Aaron-Betta

by the way, I was told to use tonic salt for some odd reason :-? beats me but i'll use whatever works best. lol. The Gobies seem happy enough in a floating breeding tank in fresh water at the mo.

I got the "sand" from the bird barn. Also got some dark coloured stuff like it too. Used it on my Claret + Kuhli tank. Where abouts do i get java fern from and is it expensive?

I catch mozzie larvae from rain barrels at a friends house and feed my clarets and fighters with them, never had any problems though. I usually only feed them to them once a fortnight.

Hey all, thought we would stray away from the betta family for once and set up a tank with something different for once. (have umpteen dozen tanks of fighters and a claret betta tank with a couple of Kuhlis) Cycling the tank at the moment but we have some bumble bee gobies waiting in another tank. I was told that they like a bit of tonic salt in their water being that they are brackish fish. How much do I need to use? also what do you suggest as tank mates for them?

i got the money but no one wants to import for me.

Do bristlenoses change to a patchy colouration when stresses or ill? Just wondering as I saw that one of our males is all blotchy. Could it be that he feels threatened by the other male in the tank?

Awesome, have you got any pics of mum and dad?

ok, We have four aswell, all females. Hoping to find a few males.

Does anyone have any info on Claret Bettas?

Hey there, my partner and I are going to Tauranga this weekend from Auckladn and was wondering if anyone could recommend to us somewhere we could buy nice siamese fighters fromwhile travelling between those two areas? Thanks, Aaron

I haven't heard of one except for maybe if someone referred to a multicoloured one as a "rainbow"

Hey all, I was wondering if anyone has breed kuhli's before as I was told that we cant replicate the conditions needed. Is this true?

getting more tanks was considered, but we are in between houses at the moment and I this the 7 tanks in the lounge and 3 tall 2 footers and a 3 footer in the garage is plenty at the moment. I might be pushing my luck to get more at the moment.

I have a problem, I have 6 females so full of eggs that they are just releasing them uncontrolably (they have been able to see a few males from where they are kept.) My problem is that I only have 4 spare breeding tanks. I do have an idea for a solution but I was wondering if anyone has tried it before? Possible Solution: Females need time between spawns to heal, be fed up on rich food and to produce a belly of eggs, yet males dont really. I was hoping to let one pair spawn, remove the female and replace her with another. In your opinion will this work? I guess if it doesn't work then I will have to let the girls left over release their eggs and go to waste. Any Ideas? anyone in AK want to borrow some girls for their boys to breed with? Thanks heaps, Aaron

I was wondering if we had these avaliable in nz? http://cgi.ebay.com/Artemia-fairyshrimp ... dZViewItem

at three months old, yes you should begin splitting them up. This helps by feeding them individually and doing daily water changes on the single fish can help it grow quickly and big. I usually start splitting mine up when they are around 2 cm long. It means the fins wont be damaged etc. Also when it comes to having to sell them it's easier 3 - 5 a week rather than 100 in one hit. (If you were wanting to pass them onto shops or other fisho's)

where are the photos bettabrett? cant wait to see them.

thanks heaps for all your help. Had 2 days of eggs (first day had around 20 and the second day there were lots on the ground, but by the time i had boiled some more peat and cooled it enough, I went abck and only had 3) but they seemed to have had a day off today not one of them seems interested in food though, they usually like mozzie larvae but they havn't touched them and it isn't pleasant to open the garage door in the morning to be attacked by hungry mozzies. I have tried flake and bloodworms but they just leave it and let it rot on the bottom. Thinking about splitting them up for a while. I think the eggs have gone to waste though as it wasn't till today that I was reading on another site that you should store the eggs on the damp peat in an opaque container whereas I had mine in a clear container so I didn't have to open it all the time to check on them (yes I am nosey being that its my first killi eggs) I am also guessing my lack of methyline blue (what a time to run out!) has something to do with the few that are growing funguses. I stuffed the container into a draw for a few days, but i'm not holding my breath waiting for them to hatch. Hopefully I will be more prepared next time as I wasn't expecting them to spawn at all. (have a trio of golden australe in a tank by themselves with no action) Hopefully it will give me a bit of time to tend to my growing collection of fighters (now have 6x 29L breeding tanks, 1 aquaone plastic tank for the australes, 1 50L for the garneri trio, 3 tall 2 foot grow out tanks-also home to my bristlenose trio, and recently a 3 foot tank yet to be set up. )

I have put them in about an inch of water spread out through a chinese takeaway container which is floating in a tank to keep them warm. Hopefully 26-28 degrees isn't too warm. I also noticed when seperating them that there is a really fine string between some of them. Umm... next questions: - How long until they start to form? - How often will the trio spawn if left together? - A question from my partner was How big do they get? we have golden Australe and Gardneri Nigeriatum. By the way, sorry for all the questions but I didnt actually plan for them to spawn as I usually research alot before committing to breeding something. :roll:

I have just done the mad dash down to the LFS and picked up some peat. Next barrage of newbie questions: -Does the success rate of hatching a M/F ratio differ from hatching in water and hatching on damp peat? -How does one boil peat and why? is it as simple as boiling it on a pot on the stove? -are they temperature sensitive? currently in a tank that has a heater set to around 24-26 degrees, if i was to bring them inside and keep them without a heater would it be ok?

wow, things happen fast when you aren't watching. After finding the eggs and typing the previous post I went back to the tank to find more of them, around 30 now. I so wasn't wanting this right now as I have just had 4 spawns of fighters.... must be something in the water. ( I only drink bottled water luckily!)

Hey there, I didn't actually intend it too happen, but I am pretty sure my trio have had eggs. Originally I had them in a tank with a bristlenose and some plants and fruitsalad stones. I emptied the whole tank yesterday trying to get rid of a snail infestation. I put the killis back into the now bare tank without the plants, stones and bristlenose. I was hoping to sort them out today but when I went to look at the tank I saw what I thought to be 3 eggs on the ground, now there are around 12 and I am wanting to know what to do next as this is my first time (Killi Virgin) I am thinking that the complete water change might have made them spawn. Also how are these guys supposed to spawn? via mop or peat?

next question, where would i get some actual plants of it as I can only get bunches of clippings?

Whats this plant called and where could i get more of them? I think it is called Ambulia (Limnophila sessiliflora) am I correct? I use it in bunches I buy from the petstore in my breeding tanks as shelter for the females.

Fixed Links Mod Multi-coloured crown-tail line Goal: Nice finnage and colours Father: Son: (tending to his nest) 26/4/07 Sorry for some of the bad pics, some taken on digicamera others on taken on mobile phone. Havn't attempted breeding these multi-coloured crown-tails in a while but put a pair down to breed last week may or may-not work, but I thought I would try and take a video http://s99.photobucket.com/albums/l282/ ... V02490.flv