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    Betta channoides mating (Picture intensive!)

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    Managed to capture the breeding ritual of Betta channoides.

    Lead Actor


    Lead actress in her "wedding dress"


    Courtship dance that went on for hours






    This is the most interesting part of the ritual. The male will assume this position with eggs on his body for the female to pick into her mouth. Video of this will be posted shortly


    YouTube - betta channoides mating2
    YouTube - betta channoides mating3

    The dance last afew seconds each time and the male will pull away


    Female with eggs in her mouth


    She spits the eggs out and take them back into the mouth again very quickly, not allowing the male to take them. I suspect this is a behavior for adjustment of eggs in her mouth


    YouTube - betta channoides mating4

    Once the dance is finished, the male resumes a postion above the female and pecks her head to get her to release the eggs


    YouTube - Betta channoides mating1


    Female releasing the eggs


    Mouth brooding male
    Last edited by genes; 10th Mar 2008 at 20:43. Reason: embed youtube videos
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    beautiful shots as usual genes very pretty fish you have. hope your spawn produces lots of fry

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    Thumbs up Fantastic set of photos

    Kudos to genes, fantastic set of pictures.

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    Thanks. Pity the tank was not set up properly for photo shoots. So please do not mind the poor quality photos.
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    think the quality of photos already super good liao!!
    well done and thanks for the nice pictures!!
    so long never see betta spawn liao.. :P

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    thanks genes for the very nice and interesting pictures, awaiting your video with great excitement!
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    Great updates, looking forward to see your fries.

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    this shot made my jaws drop..the details, sharpness and timing of this shot is amazing..wish i could shoot like that

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    Very good pictures taken at such great timing.....its very interesting to see the spawning behaviour.....my male always seem to swallow the eggs
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    Nice series.

    Breeders have 2 headaches.
    One is that the male more often than not swallows the eggs.
    Two is that once they've successive spawns, no tank space.
    God will make a way, where there seems to be no way

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    Hi Eugene, whats the ph of this tank? Is it the same tank you post in my thread? Thanks!

    My indonesian breeder is keeping his wild bettas in bare tanks with Ketapang leaves.....
    Quite tempted to switch to that setup....his tank ph is almost neutral too
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    Uploaded the videos below the pictures. I never measure the pH nor use ketapang leaves. Tank is just ADA amazonia.
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    Eugene,
    Beautiful photos, wish I could shoot like that too.
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    May i ask how difficult to breed these b. channoides? Can someone PM me how much a pair cost and which LFS carry them?

    Thanks

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    your photo taking skills is superb!! but need to improve on your video skills.. :P
    nice shot there!! my, the eggs are quite big!!

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    wow... It's like watching a documentary. It would be great if there're more of such posts!
    Cheers,
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    wow bro..

    nice photo shots and video of the process of the betta breeding behavior..
    This is my first time see how betta breed..
    Thanks for sharing.

    very INTERESTING!

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    Betta channoides are not difficult to breed. I did not do anything at all to specially incite them to breed. Just placed the pair in a small 1ft cube tank that i didn't even bother cleaning. Thats why you see the mass of black brush algae and brownish water. Have not change water for 3 weeks. This is their 2nd attempt mating in a month.
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    thanks bro.

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    Video no longer available, what happen?

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