Reply To: Males not fertilizing eggs?

[Patrick S]

#23908

Hi Morgan, No success yet. I have lost all of the fish except 1 male. I treated one pair that was quite listless with “Clout” to take care of external parasites possibly. Generally I don’t like to medicate so this was an experiment. I haven’t kept good notes, but eventually the female (also treated) and others in separate tank, all became listless, hid in corner and eventually died. I =have one male left that is doing OK now. I think I might have been overfeeding and giving too much frozen bloodworms and white worms (??. Anyone have more experience with this as I am just guessing? I started to feed less and primarily with pellet food. Now he just gets an occasional 1 or 2 bloodworms or 10 grindal worms every few days with pellet food (2-3 Tetra betta pellets) or X-food pellets twice per day for all othr feedings. My temperatures lately have been about 78-84 C in tanks due to warm room although I though bettas preferred this (any comment?). Never had so much trouble with bettas before. These were show quality I bought at auction from a person who was doing well at shows in OH area. My approach now is just to keep fish alive and then if that works out move on to try breeding again. Water is at about 120=140 ppm hardness, pH 7-7.5 and tanks are not sparkling clean. Have box filter with coral gravel to maintain pH and sponge filter for bio filtering.