Maui + Kula Spawn!

[bckrazy]

^.~ 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...

[bckrazy]

Kula checks out the nest... then destroys it, just to mess with Maui


Mooom, Kula jacked up my nessst!


The first embrace, it was not tight at all, so no eggs came out at first -.-


they did it!!! (and then they did it again, and again, and again)


EGGS! don't worry, Kula is not dead, females just go through a paralyzed state for a few seconds after each embrace


aww, Mommy and Daddy worked together to collect the eggs and blow them into the nest this was the best part


Maui was awesome.. he worked non-stop on moving his eggs around, blowing more bubbles, and rotating them so they wouldn't fungus.


Here's my little man today ~ tending to his newly-hatched little devils! ^-^ I swear, for every couple of fry he puts back into the nest, 10 more fall! He's been working non-stop, like the wonderful Daddy that he is. If you look *really* closely, the fry are those dark clusters, and you can see a few tails hanging down. The pics are dark because I didn't want the bright flash to startle Maui.




That's it! for now... =D

[flamepony12]

Ahhh! ^.^ Finally! Erica, I'm so excited! I can't wait for my boy. PM me with updates as often as you can!

[LuvGold00]

YAY!!!!! This is so exciting!!! Congratulations!

Any chance of getting a boy, or am I too late?

[tikeyas_mom]

Great photos!!! i bet they'll make some really pretty/hansome babies

[IRescue452]

Wow how exciting! I can't wait to see how the babies turn out.

[ramanth]

Those photos are so cool! I've never seen the courtship and nesting before. Your detail is awesome!

My sister had a male and female but they were out of sync I guess or just didn't like each other. When he'd make a nest, she wasn't and vice versa.

I was told if both are making nests that means they are ready to mate and you can put them together. Is that correct?

[bckrazy]

*snug* thanks for all the nice comments!! Anna, one Betta spawn can produce anywhere from 50-500 eggs. They're usually in the 100-200 range, which I believe mine is.

I was told if both are making nests that means they are ready to mate and you can put them together. Is that correct?

hehe. Sorry hon, girls don't make nests ^_~... the female does not take care of the eggs at all ~ you add the female into the spawn tank (preferably into a breeding trap, so you can allow them to check each other out safely at first) when the male has started a nice bubblenest and when the female is showing "breeding bars" and her belly is swollen with eggs. I'd go into more detail, but Betta spawning is suuuper involved. Here's a good link! You should e-mail it to your Sis too, it has a lot of good info about when, how, and what you need to spawn, its a VERY tough project... I just spent 3 grueling hours syphoning out the bottom of my spawn tank (the hardest part is making sure you don't syphon up fry, and when you do you have to pick them out of the bucket while trying not to pick out any of the junk you just syphoned!!! ughhh, its annoying. LOL), slowly adding in 1 gallon of aged water, then feeding some microworms to the little piggies

http://bettatalk.com/breeding_bettas.htm
(check out their stock page, too! this is where I bought my spawning pair from... Faith is sooo awesome)

[anna_66]

Anna, one Betta spawn can produce anywhere from 50-500 eggs. They're usually in the 100-200 range, which I believe mine is.

Wow no kidding! Now, does that mean your going to have that many bettas? Do you know if they will be male/female? Sorry but I have no idea about how that works

[ramanth]

Thanks for the info. We were young and didn't have the internet back then. I don't think she's interested in trying to spawn Betta's now. She's got her hands full with a dog, cat, boyfriend, and college.

[bckrazy]

Thanks for the info. We were young and didn't have the internet back then. I don't think she's interested in trying to spawn Betta's now. She's got her hands full with a dog, cat, boyfriend, and college.

I totally understand... its such a wierd process, most people don't believe me when I first tell them about it. ^_~ I didn't know all of this until like last year.

[cocker_luva]

congrats