My Betta Sorority

[Alm0stAwesome]

Wow! Pretty girls

 

[Llegmore]

Beautiful tank, gorgeous fish. I am most definitely jealous.

 

[Salam]

Thanks all, really appreciate your comments. Really pleased with myself, got the tank up and running very fast and thanks to the mature filter stats are stable and I can enjoy them.

Caz, the otos have truly settled in well, I think I will have no problems keeping them alive, they are constantly munching on algae rocks or bloodworm pellets when fed at night.

 

[HannahBear77]

wow i love your girls their really pretty

 

[pablothebetta]

Any updates?

 

[LucyB]

Gorgeous!

 

[Salam]

Any updates?

Sorry, didn't see this. Yes, there are updates, but not good ones. I had a long post in the emergency section about two weeks or so back.

Short story: They have all died, one after the other. Replaced them and they died. The only survivor that is with me now is the only non-crowntail betta. On the emergency thread we worked out that it could have been a parasite brought in by the pygmy cories or an unknown parasite that only affects crowntail bettas. I found out that others had the problem, especially with pygmies.

The tank is now totally different, have cleared it out and instead I have a hopefully soon breeding pair of kribs (they seem to be getting jiggy) and the remaining betta lives with them. I have also returned the pygmy cories to that tank. I didn't want to try it again, it was too heartbreaking seeing them all die and there was nothing I could do to save them. But so far so good. No more deaths. It must have been something that killed the crowntails and I will probably never know exactly what.

 

[pablothebetta]

Sorry to hear that I hope the kribs turn out better for you this time

 

[Salam]

Thanks. Well, kribs have laid eggs by the looks of it (she is constantly in the coconut and he is guarding), so it's definitely not the tank of doom anymore