Norton's Aquatics

10/10/2021

Everyday there is more and more guppy fry! There’s about 30 or even more that have arrived this week alone

01/10/2021

These crystal reds have been in for over 24 hours and one seems to have moulted already. Let’s hope I get some breeding soon

28/09/2021

Look at all the eggs this Amano shrimp is carrying!

20/09/2021

Wow a year ago I sold the last male of my first betta spawn 😱

The last male has sold! Now to get some of the females sold

20/09/2021

20/09/2021

Why walk when you can catch a Snuber

They are a few updates coming this week so please stay tuned

03/09/2021

The other day I bought a small group of guppies to put into the blue diamond shrimp tank to hopefully get them to breed and now I have roughly 8-10 guppy fry 🤩😍

15/07/2021

Perhaps the worst photo ever but yesterday I separated the tiny red rili shrimp from the cherry shrimp

14/07/2021

Tiny shrimp or giant nettle leaf?

13/07/2021

Shrimp update!

I now have Amano shrimp in with the cherry shrimp and also appear to have some baby red rili shrimp in there too.

Also the yellow Sakura and blue diamonds are doing well

30/06/2021

The big male Falx is holding onto eggs 😍 hopefully soon there will be lots of babies

06/06/2021

I’ve forgotten how long things take to dry without the help of a dehydrator

26/05/2021

Don’t mess with the shrimp 😂 they seem to love the skull decor

What happens when you forget to feed shrimp?…. Well they keep your skull to warn others not to forget to feed them 😝

26/05/2021

What happens when you forget to feed shrimp?…. Well they keep your skull to warn others not to forget to feed them 😝

19/05/2021

Just a yellow Sakura shrimp grazing on the cinnamon stick

18/05/2021

Some nice footage of the Betta Coccina and Betta Falx….. I think the Betta Smaragdina even made an appearance in the Falx tank

17/05/2021

If we keep begging and hoping for food guess what? It begins to rain food!

I have no idea how it happens but I think the weird fish thing outside of the tank has something to do with the unnatural phenomenon

17/05/2021

Betta Falx

Often called the social betta. These betta are part of the Osphronemidae family. These small betta are native to Indonesia.

Betta Falx are a hardy small mouth brooding betta that can live in groups or pairs. Like many bettas Falx need a tight and secure lid and they are prone to jumping.

Males and females can be very hard to tell apart especially when young but as the males mature they gain a bright almost neon blue and black band to the a**l and caudal fins.

Female Falx are the ones who pick the male who she wants to breed with and will start “dancing around” the males colour will then deepen and he will display his fins. Each will when present themselves to each other and begin nudging, pecking and rubbing past each other. Once they are ready to breed the male will embrace the female and lining up their vents as the female lays her eggs which fertilises them. The female then catches the falling eggs and spits them at the male who then catches them and he will hold them in his mouth.

The male then hold the eggs in his mouth for 7-14 days. During this time the male will become less active, stop eating, and will hide away, during this time you may see the male “chewing” this is the male turning the eggs around in his mouth. After the 7-14 days the male spits the free swimming fry out and that’s where the parental care ends.

16/05/2021

Ok so I will have other betta up for sale! (Once these breed) I accidentally lied to you all 🤥

Betta Coccina
Often referred to as the scarlet betta these are native to Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra, Indonesia. These can grow up to 5.6cm

These scarlet red, blue eyed beauties can be found living in small groups. They more docile than other families of betta such as splenden where the more common domestic betta derive from as well as other wild betta such as Imbellis and Smaragdina. Much like with the Splenden family lineage Coccina are bubble nest breeders.

When breeding a spawning female will release 20-40 eggs which the male places into the bubble nest where they stay until the fry are free swimming. The eggs hatch after 30-36 hours and are free swimming after 3-4 days after hatching. Due to living in groups male have been observed sharing a nest and both taking care of eachothers fry together.

The fry should be fed on baby brine shrimp (BBS) and slowly seemed into bigger a live foods as they grow. They can be picky and it can be difficult to wean the fry onto frozen or manufactured foods but it can be done.

Being a betta that isn’t readily available these betta make a unusual statement piece to any aquarium or fish room

16/05/2021

⚠️ not my photo! ⚠️

I left the house to drop off Smaragdina and pick up my Betta Falx well I got them and got another new species called Betta Coccina.

Like with Smaragdina to these are a bubble nesting species but are not from the splenden family

16/05/2021

Goodbye smaragdina 🥺

09/05/2021

All smaragdina have now sold ❤️ at a later date I will have red, yellow and blue shrimp for sale, i have a few burried females in the red and yellow tanks so hopefully they will soon be shrimplets

I may also have orange shrimp at some time and also betta flax but again I am waiting to get my big male a girlfriend

07/05/2021

I’ve recently sold a pair and they have spawned 😍🤩 and what a stunning fish the dad is

26/04/2021

2 lovely female copper Smaragdina are off to their new home 🥺 good luck ladies!

23/04/2021

The shrimp are very tame 🤣 I’ve found a few berries females so hopefully some my colonies will be large enough to advertise a few

23/04/2021

I’m not sure but I think I was violently attacked by my shrimp when doing a water change

12/04/2021

2 Smaragdina are off to their new homes 😍🥺

10/04/2021

I’ve been working on a new shrimp food! It is 99% there but I just need to add one more thing 😜

On the whole it is a success and the shrimp seem to love it ❤️

09/04/2021

A little baby yellow shrimp 🤩🥺 how cute

07/04/2021

So Norton’s betta will be Norton’s shrimp but here are my new blue velvet shrimp ready to acclimate and in a few hours go into their new home

08/03/2021

Pack a fish for posting with me

01/03/2021

When she’s so pretty she glows 😂😍

26/02/2021

Another baby gone to his new home (the first 2 photos) he should arrive today.

The last 2 photos are of a baby that is going to go to his new home on Monday 😍

23/02/2021

4 male copper Smaragdina are ready for new homes 😍

19/02/2021

I just love receiving photos showing how the babies are doing! This boy has been in his new home for about a day and he’s already built a massive bubble nest

18/02/2021

Today’s spawning 😍 these 2 have quite a lot of the Iridescent sheen to the scales so I’ve hoping that together they make some very shiny and nice looking galaxy babies 🤞🏻

17/02/2021

Another baby sold and packed up ready to go 🥺

16/02/2021

How silly of me! I never posted a clear photo of the little male that I sent off yesterday.

Here he is 😍

12/02/2021

The babies hatched last night and Khuli is still doing a wonderful job.

He did completely destroy his best whilst tending to the eggs but they still seem to be doing well