My Betta hendra group consisting of adults, juveniles and fry, are thriving. At present, I have at least a dozen female juveniles that are around the 2-3cm mark. I also have a single juvenile male who is developing well, and who looks more like the original male each day.
The adult pair still spawn from time to time, but I have noticed a slow-down now that the juveniles are getting bigger, and approaching breeding size themselves. However, there was a group of fry that became free-swimming only a few days ago so perhaps so of these will go on to survive predation by their siblings. I look forward to seeing how this F1 group of fish mature, as so far things seem very promising. I am hoping to see another male or two emerge, as the eventual goal would be to pass on some sibling pairs to other breeders. I have noticed a substantial difference when feeding fry differences in their diet. I would feed artemia to my fry and go from there as they grew but I started an infusoria culture and used that in conjunction and for some reason growth rate sped up substantially. Actually very noticably so. I made the culture by freezing and thawing a piece of bananna peel so it was one big bruised peel and added it to aged tap water and placed it in the sun. I fed that in conjunction with the artemia . Comments are closed.
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AuthorLocated in Melbourne, Australia, I currently keep and breed a number of species from the coccina complex. Archives
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