Well I knew It would be dangerous to come here, I've been reading the posts and already you lot have inspired me to want to keep more varieties of fish.

'Him on the couch' will not be amused

I'm Dianna, I've "crossed the ditch" (Pegasus's words) from Boronia.

I'm near Sydney and I mainly keep and breed Siamese Fighting Fish, and mossies.

Great place you have here, thought I'd betta say gudday.

Dianna

Hey there Dianna.

It's a real pleasure to see you here and I hope you get to make our forum your second home

I'm sure you'll find lots to interest you here, and we are all keen to hear about those fish of yours.

Really appreciate you taking the long swim he he.

Happy Days,

Bill (Pegasus)

Gidday Dianna. How long have you been breeding the Siamese Bettas?? Sounds fascinating. Do you breed for colour??

Are there other sorts of fish that you keep??

Again welcome welcome welcome 8) 8) 8)

Hi Dianna and welcome to the board. I hope you enjoy yourself here and learn heaps.

Hello, and Thanks for the welcome!

I've just started breeding fighters this year, I started with a few from the pet shop, they spawned and all the fry survived, so then I immediately ran out of room as they matured and had to be separated ha ha, so future spawns are on hold until I build my "Great wall of Bettas". And in the mean time I've managed to find a few of the fancier tail varieties like crowntail and superdelta for future breeding. Other than that the only other fish I have are bristlenose to keep the tanks clean and some neons.

I haven't had any tanks since I was a kid until this year, was always moving around. But boy! I had no idea how much I missed them, and can't get enough info about all types of fish now, but you all know what I'm talking about... It's great to find these forums and I look foreward to hearing/reading about everybodies tanks and fish too.

cheers,

Dianna

Have you tried keeping the males together as they grow up? I've heard several times that as long as the males grow up together they'll be fine and won't fight...Well, I guess won't fight more than most siblings, anyway. But if you seperate them at all then you can never put them back together again. I gave breeding fighters a try once, intending to test that with the males, but didn't have any luck getting fry.

Hi Ira,

Yes you can keep them together if they are from the same spawn but what you end up with is one dominant male, and a bunch of males that mimic females with the short fins to avoid being picked on, once separated they go on to grow long fins but are always a bit behind and the aim is to produce long finned males fairly quickly. The females can be kept together but if you accidently separate one for a while they become agressive too. ( thought it was a male, silly me, she has longer fins than I was used to seeing on a female, only realised once she started showing an egg tube, will definately be breeding her though)

Dianna

HI Ira, and Delta,

Be great if you could copy your posts into the Anabatoid Section as this is VERY useful info. Ira could start the thread if that was ok.

No objections to it being here.... it's great, but is certainly worth a place in the other section.

We need some Betta threads going Delta.... excuse the pun

Often wondered the same thing myself :oops: