eggs...eggs....eggs....again

[squirt_12]

ok well i introduced my bettas last night and wel this morning i found them wrapping...so i have some eggs...BUT...i think i introduced them too early cause i don't see many eggs in the nest and when he wraped her only 1 egg came out...could this be because they are well on their way in the proccess?? like almost done??? thanks.
i will post some pics in a few minutes of them wrapping.

[squirt_12]

here are some pics. of them wrapping....sorry about the quality...my camera isn't the greatest.

[squirt_12]

ok..it's been about 3 hours since i first saw my bettas wraping and dropiing eggs and they are STILL DOING IT....lol....i just went and looked and now when they are wrapping the female is dropping from 5-15 eggs at a time. And the nest is absolutley FULL. He is going to have to make his nest bigger to fit all of those eggs in there. lol.

[cocoa_pleco]

lol, congrats!

[squirt_12]

thanks cocoa....ok well when the fry come...could i feed them that fry food you can buy at the fish store??? like the liquid stuff??? will they eat that and will they live off of it?? like i would feed them other stuff but it is just i can't fins any micro worms. I have looked everywhere.

Thanks,
Curtis

[ruecole]

Squirt, when my gouramis spawned, they seemed to only release one egg at a time, too. The also wrapped for several hours. They started around dinner time and were still at it six hours later when I went to bed! (Little wonder there were so many babies!!! :ezpi_wink1:)

As for food, I still haven't got to that stage yet. But I'm sure if you can find the liquid fry food, they'll probably eat that. Also, don't under-estimate the ability of your tank to grow critters for them to eat. My danios are CONSTANTLY hunting something micro-scopic on the glass of the 10g. I have no idea what it is, but they sure eat a LOT of it! :sbiggrin:

Hope that helps!

Rue

[squirt_12]

ok....well the male was flarring at the female and keeping her to the other side of the tank after about 5-6 hours of wrapping...so i let them be for 10 minutes and the same thing happened so i though 'ok...she is out of eggs...' so i took her out and then fed her and then she dropped like 10 eggs and ate them...i was mad. so i left her in her own tank. The bubblenest is still really really (like overflowing) with eggs. So thats ok then. I just hope that the fry survive this time.

[blu]

Wow congrats I think you've got yourself a good breeding pair now. Im glad to hear your nest is full of eggs that should hatch this time.

Oh yea I have read that the fry wont eat the liquifry food but take really well to boiled egg yolk...liquifry I believe has egg in it but has some other stuff to. You should read the one post on alternative fry foods on ultimate bettas..Im suprised you didnt stummble across it yet.

[squirt_12]

Wow congrats I think you've got yourself a good breeding pair now. Im glad to hear your nest is full of eggs that should hatch this time.

Oh yea I have read that the fry wont eat the liquifry food but take really well to boiled egg yolk...liquifry I believe has egg in it but has some other stuff to. You should read the one post on alternative fry foods on ultimate bettas..Im suprised you didnt stummble across it yet.
ok....thanks so much blu.

[blu]

by the way here is the link...it doesnt say much about the egg yolk but has some useful info on liquifry and other foods
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[squirt_12]

ok...well i read about half of that because...well that is alot....so i think that i will use my infusoria (sp?) and crushed egg yolk with an eye dropper.
thanks.

[blu]

Yea it is a lot...I finished reading it and was suprised to see frozen rotifers on there...mabey I will try some if I ever get fry b/c I have almost a whole package left.

good luck!

[squirt_12]

Yea it is a lot...I finished reading it and was suprised to see frozen rotifers on there...mabey I will try some if I ever get fry b/c I have almost a whole package left.

good luck!
o yeah....i have never saw what rotifers look like....well good luck with your next spawn...are you going to introduce them again in 2 weeks???

[blu]

Well it is slightly put back because my male got a little tear in his fins from flaring and after a few days of resting I put my female back with the other s and her and the dominate female had a little tiff so her one fin is torn so I will have to see after a couple of weeks...I do have another female i could try though if my one is not healed yet( the males tear is small and should heal quick).

[squirt_12]

o well yeah i would wait like 3 weks then for her to heal...and condition her for 2 of the weeks. I hope all goes well your next attempt.