dave_oddballs
ray and oddball keeper !!
been wanting to breed bettas again for a while now so i went ahead.
got myself 2 male crown tail bettas, one white with blue n purple specs, the other is yellow with blue specs. got a couple of my girlfriends crown tail females, one white with blue specs, the other a solid purple tinted metallic silver.
i conditioned them, each separated from anything else and fed live food. put both males in separate 30 L tanks with about 5 inches of water (syphoned from original tank) and frogbit and a few other lengths of plants just thrown in.
both by the next day had built bubble nests. i put 1 female next to each tank in clear containers to introduce them to the males.
after 1 day (and night) put the females in with the males, the silver female with the white male and the white female with the yellow male. yesterday the white female an the yellow male bred, after i removed the female into a breeding net in the original tank to recover, about an hour later the eggs were gone. the only conclusion i could come to was the male ate them?
today the other pair bred, took hours! when they finished i removed the female and placed in a net to recover, this male is doing better, looking after the eggs, placing fallen eggs back in the nest and so on.
am i right in thinking they should hatch in about 48 hours?
also would i be right in thinking you leave the male in there with the fry until about 48 hours after the fry hatch or are free swimming?
i have no access to newly hatched brine shrimp, so would would be a good alternative? e.g. liquifry? or would they eat the algae and so on from the fogbit roots and the plants in there?
any and all information will be appreciated.
Thanks
David
got myself 2 male crown tail bettas, one white with blue n purple specs, the other is yellow with blue specs. got a couple of my girlfriends crown tail females, one white with blue specs, the other a solid purple tinted metallic silver.
i conditioned them, each separated from anything else and fed live food. put both males in separate 30 L tanks with about 5 inches of water (syphoned from original tank) and frogbit and a few other lengths of plants just thrown in.
both by the next day had built bubble nests. i put 1 female next to each tank in clear containers to introduce them to the males.
after 1 day (and night) put the females in with the males, the silver female with the white male and the white female with the yellow male. yesterday the white female an the yellow male bred, after i removed the female into a breeding net in the original tank to recover, about an hour later the eggs were gone. the only conclusion i could come to was the male ate them?
today the other pair bred, took hours! when they finished i removed the female and placed in a net to recover, this male is doing better, looking after the eggs, placing fallen eggs back in the nest and so on.
am i right in thinking they should hatch in about 48 hours?
also would i be right in thinking you leave the male in there with the fry until about 48 hours after the fry hatch or are free swimming?
i have no access to newly hatched brine shrimp, so would would be a good alternative? e.g. liquifry? or would they eat the algae and so on from the fogbit roots and the plants in there?
any and all information will be appreciated.
Thanks
David
