guess what?!?!

hehe i made a new video with all my new bettas in the last girl and the blurry male in the middle are from a lfs and i love the male thats in the setup tank in the endish HES SO CUTE!!! well here you go - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7IYRFtYOMM&fmt=18

Thanks for posting that video. I really enjoyed it. What do you feed the newly hatched Betta fry?

i havent gotten any fry but i have gotten them to breed but the first time i dont know what happened and the second the male ate the eggs. but what i would feed them after two days (they eat there bubble/egg sack) is a liquid food for them and maybe the egg yoke thing and the BBS and so on.

I've read that it's best to feed them infusoria until they get big enough for baby brine shrimp. Infusoria are microscopic creatures that inhabit almost any outdoor plant and will grow in so called green water. To make the green water, you put a piece of straw or whatever in a jar full of water and let it sit there in the sunshine. When i tried it in Phoenix this summer, all the water evaporated in a day or two. Next time, I'll bring the jar inside. I hope somebody reading this will have a more informed suggestion, because I want to raise some paradise fish, which start out as small as Bettas.

Here in Tennessee... if you leave a bucket outside, and it catches the rain water... Then you mow a time or two, and after a little while... Voila! Green Water... My neighbor has several buckets behind his shed that I get it from. You can also get it from a pond... Although that's a little scarey... If you were to get mosquito larvae... 9x out of 10 that will eat your fry...

My solution to that problem is to use peanut butter jars... I gather the water and let it sit inside... lighted with the lid sitting on the jar for about a week... by then the larvae hatch, and you have a dead mosquito laying on the top of the water... throw him away and you're good to go!

Another way is to take some aged water in a jar... add some java moss out of one of your tanks, and then sit it in a window or outside... depending on your climate... so it gets as much sunlight as possible... Give it a week or so and you should have some microscopic munchies.

So that's the ways I've done it... Now it takes a little time to get the infusoria started... so it's always better to plan ahead! When you get fry... and can't get them to eat... That'll make you pull your hair out!

Thanks for the tip. Just for practice, maybe I'll start a batch this week. Home canning is another of my hobbies, so there are plenty of jars around here. Even this time of year, though, the jar will have to go indoors. We're still getting high temperatures around 100 in Phoenix.

An article i just read in one of the aquarium magazines said you should put a piece of straw or hay in a jar and add boiling water. Probably I didn't read it correctly, because boiling water would kill everything, including the infusoria spores. I think it meant that you should add some clean, uncontaminated water, like from an RO unit.

The article was actually about keeping Bettas healthy by giving them, guess what, a clean environment and not one of those tiny stagnant bowls the poor things are sold in. Well, there was a lot more good advice in the article, but the idea of giving Bettas a decent environment caught my attention.

No kidding!

Cause that's a real misconception... even in the fish stores...

If they can sell a 10 gallon aquarium for a couple of guppies, with filtration and all... why can't they sell one for a betta?