Marine Betta

Snoopy 67 · Feb 25, 2021

I would for sure send them a video.

ThRoewer · Feb 25, 2021

Snoopy 67 said:
I would for sure send them a video.

Already done! And I sent them a picture of the dead fish this morning.

Fudsey · Feb 25, 2021

That's pathetic.... Another reason to boycott Diver's Den.....

Sad

ThRoewer · Feb 25, 2021

Fudsey said:
That's pathetic.... Another reason to boycott Diver's Den.....

Sad

Yeah, after this I'm done with them.
They really went downhill fast since Petco's dissolution of Drs. Foster & Smith in 2019. And them being spun off as independent company didn't improve things either.

ThRoewer · Mar 9, 2021

151 days old.
Took them out for a thorough tank cleaning and redecoration

After they calmed down a little:

154 days old in cleaned up tank with new housing unit

Hugh Mann · Mar 9, 2021

So many beautiful baby bettas!
What do you plan to do with them as they grow?

ThRoewer · Mar 9, 2021

Hugh Mann said:
So many beautiful baby bettas!
What do you plan to do with them as they grow?

I keep a few as future broodstock, the rest gets sold - most will go to Biota.

Hugh Mann · Mar 9, 2021

Awesome. I doubt any will be available to me in Canada, but I am still very glad to see captive bred marine bettas. In my year of reefing, I have seen six or seven in stores, and only two have been healthy. Keep up the good work.

ThRoewer · Mar 9, 2021

Hugh Mann said:
Awesome. I doubt any will be available to me in Canada, but I am still very glad to see captive bred marine bettas. In my year of reefing, I have seen six or seven in stores, and only two have been healthy. Keep up the good work.

Biota ultimately intends to distribute them internationally once I can breed enough. I'm still in the ramp-up phase and trying to get more pairs. So far I have 3 pairs, but I will need at least twice as many to get a reliable supply of larvae. But by now I have juveniles of all 3 pairs and therefore will be able to make unrelated F1 generation pairs. But those will take a few years before I can expect any eggs from them...
I also have 4 singles:
- a large female, collection region unknown
- 2 medium-sized individuals from Australia that may be male and female or two females. So far they still fight when I put them together.
- a large specimen from the Philippines that may be a male, but it's too early to tell, I just goth that fish a week ago and it only now started to eat well enough.

And I still need to find a partner for my single C. argus... and ideally at least another pair. That is a species even more in need of being bred.

Fudsey · Mar 9, 2021

What is swimming around with them in the holding tank? Pods or lunch ?

ThRoewer · Mar 9, 2021

Fudsey said:
What is swimming around with them in the holding tank? Pods or lunch ?

Just a little snack to keep them busy...

ThRoewer · Mar 31, 2021

Of the first hatch 55 went to Biota.

Prepackaged for bagging at my local fish store:

Snoopy 67 · Mar 31, 2021

Congrats, did you get my chat messages?

OrionN · Mar 31, 2021

Well well, I got 2 beauties from Thomas today. I have to say that they are perfect little Beta's at 1 and 1+ inch. I cannot be any happier with the two I got. Here are a few pictures of them as I drip them into my QT tank.
They are only about 1 inch, I don't want them end up as Tusk food so I put them into my QT system.

ThRoewer · Mar 31, 2021

OrionN said:
Well well, I got 2 beauties from Thomas today. I have to say that they are perfect little Beta's at 1 and 1+ inch. I cannot be any happier with the two I got. Here are a few pictures of them as I drip them into my QT tank.
They are only about 1 inch, I don't want them end up as Tusk food so I put them into my QT system.

Great pictures!