Betta Pallifia - Video update

[Hamza]

Hello folks,

I wanted to share my dedicated betta setup here. I had something close to a biotope in mind with this. Pallifinas come from varied water enviroments ranging from stagnant peat swamps to clear flowing waters. What I aimed for is moderately acidic setup with a bit of flow. These are large bettas with a good appetite, so I felt the need for a good filtration system and ample of vegetation to maintain water quality. I have added lots of katapa, teak leaves in there to create acidic environment.


This is the mommy pallifina, quite monster she is at over 4" in length

Obligate predators, they can stay locked on a target patiently, slowly and carefully making a move towards it until the prey is hunted down or moves away from the spot

And then this guy looked up to give me a pose 😉

same fella upclose

juveniles

juvenile male

another juvenile

Thanks for reading my post.
Looking forward to know your views on this setup..

 

[Lindy]

Looks great, what about a full tank shot?

 

[tim]

Lovely

 

[ourmanflint]

Nice. A new species for me, looks like a real monster!

 

[Hamza]

Thank you guys!

@ourmanflint ....it surely is 🙂

Heres the FTS

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Nice. A new species for me, looks like a real monster!

Perfect tank, a new fish for me as well.

cheers Darrel

 

[Hamza]

They first spawned on 1 december I guess, and they spawned again yesterday.
Male is still quite inexperienced to hold the eggs yet, poor female is collecting the eggs and chasing the male around to take the brooding responsibility(paternal mouthbrooder, dad does the job here) but male totally ignores after job is done

Took some pictures, but couldnt fint time to post earlier.








female is quite a monster in size


The spawning process is pretty slow, it goes on for the whole day, female releases 4-5 eggs in each embrace and there are a lot of mock attempts within the cycle.

Poor female collected the eggs male spat out and when male ignored it, the eggs got gulped 😉


And some other shots from today...

largest and the smallest from the batch

Heres the main guy, quite a transformation he has undergone is past few days. Hes a bit shy and quite energetic, very difficult to take decent shots of him...

smaller male(probable)

Another female witha unique spade-tail

And heres nothing

Hope you have enjoyed it..

 

[Hamza]

Hi,


Heres the video update


These are literally very crazy fish, for a betta(atleast in my view). Not at all shy unlike a lot of wild types, always very curious and energetic(powerful swimmers and jumpers) even to jump out to grab stuff. o need to keep a tight fitting lid on top there - pretty much you can say a dwarf channa with a short dorsal.

Heres a video to give an idea of how crazy they are...

 

[Lindy]

Fantastic! My simplex are a bit like that. I hold a cube of freeze dried tubifex and they will come up and grab it. I like the colouration of these.

 

[Hamza]

This tank came under top 10 in AGA 2015, biotope catagory

http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2015/show543.html

 

[alto]

Congratulations!

& thanks for the update, I completely missed this when it was first posted - any chance you can repost some of the photos? most are missing for me (I can see video links & spawning embrace)

 

[parotet]

Congrats! Very nice setup and fish.

Jordi