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Doing fine. Biota will get a few soon.Awesome work @ThRoewer . I need a pair of your captive bred bettas! How are the babies doing?
I hope to get a shipment out to Biota before Christmas. These will be 10 months old and a bit larger. They already eat PE Mysis (also TDO pellets, flakes, brine shrimp, Hikari Mysis,... pretty much everything).Very cool how long you've been working with these fish & seeing this process unfold. My LFS has a 10 year old Marine Betta that was a big motivator for my current tank build. I learned a lot reading through this thread & am now 100x more excited to have a pair.
Based on my observations, Assessors and Calloplesiops seem to be gonochoristic. With Assessors it seems males are the smaller ones. I have 2 A. randalli females together for years now, neither of them changed into a male.I cannot say for sure as I have never kept them, but Roundheads both the Comet and the Assessors are listed as “unknown” by Matthew Wittenrich. At least in his view their precise sexual structure is unclear. Other basslets are listed by him as being gonochoristic (Grammas, Liopropoma) although some say these smaller basslets are protogynous hermaphrodites.
Matthew Wittenrich is the cofounder of Poma Labs.
No idea. It will be a while until I can even breed enough for the US market...Now question is when will your Comets be imported to China? Can’t wait. @ThRoewer
Hey Thomas, my guys have settled in nicely. They know when food is coming. Probably stay in the fuge for a while unless I have aggression issues. Here is a short video. You can see 2 of them. The third is smaller. Maybe a female? Don’t worry. I know the fuge is disgusting but my DT is pristine! So don’t fretShare some pictures! I'd love to see where the little guys end up.
Nice! They like it swampy and tanks with lots of pods.Hey Thomas, my guys have settled in nicely. They know when food is coming. Probably stay in the fuge for a while unless I have aggression issues. Here is a short video. You can see 2 of them. The third is smaller. Maybe a female? Don’t worry. I know the fuge is disgusting but my DT is pristine! So don’t fret
Baby Marine Bettas. 12/9/21
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If you start with juveniles, you can keep them in a group and wait for the sexes to reveal themselves.Thomas, what’s the best way to keep these fish? Any different if kept in a pair or a harem? And any difference in making a pair vs a harem? Thanks.
I will keep a close eye on their webpage! I wanted to ask a few questions about your program and just these fish in general. Do you have any more thoughts on them being sequential hermaphrodites? I remember reading at one point that they were, then that they possibly may not be. Just curious if you had anymore findings or thoughts on that. You may have answered already and I missed it.
Very cool to learn where these come from. I have a pair of "biota" marine betta ordered from live aquaria in September. They pretty much ignore each other. One is larger than the other. Thanks for making them available!
I killed my original pair or 6yrs + …they obviously spawned several time ….If you start with juveniles, you can keep them in a group and wait for the sexes to reveal themselves.
If you start with adults, especially wild caught, you better know the sexes of those you try to pair. In my experience, same sex parings rarely go too well, but a trio may work if it is composed of a male and two females.
I had usually success in combining one larger adult with one or several juveniles.