The offspring of home bred betta imbellis is a gang of healthy looking 350 plus juveniles, 3 months old. With Razib, we both headed to five secret sites around here releasing them to their natural habitat on 5th of December 2020. We took less than 20 a few months ago but we are returning back more than 350 to their habitat. Time to say goodbye. I am just their foster Dad for over 3 months.
Soon they will learn to live in their natural world. No more hand feeding, they have to search and hunt. Some will succumb to predators, the rest will soon pair up, and produce babies for the next generation.
All in all wild betta imbellis breeding experience really was an eye opener. Breeding can be very detailed if we wish to explore, about water parameters, about the timing of nesting, about hatching, about little fry falling straight down and Dad quickly intercept and put back to nest, and about the shift from vertical movement to horizontal swimming. Wild betta imbellis fries show intricacy within 7 to 8 days. Then their life take a different turn after 7-14 days feeding on infusoria with intermittent doses of artemia and moina macrocopa. Once they are 2 weeks old, they feed on bigger live food. Dry food in pellet form comes in a bit later, about a month old. They have gone through life in 3 different tanks: breeding tank, first grow out tank, and a much bigger second grow out tank.
Return them to their habitat will be a weekly affair now. I still have close to a thousand imbellis juveniles to care. Another 3 weeks from now, adventure in wild betta imbellis will cease, since I am concentrating on betta livida, betta tussyae, betta brownorum and betta channoides. These will produce smaller number of offspring, thus space and amount of food will not be a constraint.
Betta Imbellis F1
Parents: wild caught in seri iskandar
Offspring: 350
Return to habitat: 5/12/2020
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releasing betta imbellis to their habitat, seri iskandar
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