katrina.hughes

Here we go!

Hi guys, found this beautiful male guppy but unsure on what breed he is? Not an albino but still beautifully pink! Also would like to know what kind of female I should breed him with to get the colour through his spawn? Have tried with a blonde female but waiting for the fry to grow into their colours...

Here's my DT (finally) he/she had a bit of a scuffle with my semi-dragon and came out a bit worse for wear but fins have grown back so now as photogenic as ever! And below is my semi-dragon... got a slight deformity in his tail no matter - hes still a pretty boy.

I've had mine jump into the others compartment overnight THREE seperate times! So frustrating because their fins just start looking nice again and then they go and decide to do that :roll: Have made a lid now so shouldn't happen again. Lol. Was going to put pic of my double tail up but its looking too ragged for a photo shoot at the mo...

Not sure whether its a female or male though... if it's a male it is definatley a plakat. It's fairly young but it doesn't appear to have an egg tube and not showing any vertical stripes when presented to my male. Will post pic soon - may need some help in identifying him/her... lol :roll:

Done the recommended ratio salt dip 4 consecutive days in a row now - discus seems to be getting more and more sensitive to the salt... yesterday and today, within 5 seconds of putting him in the dip he would keel over and breathing rate dropped alarmingly! :-? What do I do! As soon as I take him out and put him back in freshwater he's fine... He's still breathing quite heavily when he's back in the community tank (once he's recovered from the salt bath) though. Should I continue with the salt dips until he gets better? Or try something else?

Brilliant website! Thanks! Will try it out tonight :happy2:

Hi all, been reading up on salt dips but can't seem to find any regularity in the salt/water ratios for salt dips... got a baby discus with suspected gill flukes and would love to know what process works best from anyone who has done successful salt dips? Also how long should you leave discus in the salt dip for? Aly help would be much appreciated :-)

He should have a good look at how the one in HHF is designed, also the one designed by AquaOne... its got a pretty good system going but I'm sure he can modify it to suit... :-)

thanks for all your kind word only a measly 7 made it... and 5 of them appear to be girls - unsure of the other two though, they are a wee bit smaller. A lot of them got this strange disease where all of the sick ones had really clamped fins, turned pale, started darting around before they died and when they did die I noticed that their skull/brain appeared swollen and raised... tried my best to cure it but it just wouldn't go away. Water changes, epsom salt, antibacterial meds - the lot! Nothing I tried seemed to work... don't even know what disease they really had - nothing on the net could help me.

cheers, time will tell if I get any males... but hey, at least I got something out of him before he died! lol

Sad news, my beautiful dragon male (profile pic) died... some bacterial infection ravaged my tank - took out a few of my females too :tears: can the new tap water play a part in bacterial infections? everything was normal and then one day I noticed my male was a little quieter than usual and the next day he was dead! Just a couple of days after that my 2 girls got dropsy, and then also lost a lot from my spawn (were in a separate by the way). Devastating! Here a couple from my spawn... got quite a few females from him but the ones that survived are showing the dragon scales :-)

I think they are called 'black devil's' just google black devil betta in images and you can see what they look like. Nah, I bought these ones separately - hoping to get a bit more of an even spread in regards to the red colouring :-)

Hopefully will get some nice offspring from them. My male was prettier... once upon a time lol - wasn't very photogenic tonight either

I've got one like him too... just getting him ready to breed with a similar female, will put sum pics up :-)

Its frustrating aye! Thats a lovely delta you've got as your profile pic - are you breeding from him?

Thanks guys! Will keep that all in mind for my next batch :-) Its amazing the size difference between individuals within the same batch

hi all, my fry seem to be taking forever to grow.... any handy tips for making them grow faster? I do regular water changes and feed them well but they are taking heaps of time to get bigger! Cheers

Unless I'm colour blind but is it actually bright pink...? I have never seen one before

Ohhh... my bad, thats good to know! :-) Would love to purchase one of you dragon females when one becomes available... also one question - do you know when the 'dragon' scales start to show on the youngsters?

Heaters are the bane of my life too... I had one blow on me in winter when my eggs had just hatched - lost the whole lot! He was my difficult male too... oh well - can only but try again aye. Such a shame you are giving up the hobby Adrienne - your fighters are beautiful!

Just stunning! love the OHM one he has beautiful even scaling. Do you have any pics of the female - havn't seen a pic of a female dragon in NZ yet :-)

Here's a short list of what I've been recommended in the past... -Baby Brine Shrimp (take a while to hatch though) -Decapsulated BBS -Infusoria (found in dirty pond water) -Boiled Egg Yolk (pollutes water as stated above) -Liquifry (hard to get the fry to eat this though) -Microworms -Daphnia Good luck with your fry :-)

Was my first batch of surviving fry so wasn't very prepared lol.

I would love to sorry for the late reply... don't really like xmas - you get far to busy!