Crowntail Pair *video of KINK*

awww brilliant nat shes just like her mummy ............ good luck x

Thanks Nina, the babies are growing a lot i can see them a whole lot easier now, they are a week old today already...dont time fly by!!

Babies are now 7 days old and here's some photos of them...i can now see their tails and pec fins they are so cute...

AWWWWWWWWW Nat you seem to be doing fine hun, and the water looks brill for a baby betta tank lmao

Im fed up of the grot on the bottom i siphon every other day dont like to disturb them especially when im putting water back in!

I WANT YOUR CAMERA! LOL They are fab pics! Doing a grand job there with babies

Thanks Mandy its nerve racking trying to get things right...finally got my culture worms so i can start those...they smell really horrible when i open the lid.

My camera isnt the best just a bog standard kodak camera takes me ages to get a non blurry shot, lol!

When i look at them some have black eyes and others have gold looking eyes, also some have black tummys and others dont i know they dont colour up till they are a lot older but their mummy is black so wondering if thats why they are showing black at this stage.

They are 14 days old today

Well my little un's are getting quite big now compared to when they hatched! I finally received my worms through the post fearing the worst got in touch with the seller and he said they should be okay for upto a month.

So put them in the container with the ready brek and wow i cant believe how fast they've crawled up the sides and my little babies where a little curious at first just watching them, after that they'd gobble them up. They are stinky worms and very wriggly in the water yuck!

Heres a few photos of the little un's now, photos taken last night...try to ignore the grot on the floor i need to siphon it up later today feeding the worms are so messy!











Fry eating worms

somehow i managed to miss this whole thread too hun... I apologise!

Are the fry succesful?

IGNORE THE ABOVE.. for some reason your whole post didn't display so only just saw them

i expect you'll have loads of black devils, some red devils and a few reds with or without some black

they're looking good babe

Thanks Kel, im suprised iv got this far with them as this is the 1st successful spawn iv had!

Some babies are really quite big compared to the runts, iv just put them on the worms from them being on the powdered egg yolks and they where a little weary at first but now they gobble them down no problems, lol!

Im actually hoping that i get some red females like their dad but whatever they turn out to be will be a bonus

Iv recounted them today and i seem to have 19 so when i orginally counted them i saw 11, then last week 14 and now 19! Maybe as they get bigger they are easy to see.

Iv only had 2 die on me as these where so tiny.

Iv a few more photos that iv taken today so il put them up soon.

Now they are on worms is there any other foods i can give to them? Iv been looking at the tubs of decap brine shrimp that you dont need to hatch and the micro flakes...i want them to have a varied diet so they dont get stuck on 1 kinda food???

My little babies will be a month old on the 9th, my thats not half gone quickly!

Just fed them their worms and noticed a teeny tiny little baby that looked very strange...its tail was pointing right up rather than being straight, poor little thing looked like it was managing to swim about okay just looks very odd!

That kind of deformity usually shows up in my Guppies. Since the Plecostomus killed my Oscar I wouldn't be able to cull them. I'm sure you can judge whether it needs to be culled or not or just raised as a pet for yourself. Of all the Bettas I've raised I feel fortunate that I have had so few that needed to be culled. I have two that I wouldn't trade for most anything. One is a BF Cambo Red White male with a twisted humped back and the other a short bodied Copper Lace Black SD male.

They both still have great color to them. IMO!

If it survives its a keeper, its growing a lot slower than the others i suppose down to not getting much food as it stays out of the others way up in the water lettuce iv got floating on top.

Seems to be managing swimming okay for now and there's only that 1...is there any reason for why just that 1 has ended up deformed??

The baby is like this shape __/ instead of the normal straight body and tail...

Iv got a few photos to show you...managed to get a photo of the biggest baby and the smallest (Quasy the deformed baby)

The biggest baby:




Size difference between babies:


This is Quasy:




Look at Quasys body shape follow up from his head up to his tail you can see his shape!




They are growing quickly now at nearly a month old from when they hatched, some looking dark in colour others showing red and others having no colours at all...thought they only coloured up later on when they are older?
But as they've got bigger more and more appear so orginally i thought i had around 11 now iv counted 24!

You will probably find that if quasy continues to fend for himself he'd live happily in a girls tank as long as you never jar him alone (if it's a him)

sometimes the deformed one's don't make it to adult, others may still have a long life, because of the shape he'll never be a fast swimmer so wouldn't bother girls much.

thats half the fun with fry tanks, count 5 times in a row and it will be a different number each time lol

More photos...

...on a worm hunt...

CURIOUS QUESTION

When iv been doing my water changes in my fry tank iv taken about a 1/4 out then when i refill with clean water iv been putting stress coat in there with my water as i do with any water change, is this okay???

I've never had a problem with stresscoat and bettas, but have never tried it on fry.

i would have thought so it takes the chemicles out the water

It also contains aloe vera. There are no chemicals in RO water and I wouldn't use anything other than RO with my bettas.

stress coat is fine hun