^.~ Hey you guys!! Sorry I haven't posted forEVER about my Bettas or anything... I've been super busy, with tarded High School. I have waay too much homework this year, its kind of insane. Aanyway, since I last posted about the fishies, I got 6 new Bettas! All females, because females are cooler. They really are soo much easier. So, I now have 2 males, 7 females (will post pics soon, I PROMISE), and I got 1 lone Munchkin Spotted Cory Catfish for free at a Betta auction <333 I named him Spot, heh!

And, the big news is, I finally spawned Maui and Kula! I put them in the tank on Friday evening, and by noon on Saturday they were spawning ~ they embraced for 2 hours straight!! Maui has a ginormous bubblenest, he's still in the tank tending to the babies who just hatched this morning. They have not begun to swim yet, but they're bouncing around the nest like little fiends. Maui is constantly chasing them around, picking them up in his mouth and blowing them back into the nest =0) he has been a wonderful Daddy! I'm really, really proud of Maui and Kula. There looks to be at LEAST 100 fry in there, which is AWESOME because I have a freakin huge waiting list already. Like everyone from my Betta club wants several, which is a ton of people! Hopefully the babies will turn out just like Mom and Pops!

getting off track now.... here are the pictures of the spawn and a couple that I just took of the bouncing babies! Maui was NOT a nice boy to Kula. She got her anal fin torn 3 times, and she has a few nips in her caudal. They're both super aggressive, flarey Bettas so they really clashed at first. It was amazing how gentle they were with each other when they were spawning though ~ then, when she ran outta eggs, he went right back after her heh, luckily I was able to net her right away, before they could duke it out again! All in all, it has been a really great first spawn so far wish my luck with getting healthy beautiful babies, you guys.


DADDY ~

<--- taken right before the spawn, with meh new Canon!!!

MOMMY ~



The "Loveshack" ~ 1/2 filled 10gal with 12 plants, an Indian Almond Leaf, a small breeding trap for introducing Kula, a bubbler and a small heater


She was so peeved in the breeding trap ^.^ it was funny!


Right when I released her, she raced over to Maui to show him who's boss - and he took a chunk out of her anal fin! ughhha.


Where's Kula?


There she is ;0P




More coming, of course...