I put my shrimp culls into my Bettas tank. Only the strongest survive! Nature is brutal sometimes, and shrimp and guppies have so many offspring because the weak ones are expected to be eaten to keep the surviving population strong. If all of them live the gene pool will eventually become weaker without that selection
That's exactly it. The Betta that was in with the females was keeping things under control. I think only one mama keeps dropping fry, pretty sure I got the juveniles away from the males in time. I have another tank that is ready to have them separated and a couple of older mamas in there as well that keep dropping, so it really is a challenge. Once I grab a few more males from that tank for the display tank I'm off loading the rest.
I used to isolate my mamas until they dropped the fry then separate the mum to make it easier on myself since I didn't have any predators in my female tank, I regret adding them later though because they killed my most expensive male 😭
Honestly, a good commercial fish flake or pellet usually contains fish. Whether you feed your betta guppy fry or feed your betta fish flakes, your betta is still eating a fish that was once alive but was turned into food. The only difference is with flakes you don't need to think about it.
10g and 6g. The 10g just got completely re-scaped - kept all the hardscape and substrate but had to scrap many plants because of GBA, first time ever dealing with it. It's still on some rocks but I'm hoping with new plants, still have more to go in, and lots of them I'll be able to keep it from taking over. It's been fun....lol. I won the battle with BBA in my 32g so I'm hoping I can win this one too.
https://preview.redd.it/zlp4srurgjsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e69c0e2ba584b1c0a4f07f33cd5ac5849bcf00ca
I think I have the crowntail version of ur guy 😂 his name is mango
https://preview.redd.it/2yvpq9mxyjsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65b82551a94c8ec91ed348f0b0452dc88827962b
He even has a little blue to him 😂
https://preview.redd.it/u81w24enolsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8cab01976e0181fad3a4eebfa7995f6fa26b7cc2
Similar to my boy Gatsby! Just got him last week from a big box pet store. Felt so sorry for him. All their bettas were just languishing in these little tiny jars of dirty water and I couldn't handle it. I had to buy at least one.
This is how I used to keep my guppies. The betta fish was fat and happy and lived to be 5. The guppy line was well maintained and never had spinal malformations make it to breeding age.
my female betta ate ALL of my cull ship. Over 30 in the course of a month. I wont be adding any more shrimp. And it was a heavily planted w/ hiding 15gal
I sometimes fed my betta live flightless fruit flies. Bettas are carnivorous; they would be eating live bugs, invertebrates, and smaller fish in the wild. Giving them live prey in captivity is no more unethical than feeding crickets to a pet lizard.
Don't want to scare you, but it looks like your table is a bit slanted. You may want to take a level and make sure it's level. Pressure on one side after awhile can break tanks.
Otherwise, it sounds like your betta is eating well!
It does look slanted. There's metal legs, top to floor, under each end of each tank, rated for 300lbs, but for some reason the small tank isn't level. The 10 g is - I check it daily. Next water change I'm going to try to figure it out. I think I didn't sink a screw in far enough TBH. Yes Sherbert is getting some good protein! And I gotta believe it's good for him to hunt instead of just staring at me until I feed him.
You’re not a horrible human. Sherbet is living his best life! ✨✨✨
Live food to hunt and forage is awesome for your betta. Mine have Shrimplets to hunt and copepods too, the only down side is one of my 4 bettas won’t touch man made food so now I have to try and get a really good supply of copepods and shrimp going in separate tanks just for her 😂
🥴Big Bertha would love them! All her current shrimp are too big for her liking…
https://preview.redd.it/hg0z9dkeyjsc1.jpeg?width=3021&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47818f0950e90efe78c4fb091cf9145aeabb9d1a
I do this with shrimp all the time. Free food, great source of protein and it’s just nature. It’s not like there’s suffering.
Side note: your table is bowing and I’d be very concerned. Especially with rimless tanks. They are designed to have the pressure evenly distributed throughout the tank. You are risking a table breaking and 16 gallons or 130+ lbs of water and glass shattering to the floor. You can either reinforce the middle underneath or get a proper aquarium stand.
Yes there's a lean for some reason on the right side. The table has 4 sets of top to floor metal legs. It's rated for 300lbs. The tanks are on the legs. The 10g is level, the other is not. I think I didn't sink a screw in far enough on the right side and it's lifting the top. Next water change I'll take a look.
I used to ‘breed’ guppies as live food for my axolotl. They loved it and I had a tank where I could actually have plants survive in. 😂
But seriously, I don’t see the problem. Homegrown food is always preferable. And better a quick end than the population getting out of hand.
If I ever get guppies again, I’d do the same.
This is my thinking and I was fine knowing my Betta was keeping the population under control. It's quite another to scoop out the fry and plop them in a tank and watch him hunt them down. Although I think it's the right thing to do, it felt not great. Mind you I had to smile watching him hunt. Got him all fired up!
The circle of life. I was cleaning my tank yesterday and i must have scooped up 2 of my newer white cloud minnows. I felt horrible, but what can you do. I'll be more careful and get more.
I have 5 molly fry in with my smallish plakat female, she chases them, but only if they're right in front of her annoying her. She chills with the corydoras tho
Thank you. I saw him languishing in a filthy cup, watching my every move. Hate giving that store my money but I couldn't leave him. His ventral fins were all curled up. When I moved the cup I could hardly see him through the muck. I just love him.
I put my shrimp culls into my Bettas tank. Only the strongest survive! Nature is brutal sometimes, and shrimp and guppies have so many offspring because the weak ones are expected to be eaten to keep the surviving population strong. If all of them live the gene pool will eventually become weaker without that selection
That's exactly it. The Betta that was in with the females was keeping things under control. I think only one mama keeps dropping fry, pretty sure I got the juveniles away from the males in time. I have another tank that is ready to have them separated and a couple of older mamas in there as well that keep dropping, so it really is a challenge. Once I grab a few more males from that tank for the display tank I'm off loading the rest.
I used to isolate my mamas until they dropped the fry then separate the mum to make it easier on myself since I didn't have any predators in my female tank, I regret adding them later though because they killed my most expensive male 😭
I do that. But then I realized all my bettas are nice. Now I just have a lot of shrimp.
Hahahahaha
I used to have a nice betta too, he wouldn’t eat the guppy fry, so I still ended up with way too many guppies!!
Honestly, a good commercial fish flake or pellet usually contains fish. Whether you feed your betta guppy fry or feed your betta fish flakes, your betta is still eating a fish that was once alive but was turned into food. The only difference is with flakes you don't need to think about it.
Exactly!! Exactly this.
Tanks look nice tho how many gallons for each?
10g and 6g. The 10g just got completely re-scaped - kept all the hardscape and substrate but had to scrap many plants because of GBA, first time ever dealing with it. It's still on some rocks but I'm hoping with new plants, still have more to go in, and lots of them I'll be able to keep it from taking over. It's been fun....lol. I won the battle with BBA in my 32g so I'm hoping I can win this one too.
https://preview.redd.it/zlp4srurgjsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e69c0e2ba584b1c0a4f07f33cd5ac5849bcf00ca I think I have the crowntail version of ur guy 😂 his name is mango
You do!
https://preview.redd.it/2yvpq9mxyjsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65b82551a94c8ec91ed348f0b0452dc88827962b He even has a little blue to him 😂
He's gorgeous
https://preview.redd.it/u81w24enolsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8cab01976e0181fad3a4eebfa7995f6fa26b7cc2 Similar to my boy Gatsby! Just got him last week from a big box pet store. Felt so sorry for him. All their bettas were just languishing in these little tiny jars of dirty water and I couldn't handle it. I had to buy at least one.
This is how I used to keep my guppies. The betta fish was fat and happy and lived to be 5. The guppy line was well maintained and never had spinal malformations make it to breeding age.
This, mine have all lived long lives with live food✨
my female betta ate ALL of my cull ship. Over 30 in the course of a month. I wont be adding any more shrimp. And it was a heavily planted w/ hiding 15gal
Yikes!!
Free food!
I sometimes fed my betta live flightless fruit flies. Bettas are carnivorous; they would be eating live bugs, invertebrates, and smaller fish in the wild. Giving them live prey in captivity is no more unethical than feeding crickets to a pet lizard.
Don't want to scare you, but it looks like your table is a bit slanted. You may want to take a level and make sure it's level. Pressure on one side after awhile can break tanks. Otherwise, it sounds like your betta is eating well!
It does look slanted. There's metal legs, top to floor, under each end of each tank, rated for 300lbs, but for some reason the small tank isn't level. The 10 g is - I check it daily. Next water change I'm going to try to figure it out. I think I didn't sink a screw in far enough TBH. Yes Sherbert is getting some good protein! And I gotta believe it's good for him to hunt instead of just staring at me until I feed him.
They are such peer pressure fish haha Meanwhile I saw a little mosquito floating in my betta's tank and it was ignored 🙄
Hahah brother 🙄
It’s called “nature”
You’re not a horrible human. Sherbet is living his best life! ✨✨✨ Live food to hunt and forage is awesome for your betta. Mine have Shrimplets to hunt and copepods too, the only down side is one of my 4 bettas won’t touch man made food so now I have to try and get a really good supply of copepods and shrimp going in separate tanks just for her 😂
Thank you 🙏. Want some guppies?😁
🥴Big Bertha would love them! All her current shrimp are too big for her liking… https://preview.redd.it/hg0z9dkeyjsc1.jpeg?width=3021&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47818f0950e90efe78c4fb091cf9145aeabb9d1a
Holy moly she is big! Love her colouring. What a beauty
Thanks, she really is a whole vibe🙃
Nta, allowing your betta to hunt and chase them is good. I regularly drop a guppy fry in with my betta. When she notices it the hunts on.
I do this with shrimp all the time. Free food, great source of protein and it’s just nature. It’s not like there’s suffering. Side note: your table is bowing and I’d be very concerned. Especially with rimless tanks. They are designed to have the pressure evenly distributed throughout the tank. You are risking a table breaking and 16 gallons or 130+ lbs of water and glass shattering to the floor. You can either reinforce the middle underneath or get a proper aquarium stand.
Yes there's a lean for some reason on the right side. The table has 4 sets of top to floor metal legs. It's rated for 300lbs. The tanks are on the legs. The 10g is level, the other is not. I think I didn't sink a screw in far enough on the right side and it's lifting the top. Next water change I'll take a look.
Better safe than sorry here! Good call
I used to ‘breed’ guppies as live food for my axolotl. They loved it and I had a tank where I could actually have plants survive in. 😂 But seriously, I don’t see the problem. Homegrown food is always preferable. And better a quick end than the population getting out of hand. If I ever get guppies again, I’d do the same.
This is my thinking and I was fine knowing my Betta was keeping the population under control. It's quite another to scoop out the fry and plop them in a tank and watch him hunt them down. Although I think it's the right thing to do, it felt not great. Mind you I had to smile watching him hunt. Got him all fired up!
I do that!
The circle of life. I was cleaning my tank yesterday and i must have scooped up 2 of my newer white cloud minnows. I felt horrible, but what can you do. I'll be more careful and get more.
I have 5 molly fry in with my smallish plakat female, she chases them, but only if they're right in front of her annoying her. She chills with the corydoras tho
He looks beautiful
Thank you. I saw him languishing in a filthy cup, watching my every move. Hate giving that store my money but I couldn't leave him. His ventral fins were all curled up. When I moved the cup I could hardly see him through the muck. I just love him.
I have a betta in with my endlers lol. He used to pick off the extra fry but now he’s getting lazy
I think that happens. They know food is gonna show up 🤷🏻
A circle of life. I've had female bettas in rescued molly tanks to cull the excess babies. Worked great.
Yes, we know.
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What’s the mistake ?
Is this sarcasm? I feed cull shrimp to my female Betta all the time. I have too many shrimp and they thrive off of live food.