Pond clean out
I decided to go through 1 of my ponds to get a crayfish count. To my surprise some of my girls are berrid up. Pulled out 22 to be exact. These guys are only about an inch,inch in a half which is alot smaller than they typically are when they are berried up so didn't expect to find any berried up. Typically I get 3 to 4 berried up a month so definitely gona have my hands full next month.
Betta hybrid update
Betta hybrid update- I couldn't get a photo of the wiggles because the father is very protective and will eat the babies but the babies are now free swimming and I can pull the father. There's easily 200-300 babies!!!
Back in the betta game this time with hmpk/imbelis hybrids
About a year ago I decided to stop breeding bettas to expand my crayfish breeding facility so it's been about a year since I've done any real breeding. Problem with breeding betta fish is once they reach sexual maturity the males will begin to fight and kill each other so you have to pull them and put them each in their own jar. You then change the jars water every day to keep the fish healthy. At 1 point I had over 500 bettas and daily water changes were geting very time consuming was spending 2 to 3 hours every day just doing betta water changes. So I decided to cut back only breeding as it was very time consuming and the crayfish were much easier and more profitable. I have decided I'm going to take another shot at it. As of now I have set up 3 spawns these guys are my hybrid bettas. They are imbelis betta/half moon plakat. I have been working on perfecting a hybrid line for a while now to no prevail real choppy fish. Poor colors and bad finnage. The last spawn turned out absolutely stunning some of the best looking bettas I've created,, great finnage and beautiful bright colors. 2 of these guys look almost identical to imbelis bettas but have the marble gene so have flakes of yellow and orange through out their bodies.I'm going to raise these babies differently this time and raise them out of 1 of my ponds like they do in Thailand. They will have more room to roam so should cut back on aggression allowing them to stay in the pond longer so I will have less jars. I will post another update in a few days once the girls have released eggs and babies have begun to hatch
Axolotl hatch out!!!
My baby axolotls have started hatching out. Lots of Babies this time around. I've yet to raise any in the ponds I think I'm gona have to put some in one see if the development is better than bins. This batch is my GFP copper female to my my wild Starburst male so may actually have some GFPs available this spring.