This is the third attempt to get a spawn from a pair from my previous spawn. The male is a HM that is so dark blue he is almost navy. I paired him with a spawn mate female HM royal blue.
Last night I saw the male swimming up and down a lot, so I took a closer look. The fry were hatching and raining down and the male was trying his best to keep them in the nest.
Unlike his father, he made a bubble nest with some duck weed in it under the cup. I can't say how many yet, but it looks like a good number.
Enkil, that sounds very nice, but since I want to retire in a few years, I'm doing my best to get all my credit cards and lines of credit paid off once and for all.
BettaQi, thanks on the behalf of my fry.
Unfortunately, my numbers took a drastic drop. I don't know what happened, the heat is 80 degrees, the water gets changed every other day, they got fed banana worms, micro worms, and decaps, but I could only find one today. I guess it's time to try for a new spawn.
Did you over feed possibly? mine die off like that if I tend to over feed, but its usually only in the beginning couple of weeks. So sorry to hear you lost them.
I'm so sorry to hear that tpociat! Are you sure there arent others hiding right now? If not does this mean your going to cull that one? Or are you going to continue raising him? I'd still love to see how the little one grows as you try another spawn
The larger ones just died, the smaller ones just stopped growing. I have snails, so that is where the bodies went. Yesterday when I got home from work, I couldn't find the one that was there before. I'm pretty sure they are all gone.
I've started conditioning my all my adults so I will have several I can choose from.
I would like to spawn the salamander pair I got from Karen. The last time I tried with those two, they ignored each other. I hope they will change their mind after being conditioned for awhile.
Much to my suprise, I was getting ready to clean out my spawn tank to attempt a new spawn, and there was one baby! He is really small, all I can think of he was eating microscopic stuff in there, because since I thought they were all gone, I wasn't putting any food in there.
Aww you should keep him! Vanboy did that he was cleaning his spawn tank and found 2 fry they are healthy at the moment! I would keep lots of plants and a well used sponge filter in his tank so he has lots of micro organizms to feast on! Good luck!
Yes you did. I was planning on cleaning the sponge filter that was already in there, but now I will wait until the fry is big enough to move. At first he/she looked a little weak, but not any longer. My daughter and I both decided to keep him/her even if there is nothing show worthy about this fry. Who knows? He/she may be the next show winner!
Sad news. My daughter did a water change, I added some IAL tea to the water. The little one died yesterday. We were careful, only changed 1/4 of the water because we were afraid that a sudden change in the parameters would be bad for the little one, but I guess the small change we did was still too much for him/her.
Damm..........that sucks but you can always try again dont give up till you have a tank load of frys fighting, chasing, and flaring it will be fun to watch. Good luck again fellow betta keeper/breeder
I've cleaned out my spawning tank, added IAL tea, waiting for the water to get warm enough, then the fun begins, I hope.
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