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Sorta figuring Coby is Violet, he looks red some times then blue some times then purple, depending on the angle of the light. I know VT aint very sort after but Im kinda thinking this colouring might be worth breeding him with another fighter, royal blue perhaps might make for some nicely violet fry. Wonder if I should try get Violet VT's for breed him with another kind, its all so interesting... He keeps blowing bubbles so he seems up to the challenge!

Any tips on feeding fighters frozen or dried food? My lil guy ate all his live Dafinia yesterday evening, Ive tried feeding him a tiny pinch this mornin of the dried ones and hes just not interested without them trying to escape. Theres a tiny amount of current in the water so they are moving around on the surface. I left them there for about 3 hours he didnt take any. Soon after I scoured the bucket for more live ones and came up trumps with 4 live ones, soon as they entered the tank he rushed to catch them and gobble them up, so he must be hungry. I guess I worry too much lol

Hahaha makes more sense now bro

Love the plant life you got in there now, looks great

The Mirror just worked very well, its quite incredible really seeing them flare up like that. Ill try get him to do it again later in front of a camera.

More great info thanks a bunch . Im almost certain hes a VT now, blue/red/purple kinda colours make him a very pretty lil man. Although a mirror hasnt worked as far as getting him to flare up yet, I think hes still a lil shell shocked from his previous owner. I havnt tried the mirror trick this morning, and hes a different fish today, confidently swimming around the entire tank, Ill give it a try after breaky

Cool thanks alot makes things much easier

I was going to say ich based on a funny american dad episode, http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm ... 0&aid=2421 was very interesting, but I dont know of any products availble in New Zealand

I guess this is easy to most of you but being my first real fish in 20 years I, well a lil out of touch. I recently got myself a lil male fighter, Im just wondering how to tell what kind he is? Do i have to put i mirror near him and see how his fins look when flared up (unsure of terminology when they do their lil thing lol) too see what kind he is? I dont think hes a Halfmoon but I really have no clue. Im guessing this cant be distinguished by colour. I would like to know what he is though because breeding them is fast becoming something Im very interested in. But I would like to make sure I dont mix breeds up to much, Id rather have seperate tanks with the different breeds in rather then mixing and matching, at least till I have a reasonable about of knowledge on them. Ok just a few other things to ask, HF = Halfmoon I know that one, but none of the other fighter abrieves so if someone knows where a topic already has that or can reply them here, I been searching through these all night and my intrest is just climbing further, I keep getting side tracked, at this rate im going to have to read every single post on this forum before i sleep tonight lmao

Im Matt and Cobys my new lil friend, hes just blown a whole bunch on bubbles hehe, hes pretty cute for a fish.

Coby's in his tank now and seems to be alot happier, swimming around, looking for more of those lil bugs he likes so much instead of just sitting in the corner. He still hasnt plucked up the courage to go and check out his lil skeleton axe warrior buddies there to liven the tank up, but im sure hes working on it.

Hey all, Just joined the site today as Ive got my first fish since I was about 7 yesrs old so nearly 20 years lol. And its a lil different to the round plastic goldfish bowl that Eric and Ralph lived. Today I basically had to resue a blue/red fighter, hes lovely looking though skinny and shittish. So I was a resue case myself now having no tank or anything!. Not to worry, the local super hero at living art sorted me out and is looking after Coby till I get the tank and everything in it all ready for my new lil buddy. I've been struck with fish love now though, I might end up with a female to acompany him and the prospect of breeding is very interesting. Well thats my extended "hello" glad to be a part of a great site and community