lisie
Fish Herder
I finally have babies!! 
I had attempted spawning this pair before about a month or so ago, but the male's bubblenest wasn't big enough to hold all the eggs so they fell out, and then he was so busy trying to pick up the eggs that fell out that he didn't repair the bubblenest when it started popping and so all the eggs ended up on the floor of the tank. A few of the eggs hatched but for some reason they didn't make it.
Then I tried another pair, but because of the male's huge finnage, it was really hard for him to wrap around the female, and I only ended up with 2 fry, which also died for some reason.
But last week I tried pair number one again. The male built a very nicely sized bubblenest this time and blew more bubbles every chance he got the whole time he was in the spawn tank.
Both times he was super gentle with the female, and she is just a sweetie, so not a scratch on either one of them! 
They spawned last Tuesday, did everything "by the book" and the spawn went perfectly, resulting in (my guess) at least 200 eggs. The next day the eggs hatched, all but just a few, and this male was just the perfect daddy. I was planning on leaving him in with the fry, but...
I found out that I had to go away starting that Sunday, for a whole week.
I took out daddy to keep the water clean, put a couple plants in there for infusoria, and had my mom feed the fry extremely finely chopped up frozen brine shrimp.
I ended up not staying the whole week, thank God, and got back home Wednesday, to only find about 25-30 still alive. I rushed to set up a BBS hatchery, and although about 5 more fry died before any had time to hatch, the next morning the remaining fry all had tummies all full and orange.
So I now have 20-25 little babies!! They're 10 days old, and seem to be about normal size. There are some light bodied ones and some darker ones. They're absolutely ADORABLE, you can so tell they're little bettas, hehe.
I wish I could get pictures but my camera doesn't like tiny things so they just come out as little blurs. Here are some pictures of the parents, though...
Momma without flash:
Two really bad pics of her with flash:
Papa without flash:
With flash:
And yes, if you couldn't tell, they are Synnir's kids. I know the photos are old, too... I have newer ones on my laptop but my adaptor broke so I can't use it at the moment.
I had attempted spawning this pair before about a month or so ago, but the male's bubblenest wasn't big enough to hold all the eggs so they fell out, and then he was so busy trying to pick up the eggs that fell out that he didn't repair the bubblenest when it started popping and so all the eggs ended up on the floor of the tank. A few of the eggs hatched but for some reason they didn't make it. Then I tried another pair, but because of the male's huge finnage, it was really hard for him to wrap around the female, and I only ended up with 2 fry, which also died for some reason.
But last week I tried pair number one again. The male built a very nicely sized bubblenest this time and blew more bubbles every chance he got the whole time he was in the spawn tank.
Both times he was super gentle with the female, and she is just a sweetie, so not a scratch on either one of them! They spawned last Tuesday, did everything "by the book" and the spawn went perfectly, resulting in (my guess) at least 200 eggs. The next day the eggs hatched, all but just a few, and this male was just the perfect daddy. I was planning on leaving him in with the fry, but...I found out that I had to go away starting that Sunday, for a whole week.
I took out daddy to keep the water clean, put a couple plants in there for infusoria, and had my mom feed the fry extremely finely chopped up frozen brine shrimp. I ended up not staying the whole week, thank God, and got back home Wednesday, to only find about 25-30 still alive.
I rushed to set up a BBS hatchery, and although about 5 more fry died before any had time to hatch, the next morning the remaining fry all had tummies all full and orange. So I now have 20-25 little babies!! They're 10 days old, and seem to be about normal size. There are some light bodied ones and some darker ones. They're absolutely ADORABLE, you can so tell they're little bettas, hehe.
I wish I could get pictures but my camera doesn't like tiny things so they just come out as little blurs. Here are some pictures of the parents, though...Momma without flash:
Two really bad pics of her with flash:
Papa without flash:
With flash:
And yes, if you couldn't tell, they are Synnir's kids.
I know the photos are old, too... I have newer ones on my laptop but my adaptor broke so I can't use it at the moment. 
