So, as some of you may know, I have been keeping Betta Fish since the beginning of this school term (Spring 2010).  I have had 2 batches of betta fry.  The first died after I made some mistakes.  The died within a week.  The second batch is doing quite well.  They are still doing fine and this is day 15 for them.  I have had live plants in the tank, so when they first started out I didn't feed them brine shrimp until the 3rd or 4th day.  Many of them couldn't eat it, but it was good for them to be curious about the brine shrimp.  They started eating them by the 5th day, and I have been feeding them just the same ever since.

Brine Shrimp are annoying to hatch.  I had to buy 4 soda bottles, salt, air pump, a light, and of course the eggs.  The most difficult part about hatching them is learning to time it all out in advance.  It takes 18-24 hours to hatch the brine shrimp, and they are only good for a day or less after they have hatched (in my experiences).  Therefore, you must have an alternating hatchery so that you won't run out of food.  I'm still trying to get the process down on when to start a new batch every day.  Later, I'll add a link [here] to a Youtube video that I learned how to do this.

I'm really looking forward to the 4th week.  From what I have seen on Youtube, they start to get larger.  That's really a great thing, because I know during the 1st week I really had to strain my eyes in order to see them.  After the 4th week, I'm going to have to learn the process of covering the tank with plastic wrap in order to prevent the fry from getting pneumonia.  They start using their labyrinth during this time (5-7 weeks is what I read online).

With all that said, I currently have maybe 70 fry still thriving in my 20 gallon tank.

For those of you who follow my blog and are Guild Wars fanatics, here is the video I created to help those of you who are looking to learn how to farm ectos in the game.  Embedding the video wasn't possible due to the width of my blog posts.  Sorry about that.