Anyone who is a BETTA BREEDER here? I need to find someone who can provide me starter culture or microworms or other alternative cultures... You know, food for betta frys

Breeding my bettas is not a problem.. my male betta and his "harem" of "girls" get along well and dont even hurt each other during mating... BUT my problem is.. Brine shrimp are expensive (I buy the eggs from the shops), and they don't hatch quickly enough, and only 50% of the total quantity of BS eggs... A real waste of money...


My frys grow fast from hatching til 3 weeks old, when they die off of starvation
Thats because I can't provide enough live food (insofuria, bs) for them to eat.. they don't eat the powdered flakes nor frozen bloodworms...

the sad thing is, at 3 weeks old, the bigger frys chase their smaller siblings to eat.. but the smaller siblings get away.. so the bigger frys ironically dies off 1st... So sad...

Anyone who cultures live food? Like microworms, or others? Thanks! I would reli appreciate it, if anyone can give or sell starter cultures to me... I live in PJ area... Thanks!

Hey, I know this little shop that sells gorgeous veiltails.. and a few crowntails.. tho the veiltails are better looking, the CTs look like farm rejects lol. KNow KL sentral? the pathway from kl sentral to monorail? at that pasar malam like area there's a pet shop there... i get my beautifully coloured bettas from there, and its real cheap too, males only go for rm3, females rm2 one word of caution though, be sure to buy the blue methadine thing too.. i find without it, fishes from there get the white fungus immediately the day after lol

HAhaha I wont post up any photos cuz i only got lousy hp camera, cant see properly, its takes bad pics esp of aquariums lol.. LEt kenji_britney check out the shop then u can ask him Initially I thought that shop sells chapalang animals only, but dun underestimate before going in lol.

That shop has LOTS of bettas, of various colours.. not only the mixed ice-kacang colours but sometimes even pure (one-coloured) bettas.. I got a dark-blue bodied male with white milky transparent fins, and some camobdiaon colured females and yellow and white females Bettas there generally have good temperament too, for example, my male betta is a caring father who takes care of his babies even until they r 3 weeks old lol.. and two of my female Bettas are surrogate Mums.. means they take care of frys which isnt theirs (I did not breed from them lol)...

I luv my Bettas

The shop btw kl sentral and monorail has female bettas too... Oh yeah, if you're lucky, the shop has re-stocked that day when u go, then you can see lots of good looking bettas, males and females there ... of course.. if ur unlucky and end up going at the time when there's only unwanted fish left, well.. Hahaha.... Good luck

which pond you catch ur betta from?

Hey, very pretty Recently I bought another new royal red male betta from kl sentral too.. But this new guy died within 2 weeks.. I didn't get to breed from him at all Such a pity he was so big and beautiful Maybe cuz he was too stressed out being bullied by my female fishes that I tried to pair him up with

See I have loyal female fishes, they only tango with my previous male fish LOL

Don't worry, the water in the fishes tank isn't hot, it's actually a lot cooler than the outside. Also, bettas' natural habitat is from a hot climate ie : malaysia. So they are accustomed to this weather anyways. One of the reasons why I only keep bettas. They are hardy fish --> Easy maintainance

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Added on June 16, 2008, 5:14 pmYeap! My previous male fish had many "temporary wifes" He breed successfully with all of them, about 5 or 6 of them "wifes" He even cares for the frys til they are 3 weeks old, probably longer if the frys hadn't died due to malnutrition Cuz I didn't have enough BBS to feed them so them baby fishes died off after 3 weeks for every successful spawn. Le sigh.

Anyways, I'm going to KL Sentral again next week (on the way to go for some freelance job training )
So I'll definitely stop by my fav shop there and get at least two males fishes this time. Back-up "husband"
(p.s. I hope they restocked the fishes the day Im going there )

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Added on June 16, 2008, 5:18 pmBeautiful yellow colour.. I'm guessing someone dumped their pet betta in the field lol

This post has been edited by shecapricorn: Jun 16 2008, 05:18 PM

LOL. No way kenji. 3 weeks is still too small to eat anything. Go here for a chart with photos of a betta's growth. Then you'll know what I mean. LOL
http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/bettagrowth.html

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Added on June 16, 2008, 9:04 pmNO starving, NONO. Feed the bettas the best food available.. I feed mine frozen bloodworms.. You shd be able to buy a tray of them for rm2.50 at the local fish shop... One cube of bloodworms can easily feed up to 4-5 adult bettas.. My fished love this food lol and won't eat anything else unless its live food like mosquitoes, ants, etc.

Then allow the bettas to flare through a clear separator for a few hours LOL. Oh yeah, also, by feeding bloodworms, you can position the food above the water, so that the betta will jump out to eat the food Bit by bit you can increase the height of the food above the water and yeah, thats a way to "train" the bettas to be stronger physically, if that's what you meant

This post has been edited by shecapricorn: Jun 16 2008, 09:04 PM

Where you got these from yewlin?

Just head to any aquarium shop, n ask for "frozen worms". They shd have it.. they keep it in the fridge.. so u gotta ask the shopkeeper

Sometimes, they just DONT click. lol. Try get another male or female. Or try like what i do. put them in the same container (the small ones with plastic blue hard net in the middle)... then fed them good food, then wait n let the female jump over to the male's side herself lol..........

Haha... LEt the female do what she wants.. sometimes, (give some time about 1week, 2 weeks of u r patient) its the male who is fussy about which type of female he likes... As long the female is jumping here n there herself, she's safe n sound, no worries Just check the water surface, see of there's a bubble nest, n see CLOSELY whether got eggs or not Sometimes it's hard to see the eggs (Duh! Eggs are small size as the bubbles n only slightly diff colour lol).. sometimes there will be only a few eggs (less than 100) but ONCE u think there's enuf eggs in there u can remove the female n let the male jaga the eggs...

zzzzzzz buy from kl sentral there lo... Dun so kiamsiap lol very cheap edi there lol

Hahaha... If selling veiltails at rm5 is a rip-off definitely... But if show-quality fishes like crowntail, plaket, HM, etc.. Rm 5 is like so very cheap edi hahaha....

U can use old cookie jars... Those plastic containers which is used to keep sweets like in the mamak stall one.. hehe.. just a suggestion.. or u can go any aquarium shop, they shd have it... But the small square containers the shop use is too small for my betta.. i use those cookie plastic contaners.. much bigger, n i need not change the water so frequently.. just use a big straw (i use the 7eleven slurpee straw - with the spoon part cut off) to suck up the fish poo. ^^

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Added on July 7, 2008, 3:59 pmBettas are easy to care for, they are hardy creatures. only make sure ur water is DECLORINATED properly. otherwise, any sort of water also will do, as long it is clear of fish poo n rotting plants. personally, i even let a little algae grow because some of my fishes eat it as well. And no, I havent been starving my fish. lol

This post has been edited by shecapricorn: Jul 7 2008, 03:59 PM

NO LA yuck la i dun use my mouth of course lol... I apply a little physics that i learned in form 5.. lol.. before u put the straw in the water, plug/block one end with ur thumb then only put the straw in the water. To suck up the fish poo, release ur thumb and let the atmospheric pressure outside the strw do its work, water and poo will be auto sucked up into the straw - and quickly, while the water is being sucked up halfway thru the straw, immediately block the top end of the straw again to transfer the dirty water and fish poo into another container. After u suction all the fish poo adi then u can throw away the fish poo into ur potted plants lol

I cant use the syphon method for my case, because i dun keep my fishes in a really big jar lol.. i clean my water almost everyday so its not tedious for me:P

Yes, females do make bubbles.. All my females make bubbles (a few even as much as the males zzzz).. Its good sign, shows ur girls are very healthy and happy ^^ and, very fertile as well lol.. Sometimes, when the females' bubbles are big enuf, i used to drop a few eggs inside to kacau them:P then the females will jaga the eggs like the real mummy:P

Erm.. The betta forum is just like this lowyat forum.. Registration is free..

Pricing starts from rm50+? PLs correct me if im wrong, thx