breeding wild imbellis

[PitGurl]

My pair of guitar smaragdina come today. Unfortunately there was some confusion with my mahachai pair and they didn't make the last shipment. The seller offered me a refund which I decided to take over waiting another 2 weeks. Right now I think I'm just going to work with one species.

I'm going to condition the pair for 2 weeks and then they'll be going in the spawn tank. I'll keep a spawn log for them. There isn't much info on the guitar strain and you don't see them that often which is why I want to breed them. They are slightly different from the regular smaragdina. They live in moving bodies of water such as streams, they have longer ventrals, they're brighter colored on their fins and the pattern on their caudal is more pronounced.

[VictorP]

That's really cool! I have a pair of golden smaragdina.

[Setsuna]

i hope i get the imbellis tomorrow. im going to go pick them up from julie tran (the transshipper) since she live in the same city as me. i'll post pictures if i get them tomorrow

[Setsuna]

The couples are here. They was so scared on the trip here that they lost both thier colors. Imma give them time to recover and i'll take pictures to show you guys and start the project from there on wish me luck

[Hallyx]

Originally Posted by VictorP

That's really cool! I have a pair of golden smaragdina.

I'd really like to see pictures of them. Thanks.

[Setsuna]

i dont have pictures of my own yet but heres video of them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwqU_9hIS9w

[Setsuna]

After hours of observing my wild imbellis i learned alot. Imbellis are much more friendly. Wild bettas likes low light tanks and Males will only chase females but they wont bite them(or maybe its just my pair). They are also much easyer to breed then splendens due to the fact that males wont bite the female till they sometimes die or hurt real bad like splendens. I had my 2 imbellis for only 2 days and the male already have a big nest up unlike splenden males they need to be conditioned and see a female to motivate them to build a nest. I also learned that wild bettas like planted tanks more then regular betta jars. So if you have any wilds plz add some plants to thier tanks they will be much more happy

[blueridge]

You are so lucky to have wild bettas! Good luck breeding!

[Setsuna]

Originally Posted by blueridge

You are so lucky to have wild bettas! Good luck breeding!

Im planning to buy another pair of imbellis again. this betta type is so good looking that i just need another pair

[Setsuna]

good news the wild imbellis are breeding at this moment. i recorded a short video of the wild imbellis breed. todays date is 10/16/12 and time is 2:00pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw-3QV8HnW4