Crown Tail Betta Spawn

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Does the little one die?

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She (the little one is the female) may if you leave her in there. She'll eat the eggs and babies so the male may kill her to protect the bubble nest.

Once I got home from dinner she was hiding in the corner and a little beat up so I knew they were done. They were at it for over 6 hours this afternoon.

I dip netted her out and put her back in a separate tank to revive. They're actually tough little fish.

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pretty cool

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It's a hobby... something to do and care for.

It's challenging, and rewarding. Anybody can buy a fish and keep it alive, but to get a pair to spawn and raise the fry is kind of a feather in your cap in the aquarium enthusiast community.

My mom was really into it when I was younger. She showed me a lot, but with the internet you can get all the info you need these days.

My mom never could get discus to do it either... they can be difficult just to keep.

African chiclids are a fun somewhat challenging fish to get to do it. They're the only thing I've had much success with besides live bearers.

I had one rock that they loved, although the retarded ones would spawn on the glass and those would of course die or get eaten. Out of hundreds of the things I probably only got about twenty of them to full grown. Fantails. Gorgeous things.

And yeah, if you can keep discus alive, you're pretty much peaking as an aquarium owner. Getting them to spawn would be like Aquaman shite. I had some huge ones for awhile. Then one weekend I got a bad infestation of hole in the head and it was over shortly thereafter. Never tried them again although IMHO that's the prettiest freshwater fish around.