aSnakeLovinBabe
03-24-2009, 08:49 PM
naughty Bluela, she's really in trouble tonight!! So it goes like this. I keep and occasionally breed betta fish. I always keep a male and a female in my snakeroom side by side in bowls on the table, for fun. The rest are in the dining room. The hex cage is located directly next to that table, and occasionally, when I am feeding those guys the two bigger females often will slide down onto the table to where the dish of salmon jello is and help themselves. I swear, they really do know to go there and get it!!! Well tonight, I was feeding those guys their salmon jello and they were extra excited about eating. I was trying to contain the male enough so that the salmon jello would not fly all over the place when he grabbed it because i already had enough of the stuff all over my hands, my face, my shirt and pants. (aggressive feeders and salmon jello do NOT mix haha). I was also at the same time trying to contain the two females OTHER than Bluela, my big florida blue girl, because they just would not stop trying to flop out of the doorway in their over-zealous attempts to eat. Bluela had just chugged down a huge piece and I saw her start sliding down for the bowl of food on the table, so i guided her head to it, and go back to dealing with the male who has now just grabbed salmon jello, rocket launched out of the cage and onto me and made a dash for the other side of the room, smearing salmon jello on the carpet the whole way.
So, I catch him, put him back in the cage and scold him for being so hyper, and then turn to see BLUELA with her HEAD in my female betta fish's bowl, SWALLOWING the female betta :eek:, salmon jello slop swirling all around in the water from her mouth. She did this all SO incredibly fast!!! She had to have used her vision to pinpoint and quickly strike the betta from the surface. A whole ten seconds and in that time she was able to decidedly ignore the salmon, a feat in itself for such a pig of a snake, and then shoot over to the fish bowl and scoot up and in for a gourmet snack. My guess is that the female betta picked the wrong time to display for the male and probably flashed around enough to catch her attention. So now I'm out a female betta fish!! I have others, but sheesh!!! Poor fish :rolleyes::p
So, I catch him, put him back in the cage and scold him for being so hyper, and then turn to see BLUELA with her HEAD in my female betta fish's bowl, SWALLOWING the female betta :eek:, salmon jello slop swirling all around in the water from her mouth. She did this all SO incredibly fast!!! She had to have used her vision to pinpoint and quickly strike the betta from the surface. A whole ten seconds and in that time she was able to decidedly ignore the salmon, a feat in itself for such a pig of a snake, and then shoot over to the fish bowl and scoot up and in for a gourmet snack. My guess is that the female betta picked the wrong time to display for the male and probably flashed around enough to catch her attention. So now I'm out a female betta fish!! I have others, but sheesh!!! Poor fish :rolleyes::p