Oldfishlady

that that you mention it... he could of been moving the eggs because he was moving beyween nest but i thought he was just eating any left over eggs from the old nest.
i will try again in a week or two. this is a bit of topic but i know you have many tanks just like me. how much does it cost to run a heater?

Thats too bad.....are you sure he didn't just move the eggs?...I have a male that does that with every spawn....he like one spot to spawn and one spot usually in the middle of the tank that he want his nest and eggs.
I spawn females that are going into their 3rd year and have not had a problem with them
Good luck with your next spawn....

do you remeber when i messaged you a while back about my first spawn?well the father was a egg eater. :( he trashed the nest with the remaining eggs in and started a new nest on the other side of the tank. i think the eggs were unfertile because the female was about 1 and a half. so im hoping to get a new female soon and try again soon.

yay! thanx for being meh friend!

Awesome and you don't have to have big tanks to keep the natural planted tanks, I have some 1g, 2g and 3g NPT that are pretty nice and no added filter needed...just plants....lol.....

You are my hero OLF ;) I will probably never have a tank larger than 20-40g, but it will always be planted cause of you (:

I broke my neck and have limited mobility and fine motor skills-so I had to find away to stay in this hobby-after lots of research I found the natural planted method-added my own twist to it so I don't have to make water changes and still maintain water quality-My largest tank is 250g outside and 75g inside on my larger tanks I make 2-3 times a year water changes. The outside tank is short term with weather and doesn't get water changes.
I do make regular water changes on my fry tanks to get better growth and development and on my smaller container with Bettas.
My crayfish tank is not planted but I do keep floating plants in it-or I should say this is where I put a lot of my cuttings from my planted tanks, they won't let me plant it due to burrowing habits and they eat them too, I use oak leaves for the substrate too.

My biggest is about 50g long and they're for crayfish. I can't use plants so I can't make mine peaceful.

If I may ask, what tail type and color are you breeding? I'm trying to understand their genetics. Though I've read about genetics, I still don't fully understand.
In the past I only bred green and copper HM. Now I'm working on metalics. Green, copper, platinum and gold. Unfortunately everything is going wrong and I haven't produced anything worth bragging...lol.

You are house bound? .... If that means you can't go places/not mobile, I guess that's another thing we have in common. I'm slowly loosing my legs (bad spine and some other thing - docs can't define/diagnose my symptoms). So I am home most of the time (unless I teach). But still I can't care for my hobbies as I would like to.... my legs hurt and I don't have the energy.

I have the marble crayfish, it stated with one on an impulse buy at a auction and since they clone and you only need one to reproduce...well...lol...I got a lot of them now.

So far, I have been able to keep male Bettas together for 16 months and counting-pretty neat watching males together along with the females all in one tank with all fins and tails intact. I started with one spawn and have been able to add other young males from other spawns, but this has been recent and too early to tell right now, this may change in a month or day--you never know-but I am also right here all the time being house bound of sorts-if I still worked or away for any time-I wouldn't do this.
The older males seem to tolerate the younger males in the heavy planted 75g, I did try in the 25g and that was a no-go...so tank size matters...lol.

I am on a fixed income with limited resources too, so I understand...lol...that is why I try to find ways and methods to do what I do as low cost as possible..

I agree that aggression is due to isolation. And that's why they aren't as aggressive in the wild. I also agree that aggression will occur when they are disturbed/moved..... But I always experience aggression when they want to spawn. 3 - 4 months is the longest I can keep them together peacefully.

You have crayfish too? What kind? I have redclaws and some papua type, and others I don't know the names. Redclaws are the easiest to keep. Papua's are the most difficult. I have never succeeded spawning papua's.

I guess I'm a greedy (?) type - wanting everything though have very limited resources.