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Ok, I've heard different things about the baby food. Is it brine shrimp eggs or baby brine shrimp? I'm hoping it little brine shrimps like the pet store told me, thats all they had so i picked up a bag of them for $2.69 theyre so tiny and cool looking

I took the male out today since he was being useless. He just kept sitting at the bottom of the tank all day like he didn't give a crap anymore. Theres tons of tiny bubble nests all around still. I've noticed a few fry maybe 3-5 total so far. They swim around the top of the water mainly. Is it ok to put in bbs yet? If so how many?

Nono, they'll be there

The bubblenest only lasts a few days, without the male there to rebuild it. Once the babies are free-swimming, they no longer require it.

Have you started feeding the BS yet? You can attract them with a light source and use a turkey baster to get them out, or you can sieve them through a paper dust mask

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

I still only see just afew on the water and the big bubble nest is gone, theres just tons of small nests now, does this mean it failed? =[

and yes, my brine shrimp hatched but i'm not sure about the baby bettas being ok? I still see some swimming around the top every now and then but the bubble nest now is only have size with a million little single bubbles -10+bubbles nests around the tank, is this ok?

I just woke up, I have no idea whats going on inside the tank. The bubble nest is about half its reg size and now theres a million single bubbles on top of the water spread throughout the tank.

OK, have you got your Brine Shrimp eggs hatching? you have about 2-3 days after the bettas hatch from eggs until they really need food.

You can feed the adult brine shrimp to your adult bettas they should love the way they need to chase them

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

o.o he's still taking care of his nest but i noticed a few very very tiny guys on the top of the water skimming around o.o they're so so tiny..

maybe late info, but

bettas(baby) are not large enough to egg brine shrimp, and they are saltwater so they dont last in the breeding tanks. with bring shrimp eggs it is best to hatch them a few days before the eggs hatch(alittle late info, good for next time)

males will often mouth eggs, which is a good sign, b/c his "spit" is an anti-fungal for the eggs, also he may move the eggs to different parts of the nest, and he may also repair the nest from time to time.

their are powder baby fish foods on the market which are good for the young to eat.

Ah, I went to another petland and this lady new what she was talking about it seemed. She showed me a vial which contains "brine shrimp eggs" it says theyre easy to hatch too
Ingredients "100% brine shrimp eggs" net wt 6gm. I hope these are fine, she didn't charge me the $4 for em since the other petland sold me the wrong things. She let me keep my lot of live brine shrimp... I have no idea what i'm gonna do with those o.o

They're very tiny but not dots. =\
Its like a sandwich baggy full of them. So tiny, probably a few hundred in it. They have 2 tiny eyes, a little little body with a tiny tail. Very very small. Its all they have around here ='

The pet store has sold you live baby brine shrimp? Just to be sure (because thats real fantastic service if they have, and pretty uncommon) are the shrimp like a few mm big or like a bouncing dot? they are going to have to be the size of a bouncing dot for the babies to eat them

And he will tend to the nest for a few days, spitting the eggs back into it if they fall, and corralling the kiddies for a day or two after they hatch

He *may* snack, but we ccan cross that bridge when we come to it

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

when he sticks his face intothe nest and vlows somthing back out, its good, means he is is cleaning the eggs, helping them hatch

and never feed shelled brine shrimp eggs to ffry it can and will kill them, i feed first bites, bbs, and deshelled brine shrimp eggs

Ok, due to my females tank being broken into pieces by an evil kitten we had no choice but to put her into a tank with a male a few days ago. The male and her actually get along great, no nipping, no agressiveness, they act great with each other. Ever since she went in days ago she got verticle stripes on her body but would turn him down everytime he tried to make a move.

Well today I walk in my room and see them under the bubble nest wrapped up into each other like a soft taco wrap. wth. She floats to the top into the nest like shes dead for 10 seconds then wakes up and swims around, he acts like he's taking care of stuff in the bubble nest but I never saw eggs come out of her..

That all happened 30 minutes ago, ever since then they've spawned 3 more times repeating it all.. Does she not have eggs or do I just not see them? He keeps going up to the nest and doing something quickly to it and she won't move out from under the nest either. They're both taking care of it but I don't see anything in it..

ah, he keeps swiming up under his nest and sticking his mouth in it like he's sucking stuff in and spitting it back out into the nest or something like that, is this normal?

Ok, I gotta go to the pet store for some ADFs from my roommates tank tomorrow. Do normal stores such as Petland normally sell brine shrimp and microworms to feed baby bettas? o.o

Oh if he doesn't eat them, they'll hatch in about 24-48 hours.

If you want to raise them, get hold of some brine shrimp eggs or microworms or vinegar eels

And a tank for the father to go in while you raise them

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

heres 2 quick pics from today

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I'm reading betta sites and triyng to figure out, now that I have eggs, is there a good chance that atleast some will hatch or a better chance they don't even hatch?

You can float the cup in the tank with the male so she stays warm Just make sure she can't tip the cup over or bounce out of it

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett