I am a newbie betta owner.

I find out I did a mistake when I was away because my friend is spending time with me during new year and I am back home once a day to feed my fish.

I try to mate my male and female betta and left them overnight for 3 days

I think the mating process is successful because I saw lots of fry BUT both parents are dead

Both severely injured and died on the 1st day of CNY. Sigh !!

To honor them, I think I need to make sure the fry is alive as much as possible ... Dad is long tail deep blue in color and mum is white with red fins and tail half moon with one tiny black spot on the head.

I should have taken them out on day two when I saw there is a tiny black "thingy" on the bubble but I just left it one more day which end up tragically for both parents. Max is ONLY 2 days for mating .. I hope I will learn from my mistake and the fry grow as beautiful as their parents. Sadly I did not show off by taking pic of their parents .. Only memory left in my mind so vivid that I feel like sharing my first betta post here.

I hope I will be a betta care person in near future as I am just a proud owner for slightly more than a week.


Love always,

Blue and White spot, from Justin TT.TT

Hi all,

Can I ask if I can get micro worms from lfs ? I do not see any selling at Pudu Ulu or even in Pudu. Do I need to ask them directly ?

How lucky to have friends like yours. I am kinda new actually. I stay near Cheras lrt.

I bought before the red small thingy, should be like brine shrimp and it goes "smelly" and turn to dark brown after few days which I don't know why.

I see red worm sold before in Pudu, only once and it kinda "eew"

Have not know much anything about Daphnia.

I am trying out microworm to feed my betta, not the fry

No wonder it goes foul .. thanks for the info.

I did not hatch it my own. I buy frm lfs

Assuming if those betta do not take in microworm, I think it is fine right to keep one culture ?

I do not even have one and I have google the web and most of betta owner do have microworm culture TT.TT

I totally understand your view. It is just in case that the community tank i have spawn, at least I got the microworm in handy. I don't think of any other food to feed the fry if they really do exist in the first place.

I do not have much space

thanks for the info. that is useful to me and I will keep in mind

Can I know if anyone is using Java moss in their betta thank ?

I read betta books and most suggest Java moss .. Maybe I would like to get one small patch and Red snail/Ramshorn snail along .. Apple snail too aggressive from the info I had read

TT.TT currently I only put "ikan bandaraya" slightly bigger than my betta fish

Is there any other living creature as in snail to put along ?

I killed my betta accidentally I think .. will cover of the lid disrupted the air and kill betta subsequently ?

I remember seeing on of them in the morning fine .. Could leaving 2 female in a community tank end up one dead in just one day ?

I did try to make green water using aged water from tank and lettuce ?

Is it the same with infosuria ?

> hihi : Lol .. Why raised outside ? Can't do it in somewhere in the house like a balcony or did you do it in the garden ?

>kurikuraX : I have kinda clear green water with no smell at all which I'm wondering if there is any tiny micro creature inside and if I can use for the fish >.<

Can I know why the fish died after one week ..

This post has been edited by darkmusses: Mar 13 2014, 10:58 AM

Hmm, how to maintain them .. I don't even know how they look like ~.~