New Betta couple

After sitting down and reviewing many things over, I decided to retry spawning my Betta's. The lucky couple is Tillikum and Taima. The irony of it all is Tillikum and Taima are two orcas at Sea World Orlando and they have had many kids. So hopefully this spawn survives. As I type there is a huge thunderstorm passing through. I'm watching as Tillikum courting Taima in her side of the tank. Taima is a Crowntail female and Tillikum is a halfmoon rosetail betta. I brought Taima four days ago and ever since i placed her into the tank divided with Tillikum on the other side she's been doing nothing but watching him. He's taken a liking to her too as he's been flaring at her showing off his fins and making little movements here and there that shows he is interested in her. Tillikum has recently made a bubblenest which is pretty impressive. I am of course going to wait till Taima is full of eggs before I let her into the tank. As I already have the Cultures set up and im trying to make sure mistakes do not repeat themselves. But one cant control what nature has in mind.

Fry Update

Im sorry I havent been posting much, but my little fry are not doing too well, first we had a tank disaster in which a whole box of aquarium salt spilled into the tank, I had to do a premature change though I had no choice. I found out I had 220 fry!! For the first day after the incident, they seemed okay. But I noticed that they fry were dropping one by one during the early morning of the second day, now I only have three left. As sad as it is, im trying my hardest to keep them okay. They were already at the all eyes stage and were eating Brine shrimp. Well I wouldn't say that this was a failure. But things happen that are not in our control. I am now trying to save them. doing what I can, changing their water and feeding them, watching for any changes. Not everyone is successful on their first try, but lessons are learned as we now understand.

I currently have the three remaining fry in a 10 gallon tank and I did a complete scrubdown on the 20 gallon fry tank. I already have it set up for a new spawning pair. I will continue to update on the remaining fry. But I will also start a new blog on the new pair. keep checking back for more updates.