10gal Betta Albimarginata: rescue male 10/27

[CAM6467]

Very nice! It sounds like you're going to do very well with this project. Who knows...maybe I'll be knocking on your door for some breeding advice once I graduate from my 10 gallon to that 75 planted of my dreams!!

[connordude27]

wow this is awesome do you plan to sell these ones? or breed them with your friend batch of fry?

[Phoenix-cry]

I'm going to start selling once I get a nice established breeding population going. So hopefully in about six months I'll be ready to start selling some!

[Phoenix-cry]

Here is daddy with a mouthful of babies. They have hatched now and so he'll spit them out in a day or two.



After this Daddy gets a break till he fattens up!

[Karackle]

Wow! Those are really beautiful and interesting fish! I'm so glad they are breeding well, and it's really great that you are trying to help establish / enlarge the captive bred population, i think that's a really important thing to do in this hobby! If I ever have space for the tanks, I'd love to try and do that with my CPDs.

Those babies are so cute too! Congratulations on the little ones doing well and good luck with this next spawn! Can't wait to see more pictures!

[Phoenix-cry]

thanks Karackle! I'm having a lot of fun with this! I've been trying to breed my CPDs as well, but so far no luck with those guys. giggle. I also think that breeding rare fish is important to keep the wild populations safe.

[Karackle]

yeah, i'd love to have a go at breeding the CPDs, right now i'm having fun with guppy - endler hybridizing because I only have room for 1 10g fry tank and I think i'd need a few more spawning / rearing tanks for pretty much any other fish, I have CPDs now so maybe when I move i'll forgo the guppy project and try my hand at CPDs if I have space for a few more 10g (they're so cheap and easy to set up as rearing tanks, the only issue I have truly is space right now, i live in a small apartment and have 3 display tanks as it is + the guppy endler tank )

But yes, captive bred populations are definitely important so as to keep nice healthy wild populations in tact!

[suebe333]

Very nice ,, love all the pics

[Phoenix-cry]

The Daddy had his babies today!! Here's an out of focus picture of one of the new ones. I've counted ten of them so far, but they are hard to find in all the hornwort!

[Phoenix-cry]

Here's a pic of the whole tank. It's choked with hornwort. Daddy is in the breeder box cause Momma is all ready to 'go' again and I don't think he can take it! So I'm going to let him fatten up.

[Phoenix-cry]

I thought daddy was done, but he spit out over twenty more while in the breeder. Where was he hiding so many little fish! There must be over forty of them in all.

[joshh]

Poor guy. What interesting fishes though

[Phoenix-cry]

They are a lot of fun!

[organic sideburns]

hah that tank looks like so much fun. makes me want to start breeding some fish. maybe ill start with guppies

cute bettas, so unique.

[jaidexl]

Wow, that is stunning coloration, I don't think I've seen this species before. Be sure to let me know when you decide to "add to the captive bred population", I'd be glad to buy a pair or two off you and keep the ball rolling. Would probably keep adding wilds back into the strain.