My most recent achievement that made me proud was producing a couple of successful batches of Betta antuta, which, as far as I know, is the rarest species of wild betta in the hobby.
Someone asked for another calico video. We have 3 tanks of these. In this particular tank we have blended in some hi fin genetics from a hi fin pure orange female (That did nothing to change the fry she produced unfortunately). We are currently trying to blend in some genetics from a sunset female who you can see here. The goal is to attempt to increase the intensity of the red portion at the rear of the calico bodies. In the other 2 tanks of blue mountain calicos that we have we have kept the genetics pure.
Nobody ever gets nipped or put in a corner but the dominant saulosi do chase.
I've had these saulosi since they were about 0.5". I got them I think at the beginning of November of 2025. I've gotten many fry from them. The OB peacock and zebra were gifts from a fish buddy. Everybody gets along. I know the diets for mbuna and peacocks are different but I'm having great success feeding 50% NLS Algaemax andn 50% Tetra Cichlid flake+ I throw in duckweed every couple of days. Only live plants in here are the anubias on the right and the hornwort on the left. The anubias is very unhappy in this tank. I might have to replace it with a silk plant soon.
This morph seems to get to a larger adult size than most other platys we've kept. Pattern is variable between individuals. But just a really cool platy morph
Most of the artifacting you see here is poor video capture. I'm still learning. Mod looks good though.
Also the bettas spawned again it was too close to last spawn so I fed their favourite flake to convnince the male to swallow his eggs. If you watch his chin you can see him swallow here then he starts to eat. The male spit fry about 10 days ago and I'm raising the fry in a separate tank. Though these two mate often the male is good at watching his health and won't hold eggs if it means major weight loss. He also swallows if I provide certain foods that he really likes, so he's easy to control the weight on. Just glad these two are feeling good again. My new phone doesn't capture their colors properly I'm still figuring out the settings. I went from a Pixel 9 to a Galaxy S25. Thanks for watching!
I have baby betta antutas. Released by the male about 9 days ago. They are doing well. Once I spotted the babies I moved the parents to their new tank, which I had been planning to move them to all along. The new tank for the parents is a 30 gallon cube. The babies are doing well but the parents are upset after their move.
Question: Since I moved the parents, they have been quite grumpy. The male often hides and the female hangs out and looks around but is grumpy and colored down. Both fish eat ok and come out for food. the new tank is aquasoil like the old tank same parameters. I can only figure maybe the light is bugging them but I did turn the lights way down for a few days and the parents were still acting weird. Other times I've moved the pair they have been fine. Actually one time when I moved them to a new tank they mated within 5 minutes.
Does anyone have any idea why the parents are grumpy?
These two lovely individuals have finally blessed my fishroom with some babies. The male was swallowing the eggs every time but somehow he found the will power and made it through this time. Not many babies but at least 5 I counted.
What do I do?? I have another barely populated planted tank with the same parameters as the parents current tank. Should I move both adults to the other tank and let the fry grow out in safety? What do I do?
TLDR my multis won't grow. Help?
7 or 8 weeks ago I got 7 baby multis from my friend in a trade we did. The remaining fish from this batch back at his place are much larger now while mine are not growing.
Tank: 10 gallon standard. 2 small sponge filters, 1 small hang on back with a pre filter foam, bucket filled with biomedia and crushed coral. Substrate: quartz sand and aragonite mix. Decor: 2 pieces of old dead reef rock that we use in all the african tanks here. Currently there are a few endler guppies living in the upper waters in here. They were put in as dither fish because the multis were initially a bit shy. So far no problems. Once these multis get bigger I had planned to move them into a similar layout20 gallon tank where they could really build a colony. They would have the 20 gallon to themselves.
I know I need more shells but I never see them using the shells they have now and there are 14 shells in here for 7 cichlids.
pH stays at 8-8.2 which is what the water comes out of the tap at, and hardness and kH stay at about 12-16 which should make tanganyikans quite comfortable. The breeder is using the same water parameters and temperature as me, and he has success while I do not.
Temperature is 76F.
The tank has quite a few floating plants and these keep the nitrates at undetectable levels. I do water changes @ 20% every 7 days. Dechlorinated with seachem safe (powdered version of prime).
Now, they do eat. They prefer powdered food so I feed the Aquarium Co-op magic small fish feed as well as powdered cichlid flakes, and I give them shrimp wafers which they also peck at. Every time food is offered which is 2-3x per day, they do eat quite a bit of it. They never refuse food. They show no signs of illness or discomfort as far as I can see, and water quality as far as what I can test is good. I can't really afford the extortion level prices on frozen fish food where I live in Ontario Canada. It used to be in my budget and I had a freezer full all the time but they want like $30 for a small cube 12 pack now and I just can't. I am building up a colony of grindal worms and will soon begin feeding them to all my small fish, and I am planning to get decapsulated artemia (shelled brine shrimp eggs) which I've used before. You just soak and feed fish love it. My source is out of stock but getting some soon.
Anyways something doesn't add up here. I know these fish don't have parasites because their batch siblings are almost full grown already at the breeder's house.
Help??