biziboy

Hi Ira, I just noticed them in my tank today, they are very tiny and very fast.

From Peter

I have some green fighters from Peter which I am intending to breed. They have great colour which I'd like to keep but I want to lenghten the dorsal fin along the back more. I have a female with a long dorsal fin which is a solid deep blue which I got from breeding a double tail with a double tail gene carrier. I hope everyone knows what I mean. What are everyones thought on using double tails to lenghten the dorsal fin. Also what do you think the likley colour result will be when breeding a luminess green to a deep flat blue.

Hi everyone its been a long time since I checked out this site. I have now bred a few genarations of fighters and then gone away from it. I am about to start again with some nice green ones I got from Peter Macleod.

Hi Ira, sounds like you had fun with that stuff. I have not tried using gluten flour before but this is what I do and it works for me. Bleend up some chicken liver, beef heart, fish, and spinich to an almost liquid consistancy then use a bowl and a wooden spoon to mix in some dried breadcrumbs till its a thick paste. Flaten it out betwwen sheets of creaseproof paper and freeze.

Thanks I'll try that, can you recomend a good book that covers betta genetics?

My fry have now made it to the stage when they need to be seperated. Most of them did colour up nicley, but interestingly I have ended up with about 50% blues and 50% cambodians with no double tails. There are some that are obviously males but I am having trouble sexing the rest of them. does anyone have any tips for sexing fry at this age? (12 weeks)

This is the first time I have bred fish of any type. The father is a blue single tail and the mother is a blue double tail. The fry are now about a month old, about 90% of them have horizontal stripes and the other 10% are the pinkish cambodian colour. Does anyone know how long these fish take to develop their full colour?

I am breeding siamese fighters and interested in exchaging ideas and fish [ This message was edited by: biziboy on 2001-06-03 07:12 ]