waiting for the arrivals

[infant340]

hey wuv how do i feed the white worms to the bettas??

 

[wuvmybetta]

I do them like this:

First and foremost,make sure your culture is reproducing. I set the food on 2"x2" pieces of craft canvas (kinda like divider material,plastic and holey). The worms crawl all over the plastic squares and through the holes etc..

Get two cups of water and an eyedropper sort of thing. Pick up the canvas pieces and dip them gently in one cup one at a time, making sure to only wash the worms off into the water....not the food, then put it back and grab another one and continue. By now you'll have a cup with a million worms at the bottom,but the water may be dingy sooo, using your eyedropper you suck up just the worms from the bottom of the cup and squirt them into the 2nd cup of clean water for a rinse. Then use the eyedropper to feed them to the fish from the clean cup.

It's not as difficult as it sounds,and it's the easiest method I've come up with so far.

Remember~ the more cultures you have,the more worms you can harvest each day. I keep over ten cultures going at all times.

 

[BettaMomma]

i dont think i checked the PH...couldnt find my bottle of PH indicator....
and the bucket i used for my last spawn. all of my fry died due to some wierd feeding accident. i fed them then i came down to check on them and they were all dead. there was only about 15 of them so it was easy to count. ya think that could be it???

What kind of feeding accident?
Are you 100% positive they died from the feeding accident?
It seems like that bucket is the common denominator between the 2 deaths...

How do you store that bucket when you're not using it?
If i had to guess, I would bet that something's contaminated that bucket and it's killing some of the fish that come into contact with the water that's been in it.

Also, I have a REEEEEALLy hard time believing they could have died from shock. Most of the bettas I have (The ones I got in the beginning) came from WalMart, which means they are treated pretty roughly before I got them - and their genetics just make them much less hardy than wuv's - and in the beginning (Before I knew better) I brought them all home and just went ahead and dumped them right on into their new tanks without any problems at all.

NOT that it can't happen, but there's something else here that happened, i'm 99.9999% positive.

 

[infant340]

i keep it in the bucke in the laundry room in a cabinet. well before i fed my fry they were pretty active then afterwards, like i said i checked on them and they all died....

well yesterday i took pics of the bettas, now if only i can find my USB cord....

 

[BettaMomma]

Hrmmmm....
Is it possible that some of your laundry soap came in contact w/the bucket?
or bleach?

 

[infant340]

i guess it could, my mom bleaches her white all the time...

 

[BettaMomma]

I bet that's the problem.
I wonder if she didn't use that bucket to soak something and the bleach got the fish.

I'd recommend getting a new bucket for future fish toting and don't keep it in the laundry closet!