D7~14 busy

I had neglected Jessica for few days and wasnt able to feed it for 3 days. It resulted in disappearing of the bubble nests, but after nurturing him well,
tbubbles had reappeared (:


I have not been able to blog for the past week I have been busy with
exams and my girlfriend x)
today marks day 7 of our conditioning project.

Jessica seems to be responding to not the visuals but, whenever I get near by
he seems to get excited and come up to the surface of the water.




Jessica staring at the chessboard visuals.




Jessica says : Good Morning sunshine x)


It has been two weeks since Jessica has joined the family, I should clean the tank
and give it some clean water this wednesday.

the water seems to be getting dirty :(

D-5~6 Classical Conditioning

(black thing behind is my heater replacement)

Classical Conditioning is where you present a subject with a neutral stimulus followed directly by a significant stimulus (or reward, ex.food).

This should result in the subject to behave a certain way, when presented first with a neutral stimulus. here is a good example:





Through some googling ,I found out that fishes too have 5 senses of :
1. Vision
2. Smell
3. Hearing
4. Touch
5. Taste

Apprently fishes have superb vision. Although it may look like theres a mirror effect going on if you try to see the side of the tank from the inside, fishes can see clearly through the tank. You could test this statement by putting your head inside the tank , or you can just take my word for it :D.

Procedure:

1. For my conditioning experiement I have printed out a simple checker/chess board image to use as the visual (neutral) stimulus image is available for download below



2. As for the significant stimulus I have here some frozen bloodworms
their favorite treat




Hypothesis:

If conditioning is sucessful, when Jessica or (Sica as his more masculine short form name) is visually presented with the checkerboard all around his tank, he should be
comming up to the surface of the water to eat his food.

I will be conducting the experiement starting today and will be posting
updates starting tomorrow :D

Photographed by WSK Canon SX120 IS 6-60mm

D-4 Bubble Nests

Photographed by WSK Canon SX120 IS 6-60mm

Bubble nests started to appear on the surface of my fish tank
These bubbles mean that your betta fish is happy to be your fish!

I haven't been able to see much activity of Sica today beacuse I was out all day
But in general it seems to be adapting well to its new home as we can see alot of bubble build up on the surface of the pool.

Last night I have ordered an aqua plant and clean up crew (clams , muscles & snails)
they should be arriving in about 2-3 weeks .

Live plants are useful because :
1. they provide hiding spots for your betta fish
2. they create oxygen for your tank and betta fish
3. they make awesome decoration for your fish tank

clams,snails,muscles will be useful for keeping your tank cleaner , as they feed off
your fish waste and moss created in your tank.