Post by supersixone on Oct 23, 2005 19:42:18 GMT -5
well unfortunately, i lost all but 5 of the fry from the initial spawning of stormtrooper and morwen. we had a power outage one day while i was at work, and i came home to find most of the fry dead 
the remaining fry are about 1/4 inch long (theyre about a week and a half now), and are doing well thankfully.
i figured if i had a new spawn now they'd be close enough in age i could raise them together. i tend to feed my bettas lots of high quality food all the time, so many of my ladies are quite egg-y. i chose my yellow hm male with my orange female plakat (already established he does not like the yellow hm female), and storm and morwen as a backup. well, i decided to set up 2 breeding tanks, one for each pair. somehow both decided to spawn simultaneously. i came back from breakfast and found BOTH pairs embracing away!
the orange and yellow were in a place more conducive to photos so i have some great pics of their embrace. on the other hand, i have great pics of eggs in stormtrooper's nest. the yellow boy seemed to be eating the eggs instead of putting them into the nest like he was supposed to, so started sucking them up with a turkey baster and giving them to stormtrooper, who dutifully added them to his own nest. then i saw the yellow boy finally putting them where they belong, so i stopped moving them. looks like stormtrooper will be raising a jumbled batch of fry!
okay, once again morwen and stormtrooper decided to embrace in the back corner where i can't photograph them well. here's a couple shots of them, but not embracing:
they were however kind enough to leave eggs where i could photograph them from above!
daffodil and mandarin spawned where i could take pics:
the remaining fry are about 1/4 inch long (theyre about a week and a half now), and are doing well thankfully.i figured if i had a new spawn now they'd be close enough in age i could raise them together. i tend to feed my bettas lots of high quality food all the time, so many of my ladies are quite egg-y. i chose my yellow hm male with my orange female plakat (already established he does not like the yellow hm female), and storm and morwen as a backup. well, i decided to set up 2 breeding tanks, one for each pair. somehow both decided to spawn simultaneously. i came back from breakfast and found BOTH pairs embracing away!
the orange and yellow were in a place more conducive to photos so i have some great pics of their embrace. on the other hand, i have great pics of eggs in stormtrooper's nest. the yellow boy seemed to be eating the eggs instead of putting them into the nest like he was supposed to, so started sucking them up with a turkey baster and giving them to stormtrooper, who dutifully added them to his own nest. then i saw the yellow boy finally putting them where they belong, so i stopped moving them. looks like stormtrooper will be raising a jumbled batch of fry!
okay, once again morwen and stormtrooper decided to embrace in the back corner where i can't photograph them well. here's a couple shots of them, but not embracing:
they were however kind enough to leave eggs where i could photograph them from above!
daffodil and mandarin spawned where i could take pics:
i need to find some sort of solution to this. we've not typically had power problems but obviously it's happening often enough to be an issue now. 
