How Do Bettas Make a Siamese Fighting Fish Bubble Nest?
If you’ve cared for bettas for quite a while, then it’s more than likely you’ve seen a Siamese fighting fish bubble nest. Less experienced people may simply have written it off as a mass of bubbles that just sits at the water surface (or, far worse, a sign that your water is dirty and needs changing-or as a sign that your betta is ill!), but I can assure you that it is nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite as a matter of fact. Because as you’ll see, a nest of this sort is a sign that not only is your male betta very healthy, he is actually in the prime of health-and is, as a matter of fact, all ready to breed. Firstly, to understand these nests you have to think back to the origins of the betta and the environment in which it lives. Bettas are fish that evolved in the little creeks and ponds and rice-paddy waters of Asia. This kind of environment is hardly renowned for being clean or particularly clear-and in some cases it may even be quite stagnant. This is the reason why bettas and
