black orchid spawn

Its not looking good - I cant see any babies at all

And strange enough now dad is building a bubble nest in his meth blue tub lol

put it down to experience, your male should be much better next time round, it can take them a few spawns to get the hang of things.

you probably do still have some fry but if there's only a few it's very very hard to spot them, usually they'll hang around heater or filter and at corners most

Poor daddy betta...hope he gets well soon

Well daddy is looking much better already - and mommy has plumped up and dancing for Spikey lol

Lol, those CT girls are......hussys...

I have a crisis!

As I didnt know the babies had survived I dont have any live foods - and one survived!

I do have frozen BBS can I start the baby on that whilst I get the live BBS and vinegar eel going?

(I killed my microworm culture )

Kel advised me to boil an egg and mash a tiny bit of the cooled yolk in water , put in a spray bottle and spray that into tank , i used this method till my microworms were goin ! congrats on the survivor u could have more!

thanks very much!

I have an egg but dunno if its off or not

speak to kel see if she has got any vinegar eels goin as she had my massive culture when i went onto the marines

I have vinegar eel culture going - but dunno how long it takes before i can make a feeding culture.

We have TWO babies and I have just fed some frozen BBS defrosted in some tepid water.

when i had mine i had it set up for about a week then split them so had 1 culture and 1 feeding culture

there must of been millions of the things by the time kel had em lol

ok well I have the BBS hatchery going now, (again something I killed ) and also the vinegar eel as well as emergency BBS frozen food!

lol cultures are a pain in the arse lol im about to start doing them for my marine tank to add some live food to them

liam, they're still living ... though i think i prefer the micro worms for long term culture lol

bbs def get the practice in now with them cos a failed hatch is all it takes to kill fry in the first month. they need food and regular

the brand i use is great, i don't use airline or anything, premixed with salt already,
I've tried a few over the years and it gives me good hatch rate with little fuss

shell-less in liquid are reasonably gd to hatch but poor hatch for price i find

Liam would you not do better starting with straight live adult brineshrimp in a culture tank to breed?

im only gonna be doing copepods mainly for my mandarin as they are picky eaters

marine tanks scare me, even more ways to get it wrong and twice as expensive if you did

glad you enjoying them though

tbh kel i think the bettas are more trouble lol even now that ive got corals lol

pmsl

I can believe that with you

bettas need attention ... marines don't in the 'pet' sense but need more maintanence/care to environment

I can do the love and water changes but i know i would struggle with the marine set ups.. lights, salinity, skimmers etc. I'm bad enough with aquatic plants lol

lol

kel wrote:pmsl

I can believe that with you

bettas need attention ... marines don't in the 'pet' sense but need more maintanence/care to environment

I can do the love and water changes but i know i would struggle with the marine set ups.. lights, salinity, skimmers etc. I'm bad enough with aquatic plants lol

and hose pipes lol

I have the hatchery going with the deshelled eggs - but none seemed to hatch this time (did before)

Still feeding on BBS frozen defrosted in a cup of tank water 3-4 times daily - the vinegar eel is coming along nicely

I also now have THREE babies - and deffo only three. I stripped out the tank for a good clean as the plants shed loads and I didnt know what was food or plants.

I gently syphoned up with the turkey baster and checked everything over.

I bought a little tank for the fry to go into and used the existing spawn water for them so no harsh changes.

Will put up the pics for you later with the spawn tank with Tango in ready for conditioning

oh I see the quote thing is going on here too

I have piccies



The baby set up. I have put bubble wrap over the top to keep the temperature stable.

and one of the fry - you have to look REALLY well to see it - I need to get a decent point and click camera

awww i love em when theyre tiny, well done hun

congrates, on the fry and managing to get a pic!!!

They aren't exactly the easiest to photograph lol

thats an understatement lol

There should be three - only ever seen one

I had a clean out of the bottom of the tank as it was rather grubby today and I managed to do a head count and I have two remaining and one was found dead which is such a shame but two out of three is good