds the food, he doesn't stare at the finger like my dog or cats usually do, he looks in the direction I'm pointing.
Third, as I suspected, a small aquarium with a single betta works really well as mosquito trap. It's not expensive, it's eco-friendly, it's decorative and it works, what can be better?
He doesn't like it when I do the weekly water change, it makes him nervous, but he recovers quickly with the help of some of his favorite food.
I have noticed a couple of interesting things, even more interesting to me since, in my opinion, pet fish are often considered to be little more than decorative items:
He has definite tastes. He loves his dried red mosquito larvae, likes a lot the betta food in flakes and absolutely loathes the betta food in pellets, a couple of times I tricked him into eating the first pellet (he gulped it down before realizing what it was), but he invariably spits the second one out and that's it.
Second, and this one was really stunning to me: when I point in the direction of a piece of food he has missed, he invariably turns in that direction and searches until he finds the food, he doesn't stare at the finger like my dog or cats usually do, he looks in the direction I'm pointing.
Third, as I suspected, a small aquarium with a single betta works really well as mosquito trap. It's not expensive, it's eco-friendly, it's decorative and it works, what can be better?
