I am not sure if I ever let you guys in on my May 2nd spawn...sorry! I don't like to announce my spawns anymore until I am positive that the fry will survive. It only gets my hopes up, lol. Anyway, I am proud to say that I DO have a spawn that is a little over a month old now.
The dad (B) is a silver/gold male with red fins (no, it isn't red wash) and the mom (3) WAS a black/gold sheened marble female who is now colored exactly like the male, but with marbling. There are about 20-25 fry, but it was a small spawn and I actually only found one dead fry and that was 2 weeks ago. They have just gotten their color, or at least some sort of color. It's silver/gold, however I am just waiting for the marble gene to kick in and give them some spice.
Up until last week or so they were still being fed BBS and microworms, but I have now eliminated both of those foods as the fry are too big to get full off of them and they are a hassle anyway. Now the babies are eating a mixture of crushed shrimp, bloodworms, flakes, and pellets along with grindal worms. They took to the dry foods extremely well. Usually it takes a long time for bettas to realize that even though it may not wiggling, around it's still food. I am a little too worried to introduce grated frozen food simply because of the risk of parasites. Getting a disease now would suck. Live grindal worms seem to be the perfect food for month old fry anyway.
Spending many hours changing water today reminded me to update and let you guys in on how I've been doing and how my bettas are doing. I swear I worked for 3 hours organizing equipment, cleaning empty tanks, changing water, feeding fish, and reculturing all the creatures I feed to betta fry. Tomorrow is going to be even more exciting as I get to move the little guys into a 20 gallon with live plants and some sort of bottom feeders. My mom thinks I am crazy and I agree. They are perfectly fine in their 10 gallon with plastic plants, but I want to give them the best environment possible.
Alexa (attached is a glimpse of one of the babies)
The dad (B) is a silver/gold male with red fins (no, it isn't red wash) and the mom (3) WAS a black/gold sheened marble female who is now colored exactly like the male, but with marbling. There are about 20-25 fry, but it was a small spawn and I actually only found one dead fry and that was 2 weeks ago. They have just gotten their color, or at least some sort of color. It's silver/gold, however I am just waiting for the marble gene to kick in and give them some spice.
Up until last week or so they were still being fed BBS and microworms, but I have now eliminated both of those foods as the fry are too big to get full off of them and they are a hassle anyway. Now the babies are eating a mixture of crushed shrimp, bloodworms, flakes, and pellets along with grindal worms. They took to the dry foods extremely well. Usually it takes a long time for bettas to realize that even though it may not wiggling, around it's still food. I am a little too worried to introduce grated frozen food simply because of the risk of parasites. Getting a disease now would suck. Live grindal worms seem to be the perfect food for month old fry anyway.
Spending many hours changing water today reminded me to update and let you guys in on how I've been doing and how my bettas are doing. I swear I worked for 3 hours organizing equipment, cleaning empty tanks, changing water, feeding fish, and reculturing all the creatures I feed to betta fry. Tomorrow is going to be even more exciting as I get to move the little guys into a 20 gallon with live plants and some sort of bottom feeders. My mom thinks I am crazy and I agree. They are perfectly fine in their 10 gallon with plastic plants, but I want to give them the best environment possible.
Alexa (attached is a glimpse of one of the babies)
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Keep us posted how its going!