{"id":2045,"date":"2010-02-21T08:49:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T13:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2010-02-21T08:49:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T13:49:57","slug":"betta-brooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/2045","title":{"rendered":"Betta brooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not all bettas are bubble-nest builders (in fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibcbettas.org\/smp\/species\/index.html\">not all bettas<\/a> are the long finned fish you see in little tiny bowls at the pet store). I have a trio of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibcbettas.org\/smp\/species\/macrostoma.html\"><em>Betta macrostoma<\/em><\/a>; they are, like many stream-dwelling bettas, mouthbrooders. Yesterday the female went from having a rounded belly to being quite slim &#8211; at the same time, the dominant male&#8217;s throat expanded. Keep your fingers crossed &#8211; this is attempt #2 for them and I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if it took a couple more attempts for the male to get it right.<\/p>\n<p>Apologies for the poor picture quality. I was trying to just snap a couple quickly; I didn&#8217;t want to raise too much of a ruckus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4028\/4375127143_222b5b2b90_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4028\/4375127143_222b5b2b90.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4064\/4375877276_b1e110f863_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4064\/4375877276_b1e110f863.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all bettas are bubble-nest builders (in fact, not all bettas are the long finned fish you see in little tiny bowls at the pet store). I have a trio of Betta macrostoma; they are, like many stream-dwelling bettas, mouthbrooders. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/2045\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[126,127],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creatures","tag-betta-macrostoma","tag-mouthbrooder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-wZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}