nothing fishy about betta aggression

By fishcoin
Created Mar 1 2006 - 3:17pm
Project title:
nothing fishy about betta aggression
Middle school
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Hypothesis:

We think that the red cutout betta will cause the bettas to react the most. We also think that the personality of the bettas will afect their aggression.

Materials:

4 bettas
6 cutouts of bettas (red, black, blue, white, green, brown)
tank

The Procedure:

place cutout into water w/ betta.
watch how betta reacts until it stops reacting. If it doesn't react, wait 5 minuets than stop.
rate betta -, + or ++ (++ being highest, - being lowest
reapeat each color to each betta.

Results:

red had highest reaction. conclusion is that fish can see red best.
maybe should have used more fish.


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