Hmmmm.

[luke.eyndhoven]

ok
so while i was away for a 3 week holiday. i let my little brother look after my bettas which at the time i was conditioning. anyway when i came home i discovered my fish had been put together plus they were dead. so i took the two dead out and left the snail in the tank. when i went to clean the tank i found baby fish under the rocks. so now i have 4 fry and thier tails can be seen and they are very active. i got some water and some stuff off the bottom of the water trough(its full of bloodworms and many things my older bettas love) and put it in a new clean tank with the fry. now they are full of worms and other little creatures but they are trying to eat each other
suggestions??
cheers luke

 

[smegforbrains]

The fry are trying to eat each other?

How big are they?

Can you divide the tank?

Failing that, do you have any large jars, like sweet jars?


If you use jars, you will need to change water regularly because it won't be filtered. If they are glass jars, you can place them in an empty tank and fill water around them, to the depth of the water in the jars, and use a heater and an empty filter to create a current of warm water around the jars.

Hope you follow what I mean

 

[Joshy]

Can we get photos?
How big are these 'baby fish'?

 

[Syphoniera]

IF these are tiny fry, do you have vinegar eels or Liquifry anything really tiny enough that they can eat it?
Because if there are only bloodworms and bigger things, they're likely to have run out of microrganisms they can eat, and be starving, which could explain why they're trying to eat each other.
Edit - especially if moved to a clean, empty tank with none at all.
Baby fish will starve rapidly. (End of edit.)
Because if your adult fish were put together to breed sometime after you went away on holiday, the fry are less than 3 weeks old for sure, and possibly much less.
I really hope an expert breeder will come along soon to advise...
Good luck, anyway.
Edit: if the brain-bone was connected to the typing bone, I wouldn't have been crowned the Typo Queen.

 

[luke.eyndhoven]

okay,
yes these are betta fry,
theyre not like full on eating each other but take little nips at each others tails. they would be about 3 weeks old. they ARE eating( i can see the worms in thier bellies lol). they have a bare tank with a few rocks to rest on. they are very active. i will try to get some pics up later ok. now i dont know if you guys live on a farm or have been to a farm but a water troughs are a micro organism ecosystem right. the stuff which i collect off the bottom of the trough is in the tank as well. i forgot to mention. the fry are definatly not hungry. they are very full. thier tails can be seen, they about 1cm long at the most.
oh i forgot, they are big enough to fit small bloodworms down thier throat.
cheers luke

 

[smegforbrains]

Sounds like you have a fair few males in there. Time to separate them methinks

 

[luke.eyndhoven]

but the thing is theyre to small to be aggresive (one would think) and this morning they arnt as interested as they were before.

 

[Cdarmychi]

your gonna have to seperate soon anyways....and if nipping is happening NOW....its best not to wait

 

[MaddieJ]

Not too early for them to be aggressive at all, best to start separating if they go at each other a lot.

 

[azulfire24]

why would ur brother put them togather while you were away? did you ask him too? or was he just susposto feed them and he put them togather with out asking? and both parents were still in the tank dead??

being carful no to suck out the babies do a large water change.. but add the new water < the exact same temp> very slowly.....very ,, if you brother left the parents die they might have been in there a while and rotting bodys foul up the water quick....