Latest Spawn Results

[Joby]

Dad is a metallic MG HM (pic taken by K.G.Bettas)

Mum is a blue marble who colour changed on me from this

to this and still changing! her head is now almost completely black with just a white nose and gold lips

Had problems initially which couldn't find a reason for but lost around 50 of the fry from week 2. Everything appears ok now and I have 90 left. Here are some of them

Look at the size difference hard to believe they are from the same spawn!

They are now on frozen chopped bloodworms/artemia and granules, other than the littlest who I still put live bbs in for, so hopefully they won't become fussy eaters when they grow up and go to new homes

 

[clover]

they are great love the female u should remove the big fry now and leave the small ones they will soon start growin

 

[Joby]

Thanks Clover

Yes the larger ones are coming out today!!

I have about 6 that are huge and then they all go down into various sizes from there. Funny its mostly the darker ones that are bigger

 

[rollntider]

congrats

 

[clover]

thats great how old are they?

 

[OohFeeshy]

Yeah, how old? I think my new... challenge (yees, challenge, thats the word ) will be to get at least one from everyones spawns .

 

[Joby]

Thanks Rollntider

Clover they were 6 weeks old yesterday.

OohFeeshy I like your plan

7 Big ones are now moved and enjoying romping around their new tank and inspecting the cories Took me an hour to turf out the few platties and guppies that were keeping the tank cycled

 

[OohFeeshy]

OohFeeshy I like your plan

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Yees If anyone enquires further, I need to, uh, quality control. We can't be having bettas that have, say, been living in nuclear waste infected waters and as a consequence glow in the dark, can we?

 

[wuvmybetta]

Gorgeous,Joby. They're going to turn out quite lovely

I love Daddy )

 

[Elise]

Lovely!!!

 

[Synirr]

Ooooo, you already tell they're going to be stunning! But then again, how could they not be with a mother like that?

 

[Joby]

Thanks Wuv, Elise & Synirr

Can't believe the colour change on the mother so am wondering if some of the fry will be like her and change later on, can't wait to find out!

Dad had a gorgeous yellow sibling sister who unfortunately died before I could spawn them so I hope maybe a yellow might pop out, but maybe its wishful thinking

 

[Lady]

aww they are so cute...the dad is just to die for...and the mom is so cut...I love when they have different colored lips...adds personality...haha like lipstick! I have a fish with red lips haha shes so funny lookin...

the babies are so cute... I cant wait till mine develop color and personalities hehe

 

[Joby]

aww thanks Lady, its so exciting to see what colours come out of these little critters

Very hard work, but worth it in the end

 

[Joby]

They are growing nicely and now 9 weeks old. Have spotted something strange though, 4 light ones have one gold coloured eye and one black coloured eye Cannot manage to catch a head on pic to prove its not just the light playing tricks one me so you'll have to take my word for it. Anyone else had fish with 2 different coloured eyes? Maybe its mum's marble genes coming into play

Anyhow, here are a couple of pics from today that were taken with flash so makes them more green than the blue I see.

This is one of with different coloured eyes, his gold eye side lol!

They are starting to flare at eachother now but no serious tears or nips seen so far. I'm having to put off jarring them as I go on holiday for a week on Saturday so fingers crossed they still have fins left when I get back. Have put a ton of plants in there to try and break the line of sight and I have an automatic feeder set on both grow-out tanks that will feed them high protein granules that they have been getting used to for the last 2 weeks.

The adult bettas and my community tank of guppies etc will be fasting while I'm away as I have nobody that understands fish to come and feed them for me. Its going to be a very nervous week