Leroy

Could be dropsy.. http://www.fishdeals.com/fish_diseases/dropsy/

IME in breeding fighters, the bossy one always got the job done a lot easier and faster than the passive one. Was no mucking around. Just did the deed and that was it 8)

If I can actually get them to make babies then sure I'll be selling them once grown :lol: Thanks for that Cesarz, although I'm finding it hard to know what this 'tube' looks like. Is it very distinctive or is it something I have to look hard to find? Never bred livebearers so I'm no guru just yet

I'm hoping to breed a Hi-fin Lyretail swordtail male x Lyretail female however I remember reading somewhere, at some point in time that Hi-fins have trouble breeding as the anal fin is too large. Was curious as to what others have experienced or know about them. Pics of the culprits in questions! Male: Female:

DP = Doubletail Plakat? I've always known the abbreviation as DTPK. Anyway, obviously you can't predict 100% what the outcome is and I've never worked with DT unfortunately. However, from what I understand it isn't a dominant gene. It's a genotype that unless crossed with pure DTxDT you will get a random amount of DT through several generations. As CT is a dominant gene however, there will obviously be some crowning in most of the fry. So, as a 'off the top of my head' prediction... I'd say you'd end up with the below mixture of fry. - Long, single finned with crowning (with PK and DT geno) - Long, finned double tail with crowning - Short, single finned with crowning (DT gene) - Short, finned, double tailed with crowning Presuming the mother is 100% CT and not a cross with something else, the offspring in my opinion would be classed as 50% CT and the other half would be a mixture depending on what fin type the fish actually was. One thing to remember is that Plakat isn't a tail 'type' as such eg. CT, HM, VT. Its just a word used for short finned fighters and can still show other genes just on a different sized fin. Hope this makes a little sense It's hard putting it in writing. And please, anybody feel free to correct me if I'm wrong!

Amazing aquascaping Waterfaller! And your betta has the most amazing colors also! I really do wish we could get Hemianthus callitrichoides here. Also what is the plant growing on the wood in the second nano?

1337 = L33T = LEET = ELITE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet <- if you're really interested in learning more but I highly discourage it :roll:

Do you have any double tail adodge? Would love some pure black ones also

If only mixing fighters was like mixing paint lol. If you did happen to get a purple one, I would probably drool a lot 8)

They'll slowly colour up in the next couple weeks probably. Are the bodies light or dark coloured? The dark colour on the anal fin are on a few of mine at the moment too. Still waiting to see what they grow into as I'm hoping for a black butterfly 8)

I just found some in a small stream about 5 mins from my house. It's an NZ native so can be found in streams and lakes all over the place, just have to hunt around a bit first.

Right, errr... plants, aquatic plants, glosso, fish. Still on topic... right? :oops: Hard to explain exactly... but wanting a full sleeve on my arm, slowly worked on of course. Going to be a dark, gloomy looking tree with the base/roots of it starting on my hand and wrapping around my fingers, the main trunk of the tree being on the arm, then it branching out at the top where my shoulder is. As the years go by I'll slowly add bits and pieces into the tree that play a significant role in my life at the time. Kind of going to be my tree of life as nerdy as that sounds lol :roll: Partner is wanting this, however it's a bad picture and the only one I could find on the net...

Oh right I just remember seeing in some old post somewhere that you said you worked at Underground Arts. Me and the partner were wanting some work done so just thought I'd enquire :lol: lol

Leaving it there full time will probably stress him out a bit. However putting it there for a little bit each day or even a few times a week will help strengthen his fins, especially caudal and should prevent it from going droopy. What type of fighter did you have?

Will just have to make sure the other half remembers to actually bring it out this weekend. Always asking her too but constantly forgets :roll: Also Mystic.. are you a tattooist??