That is such a beautiful movie! I've never seen anything like that! And your tank looks great, too. Is that male betta from the little garden that hangs on your wall?
Congratulations! They are lucky to have someone knowledgeable and experienced helping them along. Keep us posted!
I have a very nice male betta upstairs and a healthy female betta downstairs but I have never put them on the same floor, let alone into the same tank. I would be too nervous that something would happen to one of them.
However, my baby killies are growing. I don't know how many there are, but there are a few at least and they're different sizes. I'm slowly lowering the gh in their tank. The babies are on 3 kinds of baby food plus brine shrimp. I don't ever see them eat but they've got their parents' huge eyes that follow my fingers as I feed them.
She's an older betta that i got in a trade for a white worm starter culture....
Being that she's older she shouldn't have spawned so I am really lucky. I was about to give up when I looked over and saw them in the embrace.
Yes he is the same guy from the wall garden! I figured he deserved to breed at least once.
These two actually treated each other very nicely durring the whole spawning operation. No torn fins or any damage of any kind! There was alot of chaseing but no real fighting. I put her into the tank in a one liter plastic bottle cut in half for two day's before I realeased her into the tank. After about 30 hours of nothing happening but chaseing I recaputred her and put her next to the bubble nest in the plastic bottle again. Fed him and her. Then after about 4 hours released her again..... about an hour later is when they went at it. The first few spawns he didn't collect the eggs.... They just sat on the bottom. Then they took a brake and went back at it with a vengance. After each spawn she would cruise the bottom and eat any eggs he didn't pickup. then swim backup to the nest and spawn again. Was awesome to watch had my face pressed aganst the glass.
Me being me.... I'm not following the instructions that are out there for spawning betta's. I.E. The tank isn't bare bottom. The tank is cycled and has alot of plants and moss with more moss being added after the fry are free swimming. Hopefully providing them with enough food. We'll see what happens. I'm going to feed the fry microworms... then switch to bbs and decapped brine shrimp.... fingers crossed!
With any luck i'll get some combtail betta's
The Combtail Betta is a fringe-finned type that usually arises as a result of a cross between a ST (singletail, non-fringe betta) and a CT (crowntail, fringe-finned betta). Instead of having the minimum 33% reduction in webbing that designates a true Crowntail, the Combtail has a slightly spikey appearance.
Breeding CT x HM has also given rise to the development of what is commonly called a HALF SUN -- Combtail Halfmoon. This is a very beautiful type.
that info is reposted from this website
http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/bettafish/tailfinforms.php
This is practice for the killifish.... First killifish eggs should be ready to hatch on the 20th next month.... The hardest to raise fry are the eggs that are up first....
we'll see if i'm ready for the challange.
what range are you going to keep the GH at?
