betta

[JimmyBlaize]

so i decided to breed my 5 year old crimson red veiltail, with a thailand female betta, i just removed the male from the breeding tank and now have free swimming fry, tiny lil guys. how should i go on to proceed with this. btw when im done, im making a 200 gallon sorrority for the females, and re homing the males to good homes.

[Daniel]

What are your feeding the fry?

[JimmyBlaize]

im crushing up flakes and pellots with a spoon, into powder, and mixing it in hot water making a paste for the moment.

 

[Daniel]

I have had the best luck with green water followed up with microworms and baby brine shrimp.

[JimmyBlaize]

i tried to crush up freeze dried brine shrimp and i went to check on the fry the next day only to come back to them all dead 😞

[Fish Folk]

Green water is good. Vinegar eels maybe could work. Newly hatched live baby brine shrimp (artemia) are staple and essential. If you can prep some catappa leaves so that there's infusoria going into the breeding tank, the fry will have a bit of first food prepared. An old method is boiling an egg, then extracting the yolk, putting it in a panty-hose stocking, and then gently squeezing a bit of the yellow powder into a small dish with tank water through the hose so that it is fine, then extracting the yolk-water with a pipette and feeding that to fry. Another trick some guys use is to squeeze a sponge filter out into a container, and then sparingly feed some of that bacteria to fry. It is REALLY EASY to foul up the fry water that way (as well as with egg yolk). Altogether best plan is to have live plants enough to provide infusoria for a day or two before they are large enough to eat baby brine shrimp. 

Edited December 2, 2020 by Fish Folk