After a prolonged courtship and a slow first spawning, my biggest F1 Betta brownorum male now has a small nest of eggs in one of the film canisters. The female he spawned with, was his mother, and it was interesting to see the difference in behaviour between her and her son, as opposed to her and the original male. If these eggs hatch, I'm going to pull the fry once they become free-swimming and raise them in a separate grow-out. I don't often do this with my wilds, but I don't want his effort to go to waste, and I am admittedly curious as to how fry from this particular cross are going to turn out.
Eric Corcoran
20/4/2014 09:05:10 pm
I recently had my pair of brownorum spawn. I removed the film canister once the fry were free swimming and am raising them in a tank on their own. A few fry were left in with the parents and seem to be doing as good as the removed fry
Ashlea
21/4/2014 09:52:01 am
Congrats on the spawn. Depending on the pair, I've found brownorum one of the harder species from this complex to work with. Comments are closed.
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