super red halfmoon plakats frys

[mademan2]

2 months old halfmoon super red plakats ( import from thailand), i transfer them all in a two 5 gallon tanks, and the rest are still in thier original breeding place, im guessing more than 50 survive and i have 2 more breeding container with 3rd batch one are BLACK ORANGE palakats (import from thailand). i use freshwater rotifers and artemia to feed the youngs, but the big guys on the 5 gallon tanks are also being fed with ATISON'S fry starter food. i use boiled water that i stored to replace the water once a week

this is a 1 year old super red plakat male from my 1st batch, i sold the rest here in hawaii.

http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/superred2.jpg

a pair of 5 gallon tanks with 15 frys each, the rest of the little one's still in the original breeding container ( seperating the big bullys, they some times eat ang kill the little one's)

http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/frys2.jpg
http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/frys.jpg

also here are some pics of my young bettas, females are not shown
i only took a picture of one juvenile from each batch

http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/green.jpg
http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/white.jpg
http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/whiteblue.jpg

one of my breeding containers, i have 3 im thinking of going five that way i wont delay breeding the rest of my betta pairs i have 7 pairs that are ready to breed

http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/tank1.jpg
http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/tank2.jpg

[Mgamer20o0]

nice pics.

[Ghost_knife]

Cool! good luck with the betta breeding!

[mademan2]

thanks for putting this post to the correct place, anyways im planning to build a huge breeding farm back in the philippines in the future, i live in a small town by the coastline of South china sea north west of the country, heres the area where im planning to do a breeding farm, also for clown fish and Discus. my family own this huge area, perfect for breeding farm, so im just saving money for equipments to start a mass breeding for Clown fish, Discus and Bettas, saltwater will be a no worry issue, ocean is just a feet away hehe, actually this south china sea water has clown fish

http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/area1.JPG
http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/area2.jpg

[pennylinx]

ooh, very neat and those bettas are quite superb in color and finnage even as youngsters!

[mademan2]

i carefully breed them, i monitor what i feed them, the newly hatch frys are being fed with freshwater rotifers and BBS. 2 hours before i feed them, i feed the rotifers and BBS culture with KENT MICRO-VET and ROTI-RICH, that way the frys will eat a very nutrious food, once the frys are big enough i feed them ATISON'S fry food and BBS. also when i boil the water, i add one dry almond leaf to make the boiled water brownish.

the adult bettas are being fed with live daphnia, atison betta pro, atison betta food and dry blood worms. i skip feeding the adults once a week to prevent swim bladder problems, also everytime i change the water i add one tea spoon of salt in the fry containers (done once a week).

also the stored boiled water with almond leaf also has some salt mix in it, i use it to change the adult betta water 2 times a week.

this is how i feed each adult and juvenile per day

daphnia ( live ) -> 2 pcs.
atison betta pro (pellets) -> 2 pcs.
atison betta food (pellets) -> 2 pcs.
dry blood worm - > 2 pcs.

thats all they get once a day per fish 6 days a week (i skip one day without feeding)

[Mgamer20o0]

why do you want the water brownish?

[mademan2]

why do you want the water brownish?

well the almond leaf helps to give bettas thyere natural sorroundings, i notice that they are more active with boiled almond leaf.

[mademan2]

my green halfmoon plakat breed for the first time
female pic not shown, rotifers are ready to be fed once the the frys hatch in 2 days, i have a 15 gallon drum of freshwater rotifers waiting for the frys.
it was a huge spawn, i notice those white thick eggs on the top of the bubble nest, they were doing the courtship for like 2 hours or more yesterday.
i never tried cross breeding colors yet, i wanna stay with the color line for now

http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/blueplakat.jpg

http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/blueplakat2.jpg

http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/green.jpg

[HiGhTiMeZ]

wow pare very good job on the breeding program!
i wish u luck on ur future program. mabuhay! :)

[fish_freak]

Very Nice!

[got2envy]

very cool! nice colors and fins

[jm1212]

looking good so far :)

[mademan2]

they finally hatch, those black dots on the bubble nest, now i have 4 days to keep my rotifers blooming, feeding them some green water and Roti-Rich double dose so hopefully i have more rotifers culture in 4 days before the 1st feeding:)

now i got too much baby plakats in my place

80+ 3 months old SUPER RED HM plakats
40+ 2 months old BLACK ORANGE HM plakats

and now these new frys in the block

http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/bluefrys.jpg

[Mgamer20o0]

very nice. keep us updated.

[Ghost_knife]

Nice!

[mademan2]

just some pics of my live food cultures outside my small balcony.

here are four 2 liter soda bottels with a dedicated green water food for daphnia and rotifers, also beside it is a 15 gallon drum of green water with daphnia culture and other micro organisims that live in there.

http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/greenwater.jpg

and now here is my other 15 gallon drum of dedicated fresh water rotifer cultures, if any member here live in honolulu hawaii let me know if you need a starter culture of fresh water rotifers, and ill give you a jar of it:)

http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/rotifers.jpg

[Rbishop]

All very nice!

[mademan2]

heres some updated, my green plakats are now over 2 weeks old since they were hatch FEB 1 2007, all frys are in excellent conditions, but still too small to show in a camera shot specially that they are now free swimming around and scatterd all over the place.

anyways here's a video showing my SUPER RED Halfmoon plakat frys, Hatch date Nov.2006, there where at least 60 frys from both 5 gallon tank and 20 more from the original breeding tank ( not shown ) these came from one SPAWN so i have a total of 80 frys survive, i think i have lost less than 20 frys from this spawn, and the other breeding tank beside it shows my BLACK ORANGE halfmoon plakats hatch date DEC. 2006. there where at least 50 frys, its a small spawn and since DEC. ive lost 2 frys. ( hehe i do count each lost, unless i never got to see it for some times ive seen them eating thier dead brothers and sisters )

you can right click and save it. size 17mb

http://www.honolulu-live.com/betta/video.MOV

from my observation or should i say from my point of view, the best way to get a high survival rate is feeding them fresh water rotifers and Artemia at the early stage, these organisms are being fed with ROTI-RICH mix with green water and MICRO-VET diet, these gives the rotifers and newly hatch artemia good nutrients that the frys can get once they eat them, even my green water culture are being fed with MICRO GROW so even the green water has nutrients.

after 2 months then i add ATISON's BETTA STARTER to thier feeding cycle, and thats my key! forget those nasty vinegar eel, micro worms etc. and heres a thing that ive just tried and it was a sucess, fresh water ROTIFERS dosen't need areation and will do better without it, also they don't really need light, they infact reproduce faster in the dark, i took out the areation in on 15 gallon plastic drum and now the rotifer culture are massive, you can see the thick white dots swimming on the surface, and i harvest them daily with a 53 micron zoo plankton collector and feed them to my small frys

[Rbishop]

Nice video! Thanks for the update. :D