Culling means killing them either by feeding to other larger predatory fishes, flush them to the toilet, freeze them to death n etc. etc. u get the idea

Yeah up till certain extend and it won't be as nice as it is initially

I just age the water overnight and sometimes add some salt if the fish seems like not feeling too well

Sent her to heaven??? when you've put the pair into the spawning tank, did the male wallop the female badly???

Errr dude you don't just dump the female in like that, you need to condition the pair first before you can start breeding. You need to make them healthy enough to go through the strainous process of breeding as the male won't be taking any food for a few days. Besides, you should consider looking for signs that they are ready to breed before you just dump them in. Once the male has built a massive bubble nest and the female is flaring like crazy showing vertical stripes, the pair is ready. I doubt your pair of betta will be ready for your current attempt since i dun think you condition them. At this rate you'll be killing every single female you're getting and the male will k.o pretty soon too.

This post has been edited by evildonkey: Dec 7 2006, 01:41 PM

There's no such thing as peace out in betta breeding and it's their courtship ritual to chase and flare with one another therefore both male and female must be ready and willing to spawn. i suggest you go google and readup some articles regarding betta breeding before you give it a try. Besides you have to get ready fries food before your pair starts breeding else your effort will be in vain if they managed to spawn but the fries couldn't survive and die of starvation.

No they won't be lonely when u put 2 bettas side by side and let them flare with each other. Letting 2 bettas fight one another isn't fun but cruel. I suggest you get yourself some guppies if you wan your fishes to get intimate with one another. Bettas are meant to be kept alone unless your rearing them in a 2ft tank with plenty of places to hide then you'll be able to let your bettas have "fun" but still you'll see them with torn fins as they'll fight one another when they meet

Bro yewlin sales time again??? wat colour r u having now??? your gold female spawn de???

Saw some plants in the tank you're keeping your hm and the tail split might be caused by the plants. I believe it's tored when your hm is swimming between the plants. Seen it happened to one of my hm b4 but the tear healed after a few days

super black x gold??? hhmm....wouldn't tat be kinda wasting for the super black??? anyway i think i'll be grabbing some bf hm from you after i've setup my barrack system...got bitten by the patterned bug reccently hehe

Not automated yet...considering a semi auto flush system. Is your next batch of bf an outcross to eugene's line or directly from eugene's line??

Nop not yet still in planning stages now...estimated to be starting after next yeat CNY will take a pic to show it here once i've assemble everything

yewlin nice fish there, that's the hm version of your sala line??

Fin rot??? is it kept inside your drip system?? hhmm....that's the thing about hm, if you don't provide them with optimum surroundings their finnage will be gone in no time...I NEED A DRIP SYSTEM!!!! so i can keep n breed hm hehe

This post has been edited by evildonkey: Dec 19 2006, 09:51 PM

wow...yewlin show hand his betta collection de hehe

here's mine some newly jarred royal blue fries


This is the largest dude in the spawn





This lil fella is fierce, chasing his sibling 1/2 of his/her size...can't sex him/her yet.

http://www.bcbetta.com/fishroom.html

Take a look at the barracks section. That's an automated drip system barrack with a central sum tank to filter out fish waste n then pump the filtered water back into the individual jars. Water changes will only be made through the sump tank....really make life helluva easier for those who kept hundreds of bettas like yewlin. Yewlin posted his drip system barrack before but i think it's in the old thread that has been deleted.

Nolar where got sifu even sifu jit still keeping quite i where dare to admit hehe

How come throw into river?? u r just being humble leh this is the offsprings from the blue/turqoise hmpk pair i got from you wert

i luv the 2nd hmpk finnage is tat 8-ray???damn nice la but if the anal shorter then best de...izzit your sala line cross with your blue hmpk line???

This post has been edited by evildonkey: Dec 24 2006, 09:00 PM

alamak sala x sala come out like dat??? did u outcross your sala before?? coz the anal really very diff from your other salas

Usually female can be distinguished by the white dot underneath their belly and they shows vertical stripes while flaring when they are ready to breed...wild bettas on the other hand, you'll have to check out which strains are you planning to keep and google for more info on how to sex them because there's other traits that needed to be checked that isn't neccessary in sexing show betta...there's always a general rule though that is the male usually shows better colouring compared to female when they are in breeding mood.

Agree with jaspery...for starters try mahachai/smaragdina/imbellis coz they are easy to keep...there's even a pair of smaragdina if i've not mistaken spawned during aquafair...when i pack them up during bench out saw so many fries in there