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Basic needs for specific fish, illnesses, best tankmates, breeding, water chemistry, tricks to safely cut corners, and/or “stupid” questions? Maybe I can help! :)
I like to explain why you do things in aquariums (like why to use spring instead of distilled, or what pH numbers mean, ect.) so you understand why and not just taking someone’s word for it. I also like giving answers where you have two choices so you can choose which is best for the time and money you can commit to your fish. I understand how tight money can be and how expensive fish related things get.
I will NEVER leave you with an “I don’t know.” Ever. I hate that. That would waste your time and that's just mean. :)
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Experience I have had tropical fish since 1999. I currently have: a 55gal, ten 10gal, 3 five gallons, three 2gal, and a bunch of jars and bowls. At the time I'm typing this, I have: 14 angels, 13 goldfish, 73 bettas, 12 barbs, 5 catfish, too many guppies, 4 gouramis, 2 plecos, 10 loaches, bunch of swordtails, and probably a few others, lol.
I love to rescue fish. I've had everything from mutant danios, to one eyed goldfish, to my newest adoptee, a 2 year old betta with a MASSIVE tumor problem. He was brought to a pet shop and left there because the lady didn't know what to do with him. He's pretty scary looking. One of the guys at the store there I know let me have him. :D YAY! Elephant Man lives in a gallon bowl with pretty stones in my bathroom.
Plus!!!
I sell: veil, delta, halfmoon, plakat, and crowntail bettas as well as halfblack and blonde tuxedo fancy guppies. Ask me about it sometime.
Question hi my bettas are about 6 months old i have 2 males ( same tank but with a divider ) and i have a female and i bought the female trying to breed my red male to her and they did it was fasinating to watch him curl around her but i reaserched and it said to keep him in the tank with the babys until they hatch well i did and i looked a day later and i noticed a manority of eggs gone ( by the way the female is in a seperate tank since the birth ) so i moved my male out of the tank in his original tank help me plz
Answer Hey Nicole!
I have typed a response twice now only to have my computer freak out. If something doesn't seem to make sure... I probably forgot to retype something.
If there is one thing I know crazy amounts of info on, it's bettas. I have like a bazillion and 2 of them. I just had two spawns this week too.
OK!
First off:
What's your temp? They like it 78-80 when breeding. Babies need it at 80 though.
How bright is your tank? Babies and daddies don't like light at this point.
How big is your breeding container?
You have a filter in there?
Now that the questionnaire is over...
Betta breeding goes like this:
Dude betta and chick betta pig out on good food for a few days (to get the eggs and sperm at peak levels).
Dude bettas builds a bubble kingdom (because spit bubbles are cool).
Chick shows up with invisible shield. (She's in a jar or divider).
Dude makes faces at her.
Chick thinks he's icky.
Repeats.
and repeats.
She figures this is the only dude so why not! (She starts to fill with eggs.)
Dude betta goes loco when she lets down her force field. (When you turn her loose.)
She plays hard to get.
She gives up and has vertical stripes that are oh, so sexy to a dude betta.
She comes over to his bubble kingdom and wiggles her butt. (I'm not joking there.)
They get freaky. (He wraps around and all that.)
When she's tired and done she leaves the nest full of the eggs.
She gets hungry and comes back for her eggs.
Dude betta likes the idea of being a daddy and hates her idea.
She is teleported out. (With the help of a net.)
For the next three days he cleans the eggs in his mouth and spits them back into the nest if they fall.
The eggs hatch but as we all know, little kids can't do things like big kids. They swim up and down instead of horizontal way.
For three days he collects them after failed attempts to swim away. His spit keeps fungus away. He eats the slow kids too. (Eggs that haven't hatched that can fungus really quickly. Fungus it horrible with babies.)
His kids can swim normally so he teleports out as well for some well deserved R&R.
The babies eat microworms, vinegar eels, and/or infusoria for the first bit of their life. They are too small for flakes, pellets, baby brine shrimp, ect.
I suspect he either:
a. ate the eggs
b. was taken out too early.
