I wanted to wait until the fry were at least a week old, but something has come up so I figured I might as well start a thread and post everything here.
They spawned while I was at work (2/8/2011). I was so upset I missed it. Watched them for almost an hour the night before and nothing. When I came home I saw Brick guarding the nest and Tina off in the corner with a few nips in her fins. Sure enough, there were eggs in the nest.
Few pics of the pair and set up. Pair is from Aquastar71.
darkmoon: i have no idea but mine only grew an inch and he is in my fluval edge. they are really easy to take care of. they eat more algae then plecos and stay smaller.
blueeyed: do you know where bergen county is. i live in hasbrouck heights. do you breed?
That's the same set up I have mine in, they also took a few days to color up. It might take yours longer to adjust because of the food change but they should settle in by the end of the week or so.
You can only buy atison's betta pro through the International Betta Congress or on Aquabid. Petco/Petsmart and lfs do not sell it.
Oh and NIB, you almost had grandchildren already. One of my black copper girls wants to spawn like now. I had the father's brother in a floating jar in the tank where I am keeping the definite female fry and apparently my little black copper jumped in there with him for a time. I walked upstairs to find a gigantic bubblenest and the little girl right under it. Luckily, the male had jumped out of his container in all his excitement so they hadn't spawned but man, that was a surprise! I know they are technically old enough to spawn but I'd rather wait a bit lol But maybe... just maybe... Ignus and this little copper might fall in love...
Oh and NIB, you almost had grandchildren already. One of my black copper girls wants to spawn like now. I had the father's brother in a floating jar in the tank where I am keeping the definite female fry and apparently my little black copper jumped in there with him for a time. I walked upstairs to find a gigantic bubblenest and the little girl right under it. Luckily, the male had jumped out of his container in all his excitement so they hadn't spawned but man, that was a surprise! I know they are technically old enough to spawn but I'd rather wait a bit lol But maybe... just maybe... Ignus and this little copper might fall in love...
Yep, definitely! I just haven't decided on a pair yet. I have 9 fry; 3 black fire males (Ignus-Rosetail, unnamed SD-HM, unnamed and needs time to grow out), 1 marble female, 1 cambodian black fire female, 3 black copper females and one unidentified... I'll either cross Ignus with a black copper female, like the one that already wants to spawn, or I'll match up one of the other 2 males with the black fire female (she has too much branching for an OHM male like Ignus but would help a male with less branching). I love the father's brother but he has some serious RT so I don't think I can breed him.
I might breed my black copper male with either a black copper or black fire female once the male grows out. I was a little worried at first seeing all the other males growing out so fast that I was doing something wrong, then I saw the photo of your younger male and wasn't as worried any more XD
I've started feeding all my Bettas mosquito larva yesterday along with what I've been feeding them (Pellets and frozen brine shrimp). They seem to love them and I wonder if the extra protien will speed up the fin development in the males.
My females are doing awesome together, they chased and nipped a little and during the first day I had to take one out the largest female because she was being to aggressive. I put her back when everyone else relaxed and it worked much better. When I put the veil tail in today I took out the bully again, and left her out until everyone else started getting along again before putting her back.
The female Bettas are so adorable! I didn't have my other female for very long and these girls are too cute. They are growing so fast so I put my finger in the water for size reference. They take thawed brine shrimp right off my finger so they all rushed over and stared looking for food. sorry for teasing you girls.
The little blue girl on the right is the veil tail I put in, she's so adorable.
(Sorry for the horrible glare on the glass from my flash)
I'm beginning to think that most if not all of mine are female. Chunk-chunk (which is what I call the chunky marble with SBD) is the only one that looks male but if his SBD doesn't improve I'm not sure I'll be able to breed him.
I have two big females that I was hoping were male but every time I look at them my head screams "GIRL". We'll see I guess.
The stressed ones. The one on the left is the black fire one and the one on right is a black copper. the black fire will get a little colour sometimes.
Little Black copper guy. Stressed out as usual lol. He's the littlest one and he's been stressed since i got him. but he's doing a lot better!
I'm naming him Socrates if he is male, lol. I can't tell.
This one was the first one to get colour.
The black copper from above and my other black copper are flaring and showing off at each other constantly! its so cute!
Okay now this thread is making me have regrets. I wish I could have kept some of these fry longer, but at least I know they have good homes.
@smellesfishie, I remember him, he used to be Fuego’s flare partner. Wow, he has changed a lot. How is Fuego looking?
@russalka, my husband saw Ron and asked why I sold him. Now he thinks he needs to help me pick out which fish to keep because according to him, I don’t have the eye!!!
@DM, that is too funny, if he is anything like he’s brother, get ready for a huge spawn.
@1fish2fish, we may need to do some trading, it appears that all the black coppers I held for myself are males.
@copperarbian, your females look great! I can’t believe how good they look. When did I ship them to you?
@Kato, I'm very interested in how the one with a red head will turn out. Definitely going to keep track of him.
I was also wondering if you had any black copper/black fire males left you wanted to sell since so many of mine turned out female I have room for a couple, although that may go down to one after tomorrows trip to petco lol. Also one of the black coppers I was so sure was male is actually a female... she just has longer fins then some of the other girls lol and I absolutely love the girls, they are so totally adorable every time I walk over they come to front of the tank and stare at me... actually they all do that, but when it's a bunch of little bettas all together it's extra cute XD
Also here's another pic of my black copper, nothing has really changed since the last photo update, but he is such a cute fish I can't help but post another pic lol
I also named him Kamina, just.... 7 more fish's to think up good names for lol
how are all your fry doing?
one of mine seems to have passed away last night :/
almost none of them have much color though.
how do you all do your water changes?
In the 2.5 gallon where I had two I would put them in the little cups I got from Petco and do a 100% water change then float them for a while before adding a little water, then a little, more. Then I poor out have the water from the cups into the sink and refill it with the water from the aquarium until it's completely full then tip it sideways under the water so they can swim out at their own pace.
Mine are all 'jarred'. I try to do 100% water changes every day, but I work full time so I may skip a day. Lately it's been two days in a row, skip one day, then two days in a row. Not sure why that keeps working out that way. Haha.
Anyway I use a bigger Tupperware bowl and gently pour them into it, rinse the jar with hot water, and refill with aged-declorinated water. Then I used my hand to scoop them back up and put them in the jar. =3 That's it really.
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