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Bettas???Will Pick best answer always do?

Posted on September 10, 2010 by admin| 7 Comments

I am breeding my betta and i introdulced her to his tank today using a floating breeder without the little V thing in it as i was advised to do By my LFS owner and everythings goin well i think.There both flaring at eachother.And she has her white spot that looks sorta like a pimple but hes not making a bubble nest.I Have a heater in it no filtration as it may dirupt the bubble nest. and a half cup for the guidleline for him to make the nest but still no nest..Does he make it then i introduce her???I know many of you will advise against breeding bettas but i am prepared have gotten together 300 plastic cups.have a 55 gallon growout tank am hatching Brine shrimp and have Frozen bloodworms as well as a variety of flake food.Can you tell me why no bubble nest thanks a billion:)

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guppy birthing?

Posted on August 19, 2010 by admin| 12 Comments

ok so i have 2 guppys who seem very ready to have babies in a heated breeder tank(5 gallons) i separated them and added them this morning.i have been feeding them 2x a day and there temp is at 75.i have fed them a mix of… brine shrimp flakes…spirulina…tropical flakes… and have stress zyme in the tank to help reduce stress. there are no other fish in the tank just them.Is there anything else that i should be doing to help them give birth easily and reduce stress.plus i wanna keep the babies so anything i can do to help that? one guppy is fancy my other is feeder are the amount of fry different for each kind or no? and if in the future i allow onlymy fancy male to impregnate her will the chances of fancy babies with my feeder be high or low?on average i hear they will have like 20-60 babies can i just keep babies in the heated breeder tank or should i move them immediately out and into a separate tank?
can i keep the babies in the heated breeder if i take the moms out* i shudda wrote tht to make the last one make more sense
and will 3 weeks be long enough for them to grow and get there colors if they are in my breeder tank with a mix of high protein foods.with a baby fry liquid food in the begining
i have 9 female guppys(7 fancy 2 feeder) and 4 male guppys
Thanks in advance!
is ther anything i can do to prevent mom and the other guppy from eating the babies?
dads not in there just mom and i plan on taking her out after
the 9 females 4 males are in my 55 gallon tank with other fish
will stuff like unused candle holders and stuff be good enough as deco all my other deco is in my 55 gallon
Thanks so much for taking the time to read this all im definately going to pick the best answer i always do:)

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Help?? WITH GUPPY FRY?

Posted on August 2, 2010 by admin| 5 Comments

My guppy fry are in my 4 gallon breeder tank. i have been feeding them finely crushed flakes but i want to know how to give them egg yolk i dont get that. By egg yolk does that mean you boil and egg and open the egg to the core and take out that boiled egg yolk and drop it in the tank? or is it something else? They dont sell brine shrimp eggs at my local petsmart i dont know what else to give them besides the crushed flakes help?

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Is hot glue poisonous to fish?

Posted on May 5, 2010 by admin| 5 Comments

ok i made a breeding net, one made of hot glue sticks, glued together by hot glue, and surrounded by nylon. I would like to know if this would be hazardous to my clownfish? I am going to store live brine shrimp in it and my regular breeder nets holes are 2 big the shrimp can fit right through.
Thanks

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Betta Breeder’s Again…what did I do wrong?

Posted on December 24, 2009 by admin| 5 Comments

I have spawned 2 broods…both lived for only a week, then they died. I feed them Small Fry food for the first week and had not yet started them on brine shrimp. I looked into getting a sponge filter, but the people at the pet store said that I did not need it (all the research says to though). I can not find one anywhere in my area. Is the filter my problem? I have an airstone, but again, the pet store said it was not needed. I have a bio filter that came with the tank (5 gal), and I thought about putting foam and small mesh (to keep the babies from being sucked to the foam) around the intake to use as a filter. Will that work? I don’t want to spawn again and loose those too.
OH! I do add salt to the aqu.

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