Breeding bettas, ATFG guppies and endlers

So I`ve decided to breed these fishes. I may decide to breed some other fishes later.
ATFG Guppies
I got a trio of black ATFG guppies a while ago. About a week ago the two females drop some fry. I saved three... but now I know when they will drop again more or less. I can`t wait to have a lot of these guppies.
Endlers
I also got a trio of endlers with the ATFG guppies. I am keeping the guppies and endlers seperate as I do not want them to crossbreed. I already have two endler fry.
Bettas
More than four weeks ago my white round tail betta spawn with one of my females. It was a small spawn and only 3 bettas survived but they are doing great so far. I am planning to spawn my white round tail again this time with a yellow crown tail female. But this male is aggresive and my female has an open wound but luckily it is starting to heal so they might be breeding soon. The other pair I am planning to spawn is a male also white but with some scarlet in the tail and seems to be a Super Delta. I am planning to breed him with one of the females. If this male does not want to breed I have a pink and white veil tail, a spade tail plakat, a sea green plakat and a huge blue plakat male that I can try.
I will post some pictures later

 

So here is the pictures of my fish. The last two pictures is of the same fish. This fish is white but with a little bit of scarlet in his fins.

 

White round tail ripped a whole in my yellow female`s side. She died a day later. :cry: Anyway I got two new crown tails today, one red, one cambodian. Planning to spawn the cambodion with the white male in the last two pictures. The red one I`m planning to spawn with a pink and white veil tail butterfly. I`ll post pictures tomorrow as the new arrivals are still stressed.

 

THis morning the cambodian one just died. I don`t know why. She just died.
The red one is oaky. Here is a picture of her.

 

@Rooivlerkie

I like keeping betta females in my community tanks, they add a bit of colour and attitude.

Out of the 5 females that I've bought over the last couple of months, only 2 made it. The others just simply died for no reason. I discussed the situation with my lfs owner.

He said to me that females are very fragile and don't travel well. They then end up dying for nothing - it's normal and I shouldn't worry if one of my females that I just got, do not make it. It's not something I did wrong.

He said that that is also the reason why you won't find many females for sale like you do with the males. They are actually contemplating not keeping them at all anymore.

She's beautiful and the best of luck for breeding her.

 

Thanks @Dinky.
i am glad this one made it. The male build a huge nest and is flaring at her so I am hoping for a spawn soon.

 

My enlders and ATFG guppies drop some fry today. There are a lot of endlers. I rescue 4 guppies. I have now 3 adults and 4 small fry and 3 bigger fry!

 

Hi,

How the breeding going with these guys. If you plan on selling some the fry I might interested let me know

 

@MarcF
What fry are you might you be interested in?
Later on I will sell enlder and guppy fry or I`ll swop them.
If I can get my bettas to breed I might decide to sell some of their fry too.

 

The ATFG Guppies

 

Oaky, I`ll let you know as soon as the fry are big enough to sell.

 

thanks man. where bout are you situated btw?

 

I`ll try post pictures tomorrow of both the fry of endlers and guppies.

 

awesome, looking forward to seeing the pics

 

I will try to upload the pictures soon

 

pic1 guppy male
pic2 guppy fry( sorry, the tank has not been siphoned yet)
pic3endler fry

 

The male betta build a nest and he is flaring at the female. I released her she seem very eager to breed, following the male to the bubble nes. But when I got there later she was hiding so I guess the male is a bit aggresive. Hopefully they can overcome that and have a succesfull spawn.
I`ve counted 8 endlers fry swimming in the tank with their parents, no problems.
:noworry:

 

A quick update.
The red betta female got beaten up quite badly by one of the white males. Her fins were rippped and she was missing a lot of scales... she did not look good. I thought she would die... but she did not. She is looking much better but I want to get her another male. See http://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/showthread.php?17747-betta-species&p=240452#post240452
I`ve counted 14 fry in my endlers tank, they are growing really fast!
I put all 7 of the ATFG guppy fry with their parents, they are big enough and swim happily around with them. I think the females are near giving birth again so I am keeping an eye on them. I don`t think I`ll sell these fry but when my guppies drop some fry now, I may sell some of them.

 

I know it would happen. I seperate the male ATFG guppies from the others. Today I saw some fry swimming in the tank! Quickly I remove the female and scoop out the fry. Currently I found 10! yes 10! There may be more so I`ll keep looking!

 

So today I found three fry of the ATFG guppies. These guppies drop fry whenever they want.
Also yesterday I had a betta spawn. The red crown tail female spawn with a white round tail opaque male.