New Female And Crown Tail Male.

[andyw823]

Bought an unusual coloured female along with a striking male Crown Tail over the weekend to go in my modified 3 way split tank, they were placed in the tank yesterday. The tank already had a male in the centre compartment, the female went to the left and the Crown tail to the right. So tonight was time for pictures but to my surprise the female had jumped the devide into the male veil tail`s compartment (my fault... too much water) and nature was well underway so i left them to it. Im really surprised how long this went on for (1 and a half hours) Well no pics were taken as i was stunned by what was happeneing but here is a short video.

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGCbnjdcmew

 

[finalfantay85]

Wow dude that is an amazing video! And the 2 fish are beautiful, the fry will be stunning

 

[andyw823]

Wow dude that is an amazing video! And the 2 fish are beautiful, the fry will be stunning

As its something i have not planned, im not really cluded up on what todo next! I have now seperated them (waited untill the male was fed up with her) and dropped the water level so no more jumping. Looking at the amount of eggs that were produced from 1.5 hours of spawning im going to need alot of small cups!

 

[hihi100202]

I guess your the only person that can say their happy a beta jumped a divide

 

[Haych]

amazing! a good dad too!

do you have clear dividers??

 

[andyw823]

amazing! a good dad too!

do you have clear dividers??

Plastic canvas although one has a partial clear section.

 

[aly_starh]

Good Luck.

BREEDING The decision of breeding bettas should not be taken lightly, it requires extensive research and much thought, time and money.
2 of the healthiest bettas should be used. Each betta will require conditioning; this is basically feeding them lots of live foods.

A spawning tank should be set up (5g-10g) with a heater set at 29C,and a sponge filter. The female should be put into a chimney until the male has built a bubble nest, after 2 days the female can be released.
After spawning takes place, remove the female immediately, the male might kill her if he feels threatened. 3 days later fry should be free swimming, it is now time to remove the male or he will eat them.

Whilst taking care of the fry, it is also important to check on the health of the parents, carry on feeding them live foods for 2 days or so before weaning them back onto dry food.

Feed the fry 3 times a day with high protein live food, micro worms, vinegar eels, baby Brine Shrimp are all excellent.
For the first 2 weeks tank should not be cleaned, but after this switch on the sponge filter and do daily water changes of around 50%. The fry will dramatically grow with water changes.

At around 6 weeks, start feeding fry dry food, along with the live cultures. By this time they will have developed their labyrinth organs. It’s now also the time to separate all the males into individual containers as they will start being aggressive. These containers should be 1l minimum, and daily water changes will need to be done. As there is no heater for these, they will need to be kept in a warm room.

At around 16 weeks they can be sold on.

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