BettaObsessed Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 I was rearranging my fish last night and this morning to accommodate one with velvet and to just fill some empty spaces. I had my new male (a donation from a friend ) in my barracks and I put the combtail (one that I purchase as a female but had turned out to be a male) into the barracks next to him. When I got up this morning the male/female combtail was looking huge with eggs and had an egg spot showing. I put a few hiding spaces into a tank (one that was holding cycled water), put him in, put her in a chimney. Went out for 2 hours, come back to a nice sized bubble nest in both the tank and the chimney. Removed the chimney and they were wrapping within 5 minutes. This is without them having laid eyes on each other before last night. They have now been wrapping for close to an hour and she looks not much smaller than when I put her in. I would guess that there are already well over 100 eggs in that bubble nest. Neither of them are bothered by me laying here taking photos and watching (the tank is on the floor!) so I'm getting lots of pics Now I'm scared! What have I done??? LOL I don't have room for that many babies. This will be a "leave the father in and hope he culls a few" spawn. My other spawn from last weekend (see, I'm crazy!) still has the father in the spawn tank and no troubles at all with them. So now I have 1 spawn of turquoise/royal crowntail/round tail/vt(?) and 1 that will be red/blue combtail/crowntail! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melbournebetta Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 "oops" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BettaObsessed Posted July 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 I'll work it out. Can't be much worse than the lot I have now and seeing as I have lost around half of my fish in the last 3 months that should mean there's plenty of room They're done now, well he is.....she keeps coming back for more . This is what the nest looks like.... Maybe not as many as I thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BettaObsessed Posted July 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2011 Appears all will be ok after all. Have come home from work to only a handful of eggs left. At a guess I would say only 40-50 eggs there. Some have hatched, others don't look too far off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kertaz Posted July 25, 2011 Report Share Posted July 25, 2011 A birth to a spawn log? :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BettaObsessed Posted July 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2011 Not yet. Especially after so many were missing when I got home today. Will wait until I have some swimming around in there first :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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