The See Through Betta Fish

[@laurigardner-rhodes7125]

The best fish learning channel I've ever watched.

[@TheDave333]

Wow! Thank you so much, I really appreciate the kind words. 🤗

[@robyn6521]

I appreciate your reminder to check the video is 1080p because it makes such a difference when viewing your incredible, detailed, beautiful videos!

[@TheDave333]

Thanks for noticing! It's the little things that matter. 🤗

[@PotooBurd]

I miss my old bettas but my heart isn’t ready for the heartbreak. ❤️‍🩹 love those personable fish

[@TheDave333]

It is difficult to lose one of our little friends. Well, there's always a tortoise. . . They live forever, but not as lively as the fish. 😁

[@benininho]

My fav fish channel is The Dave!

[@oregonsnob31]

Same!

[@TheDave333]

I love your style. 🤗🤗🤗

[@audrameyer9558]

This was very informative. Seeing the eyes of the guppy fry in their mom's belly was very cool!!

[@TheDave333]

Thanks. Glass belly guppies are amazing.

[@moonpleco5083]

Masterpiece, detailed insight what betta have inside him, how fish organism works. Your videos deserve to be incorporated to biology lessons at school someday.

[@TheDave333]

Thank you so much 👍

[@FishCapadesProductions]

Amazing as always! ❤

[@TheDave333]

Thank you kindly. ❤

[@em-zo7vy]

Thank you for another beautiful, informative, and well-narrated video!

[@TheDave333]

You're very welcome! 🤗🤗🤗

[@corinne2721]

Your awesome and thanks for another amazing video...🤗

[@TheDave333]

You're very welcome and thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. ❤❤❤

[@nicksweeney5176]

*You're

[@oregonsnob31]

As always, enriching content and an easy watch!

[@TheDave333]

I like the way you think.

[@chisaquaticvibe6524]

Great job, Dave!

[@TheDave333]

Thanks Chi. 🤗

[@Staggo_L]

Most interesting. 😮 Thanks.

[@TheDave333]

My pleasure. Thanks for watching. 😁

[@SalamanderFangskin]

1:37 I agree! - Ramón

[@TheDave333]

Thanks! - Dave

[@thedoujinguynico7315]

How many tanks do you have ? Can you make a video of all your tanks and fish? Also can we get updates on the fish from previous videos? Like the butterfly fish the top view in those videos was amazing i think the videos were called ( today in the fish room 1,2 ) when is ep 3 ?

[@TheDave333]

At the moment I have 22 tanks up and running. I do plan on putting together a fish room tour video at some point, but who knows when I'll get to that. I have a lot of footage sitting around that I need to put together. . . The butterfly fish are alive and well, no issues, but no babies either. The hillstream loaches are still going strong and breeding. I'm phasing out guppies, working with apistogrammas, breeding lots of bristlenose, and getting more neocaridina shrimp.

[@markfranklin8831]

Really interesting video. Thanks for sharing

[@TheDave333]

My pleasure, thanks for watching. 😁

[@cesarcalle1225]

Dude your channel is amazing I don’t know how you’re not getting more views and subs

[@TheDave333]

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! 🤗

[@Baddaby]

Bettas are so funny once you realize they're just thumbs with some fluff padded to it 😂

[@TheDave333]

Thumbs with fluff I like that! 😁

[@Baddaby]

@TheDave333 I'll add to it, Angry thumbs with fluff 😅

[@butterfish-g9f]

Just curious, how many betta fish do you own?

[@TheDave333]

At the moment, 4

[@louisrobert339]

​@@TheDave333 curiosity kills but are you professional scientific or just a passionate hobbyist ?

[@TheDave333]

I am a fisheries biologist, as well as a passionate hobbyist.

[@ChadGardenSinLA]

I❤ cellophane Bettas. In California we have gloBettas again (from Asian imports). Cellophane is the clear layer on any fish needed to see GloFish “glow”. GloBettas from Asia are marble, so each one has its own unique patchwork of fluorescence.

[@TheDave333]

I love the variety of fish that are available to us. We're very lucky. 🐠🦈🐟

[@acvaristicacudichis]

Yes, a did learn something new.

[@TheDave333]

That's awesome! Mission accomplished. 😁

[@moonpleco5083]

Swim bladder position in betta is strange a bit. It seems like preparation for easier vertical swimming ability. When watching how betta swim in water we can see that their position is usually directed a little bit upward.

[@TheDave333]

Yes, it's true. They are oriented towards the surface where they feed and keep their eggs.

[@scrunglenut6222]

perhaps the swim bladder issues come from eating too much floating food, and they change the buoyancy of their swim bladders to compensate so much that it puts stress on the organ?

[@TheDave333]

That's a very interesting idea, and it makes perfect sense. :-D

[@MattKeepsFish]

Another reasons why bettas shouldn’t be sold as they are. We used to feed them twice weekly, 5+ pellets all at once. I think it was that, plus constantly low temp that caused the constant swim bladder issues :/

[@TheDave333]

Yeah, it's a bad combination. over-feeding + slow metabolism due to cold water = digestive problems.

[@nicksweeney5176]

2:03 Eewwww...!!!🤮 Creepy 'n gross!

[@TheDave333]

Thanks for adding to the conversation Nick! 😁

[@nicksweeney5176]

@TheDave333 Oh, why, you're welcome, The Dave.😁 I absolutely live to enhance the conversation with my commentary contributions, under your magnificent works. It's aallll about what KZbin calls: "The Engagement Game". Honestly, The Dave, I've long considered us to be engaged. I assume you've felt the same thing, all along. Well, anyway, you're welcome and I'll always be pleased to drop my most worthy contributions below your Cinematic Fishterpieces.

[@TheDave333]

I appreciate your input and your irreverent commentary. The algorithm and I thank you. 🤗

[@nicksweeney5176]

@TheDave333 My ... what? My "input"? How very mechanistic and transactional. So, that's it; 'ey? My "input"? Just you, the Almighty Algorithm, and my "input"? Is this the new Holy Trinity of our age? Here we live, on this mad Planet of The App's, worshipping this shiny, new-&-improved Holy Trinity? Our technocratic dominion, wherein we race (and erase) our lives away, on this short track, striving from absolute nowhere to everlasting nothingness? This, all, while Big Mommy Karen chants to us her Lullaby of Obliteration? This is a grim picture you paint, a despairing message you send, Mr. The Dave. I certainly hope you're happy!!

[@TheDave333]

I'm not sure where this slightly abusive digital relationship is headed, but I can assure you that you are more than just ones and zeros. . . We're practically online friends for crying out loud. 🤗🤗🤗

[@nicksweeney5176]

She, she, she... Ate all the eyeballs of her unborn unborn babies?!😲

[@TheDave333]

Yes, Nick that's exactly what she did! She just gobbled them up like candy. She's a heartless mother of a fish.

[@nicksweeney5176]

@@dinosaurb Well, that's not what The Dave said!

[@nicksweeney5176]

@TheDave333 I knew it! I KNEW it!💡🧠💡 This scene should've been in your Mature Audiences Only Halloween Horror Palooza! Thanks for the emotional scars, The Dave; now I'm gonna be nervous for a week, while I work this all out in my counseling sessions. I hope you're happy, now.

[@TheDave333]

He knows his fish, he knows better. He finds himself funny.

[@nicksweeney5176]

@TheDave333 Fired!!💥 Get back to your Fish and film more astonishing content!! You are NO LONGER my representative!

[@Knutahh]

Mother of god I'd love it if you could just speak normally instead of in your "presenter voice". It's unbearable to listen to.

[@em-zo7vy]

I love this voice. It's very soothing and positive. ❤

[@TheDave333]

I'm evolving as we speak. . .

[@nicksweeney5176]

​@TheDave333 If that's true, stop talkin' to him!! Don't you ever even "evolve" one little tittle or jot!! Don't you do it, The Dave!

[@moonpleco5083]

​@@TheDave333 please, do not evolve. Your films and narration are so unique. Be like horseshoe crab - evolution goes next to them, species emerge and go but horseshoe crab still proudly exist! Don't bother yourself with trolls .

[@TheDave333]

That's really great advice. Thank you. ❤❤❤

[@stoneysscapes7544]

That's my favorite fish and I will always have 1 in all of my aquariums unless I have some inhabitants that prefer to live there lives without .....like us Humans usually have a lot of experience with the good and the not so good . Look at all the aquariums like a Judge Judy Courthouse and I can just imagine what she would say to the Defendents that have failed to be..... that list of negligence would take all night to write and that's what I love about watching your VIDEOS. You have always made highly informative videos that are easy to see what is the best way to create a successful aquarium which is not possible without the desire to learn and being able to have patience with the majority of the time in order to create a balanced ecosystem with or without a Betta ❤️🤍💙

[@TheDave333]

Thanks, I really appreciate it! 🌼🐝🌴