he is gorgous,

 

Wow. PRETTY!!!

 

that pretty little lady is one hot mama...
dare i say if the male isnt a sibling of the female, he might be out of her league.

so you're trying to aim for metallic blacks? multicolored metallic or solid? sounds really cool. male looks like he's got some decent irridescence, maybe from a green/turquoise line. hard to really tell since he looks different in both pictures. looks like he might be non-red as well.

looking forward to what happens next!

 

I think he is a sibling. You should see her stomach, it's like a little balloon all the time. I'd have thought she was constipated but she eats well and I've seen her expelling fine enough. I think she's still a little egg laden from when he was on the other side of the divider.

 

wahooo so excited keep us updated!!! so want a pair

 

Haha! :lol: Kind of funny how you didn't expect to receive him with your order of girls, called him dag, and now you're breeding him. He's a pretty boy and I'm not a fan of crowntails. :-D

 

Well I never said I didn't want him, just that he was unplanned for. An unplanned male betta is a massive scramble.

 

Introduced the pair. She spent five minutes whooping his butt, he spent about the same whooping hers. She's hiding under an IAL and he's building a bubble nest under one that is floating nearby.

 

good luck on your spawn look nice !

 

Both are so beautiful! I can't wait to see them babies....good luck! :-D

 

He's not a very good nest builder but bless his heart he's trying.

 

They're doing test wraps now, no eggs, then she runs away for a minute and comes back, they do another sort of semi-embrace and she runs away again while he bubbles some more.

 

That was hella fast!

 

Well they've been stuck on that since then.

 

Also I have been playing this for them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA

 

A little mood music! maybe light some candles too! hehehe ;-)

 

Well he's providing the bubbly.

 

haha!! very true! :tongue:

 

As far as I can see, no progress.

 

Looks like they're wrapping in earnest now.

 

Good luck! Beautiful pair, the female especially!

 

They started wrapping when I left the house for a job interview and were done when I got home. There's a MILLION eggs in there. @_@

She also looks seriously deflated. She was like a bubble goldfish before but now she's slimmed down to a normal size. Omg.

Daddy is tending them nicely but mom is hiding where I can't get her without disturbing the nest so I'm waiting for her to come out.

 

yay!!! ..I cant wait for pics of the full nest! ...why is this so ridiculously exciting?? haha!

 

This is a portion of the nest, best photo I could get. The nest continues on and covers the underside of the IAL in the photo, about half the size of a full sized leaf. As far as I can tell, the underside of the IAL is as packed with eggs as this shot.

She seriously looks like a deflated balloon.

 

Dad is working CRAZY hard. He's shuffling around under there like he's got a fire under his tail.

 

Do you mind me asking-where did you get your female?