Betta channoides

[Emokidz]

Yup, but prolific ones are hard to come by. Some have experienced keeping 5 - 10 pairs of channoides without ever having a single male hold to term. Prior to this pair, my channoides never held. I told Mudskipper about it too during my visit to his place. The pair I passed to you was previously from him too. It's the same male who held his first brood all the way from woodlands to kovan! I hope his offspring inherit tat same tenacity too.. Haha.

[Shi Xuan]

I share the same sentiment. I hope this is an inheritance trait and that would only show when the fry reaches breeding age. The fry are IMO, very easy to raise. I have been feeding them microworms and artemia nauplii. I'll switch them to grindals when they are big enough and that will probably be the time they go on a growth spurt.

I have the pair separated for now but would probably spawn the pair one last time before retiring the female to my community tank.

[Emokidz]

Haha yup. The pair is quite a prolific one. So long as the community tank mates are peaceful and gentle, I'm sure she will be able to get food and do well in there. Oh yes SX, is that B. smaragdina in your avatar?

[Shi Xuan]

Oh yes SX, is that B. smaragdina in your avatar?

Yes, that's B.smaragdina in my avatar. The fish and photo is from Kenjiro Tanaka, a Japanese killifish, betta and livebearer breeder, from what I see. I have only traded with him once for a packet of killifish eggs, Callopanchax occidentalis Malai, SL 03-11 and that's all.

[Mudskipper]

It's quite strange but the pairs I got from stores in the past never bred, maybe cause they were too old or too stressed. It was't until I got a few younger pairs from different breeders in the region that I was successful with channoides. As Bernard stated, the fish he got held the brood all the way from my place to his and keep holding. Quite a few other bros have told me the same. Another bro just emailed me yesterday telling me the channoides he bought from me a weekend ago had released a ton of fries. He has other pairs from stores that have not bred or even tried to. Maybe it's genetic thing, maybe it's luck. Who's to say? I just generally feel that if you are good to your fish, they'll be good to you. Love your fishes, everyone!

[Emokidz]

.... I just generally feel that if you are good to your fish, they'll be good to you. Love your fishes, everyone!

True that!

[Shi Xuan]

I hope it's very well a genetic thing. Then, I can have a species that puts guppies to shame. The B.channoides fry are growing relatively fast, and they are now about the size of a guppy fry or larger. I think I am going to need the tank space to house all the juveniles very soon.