[Alienchick017]

I have 2 pairs that I got from Karen and last week I decided I would go for it after 2 weeks of conditioning Romeo and Violet. The spawning went great, they were very gentle with each other but he chased her off early(she was still full of eggs) and then about 2 hours after I removed her he had eaten all the eggs. I left him in there for 2 days hoping maybe he had moved them or at least a couple survived but there were none so I decided I would finish conditioning my other pair(Valentine and Rose) and try with them. They started spawning at 8:00 pm on the 15th and today there are fry :-D
I'm still afraid to get to excited after what happened before but as far as I can tell Valentine is being a really good dad.
Here are some pictures of Valentine, Rose, the nest with eggs, some of the eggs after he moved them and tried to give me a heart attack, and the fry.

 

[littlegreen]

Ohhh, what BEAUTIFUL parents! : ) I'm sure that Valentine is being a great dad. Their offspring are sure to be GORGEOUS.

 

[Karebear13]

cute couple!

 

[Martinismommy]

Oh my gosh! I'm so excited for you...I had to chuckle because the sibs I have here are such babies to me no where near ready to spawn (or so I thought) lol......I don't usually spawn them this young because of showing but it is nice to see they spawned for you!

Good luck with the babies...The parents are looking lovely!

 

[vilmarisv]

I thought the same thing Karen did LOL! I have a sibling pair and I think if them as such babies! It's great to see this line going... maybe I'll spawn mine someday too

 

[djembekah]

oh man. Karen breeds such amazing fish! you have a lovely pair, cant wait to see the babies grow!

 

[lvandert]

lol the same thing happened to me with my first pair, lol. I'm reconditioning a second male with the same female.

 

[bettasusa]

Beautiful! These guys remind me of my 1st import pair I had gotten several years back. Sadly they did nothing for me, but I can see where I may be able to find more YAy!

 

[Alienchick017]

Thanks everyone
I wish my camera took better pictures so I could put some up of the fry today. There are a bunch of them right close to the front glass but when I take pics they are just blurs and Valentine let me know loud and clear earlier that he didn't want me pointing my camera at his babies by getting one and taking it all the way to the back of the nest after just one picture and I definitely don't want to stress him out. I'm hoping that I can get some decent pics of the fry when they are free swimming and they aren't blending in with the nest.

 

[tpocicat]

Such wonderful parents! I can't wait to see what the babies look like. Congratulations.

 

[Alienchick017]

Here are a couple of pics of the fry last night before I went to bed. I noticed them under the bowl and snapped the pics really quickly. Today it looks like there aren't as many fry but I'm not sure if its because there are a lot that are free swimming and its hard to tell or if its because he got tired of chasing them and started snacking. I went ahead and took him out even though I had planed on taking him out tonight and even though there is already infusoria in the tank I added some more hoping that they will all keep full belly's. I can see the infusoria when I shine a flashlight on the glass and when I was looking earlier a fry swam up and ate one:-D

 

[Bettas Rule]

Great looking parents! Good luck with the spawn! Lots of pictures please! lol

 

[Alienchick017]

Thanks, I'm going to try to get some more pics up soon.
I'm worrying about how icky the bottom of the tank is. I think its mostly algae so I added the snails today but there is also brown stuff that I think came from the duckweed. I tried counting the fry that I could see and I got to 40 but I know there is no way to know how many there are right now.
Earlier my husband sat down and studied the fry for a very long time and then said," There are a lot over in the back left corner... I think they are having a meeting.." He said it like they were planning world domination lol.

 

[Alienchick017]

Update

Here is a video of the fry from a couple of days ago. They are really hard to take pictures of. I spend a lot of time over at the tank watching them. I've actually seen them "yawn" like adult Betta's do and I love how there little bellies turn orange after eating BBS. Some of the fry are only about half the size of the others and I haven't seen the smaller ones eating the BBS so I am still adding infusoria hoping that they will grow. I had an incident a couple of days back when doing a water change and trying to suck the stuff up off the bottom.. I didn't realize that there were so many fry hiding in the bottom and had to go through two 2 liter bottles worth of water getting the babies out and floating them back in the tank as soon as possible and the 1st bottle took a little while(probably about 20+ fry) so the 2nd one got chilly and even though I floated the little ones in a cup for a long time before putting them back in a couple of them didn't make it probably due to the stress and temp change.
When I shine a flashlight on the fry they already have different color shines to them... is that normal at this age?


http://youtu.be/GrTLEiver4E

 

[EvilVOG]

my male of my current spawn ate a ton of eggs and i still wound up with a ton of fry.

 

[Alienchick017]

Pictures

Here are some pictures. Please excuse the bottom of the tank, I always end up with lots of unhatched BBS eggs and this was right before a a cleaning.
The fry are doing pretty good so far. How can I keep the air humid in a tank with a hood/light? There is no moisture on the glass and I would use plastic wrap but I'm afraid the light will melt it, any advice?

 

[Alienchick017]

Almost 2 weeks

The fry are doing good so far. They will be 2 weeks old tomorrow. I just finished filling the tank tonight and will start daily 25% water changes tomorrow and weekly bottom cleanings. I had some pond snails hitch hike into my tanks and in the spawn/fry tank they are reproducing like crazy.. they are eating my wisteria and I don't know how to get them out other than smushing the new babies(I don't have the stomach to smush the adults)
Here are some pictures. I tried taking some with a flashlight shining on them so you can see the iridescence.

 

[Alienchick017]

Most of the Pics didn't show so I am trying again.. sorry

Its still not working so here are the links.. maybe I'll figure it out eventually lol

http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/6887818640/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/6887818356/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/6887818210/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/6887818210/

 

[lvandert]

CUTE! I wish my first spawn went so well. I wish you the best of luck with the next few weeks

 

[Alienchick017]

Thanks! This isn't actually my 1st spawn, just the 1st spawn that resulted in fry. I'm so proud of them, like they are my own children lol. I hope everything continues to go well