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Betta Fry Growth in Pictures By: Wayne Schmidt Submitted: 7/13/2004 11 week old betta (W. Schmidt) As a reference, the line below is one inch long. ________ If it looks one inch long on your monitor, you'll be seeing the fish at their actual size. Be warned, young fry are so small that they will appear as little more than specks. For the first five weeks the bettas were fed only baby brine shrimp. From five to seven weeks they received a mixture of baby brine shrimp and Grindal worms. Starting with the seventh week they got a mixture of Grindal worms and blackworms. Eleven weeks old: 1.9 inches long    ...-..Betta    egg: 0.03 inches in diameter      ....One    day old fry: 0.1 inch long (The tail doesn't show at this scale)      ...One    week old: 0.2 inches long.         Two weeks old: 0.25 inches long. (Starting to show dorsal fins.)         Three weeks old: 0.34 inches long         Four weeks old: 0.45 inches long on average.         Five weeks old: 0.6 inches long. Size ranges from .5 to .75 inches.         Six weeks old: 0.85 inches long. The largest are over an inch.         Seven weeks old: 1.1 inches long.         Eight weeks old: 1.3 inches long.         Nine weeks old: 1.55 inches long.         Ten weeks old: 1.7 inches long         Eleven weeks old: 1.9 inches long Source: Wayne's This and That

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Slight change of plans! I have decided that, instead of reinventing the wheel, I'm going to create a personal FB page and use the old one purely for betta stuff. So if you're on the original page (now called BettySplendens Bettas), please stay put! :P

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