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These are a Pair of Betta Cracens we recently bought from Mark Denaro, they are wild caught and I know they will breed (figuring out how to get babies is the current challenge I’m facing with these guys) and there is really very little about these guys I know, what I do know is what I have observed watching them. So this article will be a work in progress, and I will be continually updating this one as soon as new behavior is spotted or I find a piece of information that I think is relevant to this article.

I have these two in a 55 Gallon Tank with a few Zebra snails and a placostamus. The tanks is filtered but I do not think they care for it as I almost never see them on the side of the tank that the filtered is on. I feed them a large variety of foods from frozen bloodworms to live daphnia , and Pellet food thrown in to keep them thinking. They don't seem to be too aggressive with each other but boy they do not like that placostamus, he’s just to big to pick on. =) The tank is very heavily planted to give them places to hide when they feel threatened. (the female never seems to hide but boy that male runs at the first sign of movement) The Placostamus tends to uproot the plants a lot though  so he may find another tank to call home if he uproots all of them.

I have noticed them Breeding twice. They tent to breed in the middle of the water level and the female seems to be the one that catches all the eggs. After they are done spawning she plays keep away with the eggs for a while spitting them out at him and picking them back up again before he can get them, but she soon tires of holding them and spits them out at him and he gets them all. He does not seem to spit them out very often once he’s got them though. You can see him rolling them around for about 2 days and unfortunately that is as far as I have gotten with them in spawning, I’m not sure what is going wrong but he’s getting scared and eating them ‘I think’. 

 To Be Continued

Male, he sees the placo trying to clean the glass and is not too pleased.

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Date: 12/24/06

Male and female, male wondering what I’m doing.

Betta Cracens