Trilobite

hahah yes!! :facepalm:

One of my lecturers said you can find green frogs around orana park...I used to collect tadpoles that grew into the brown frogs from a creek near travis wetland and the pond in bottle lake forest when I was a child, no idea if they are still there or not though. Dont know anything about species....

Wow !drool: I would never stop grinning if I had something like that

Pokemon FTW!

And tail type probably plays a big role on the extent of their hunting. Females and plakats dont have to drag along heavy fins like a hm

I have border collies, they can develop obsessive behaviors if its not nipped in the bud. Show bred lines tend to have lower drives than working lines. Good exercise is essential, they need more than a casual half hour walk and do best with mental stimulation, you could train it to herd your chickens around. They would definitely love going on adventures with your son.

Fighters will eat and chase fry if they see it. I fed mine guppy fry and they loved them. Both males and females do this.

She sounds like she has pretty colours. Check her tail ray branching when you see her, if its only got 2 ray branching and a round tail then most likey shes a VT :sage:

Thats no good...

hah! one of the most exciting things I've seen! Jealous! you must make a video of it in all its glory!! Did you get the shark one?

:sml2: :thup:

After Another tank tipped over and poured out some bettas. Fun times in chch

Welcome! :thup:

Nice male! The genetic make up of opaque White is C Bl Si Nr Op. C - Cambodian gene for lack of dark body pigment Bl - Steel blue pigment which appears silvery-white when on a light background Si - The spread of the iridocyte pigment, in this case steel blue over the fish Nr - Non-red, i.e. the inability of the fish t o produce red pigment Op - Opaque, the special gene that cause the opaqueness or powdery appearence of the fish 'Si' is treated as dominant, 'c' and 'nr' are treated as recessive, and 'Op' as partial dominant. opaque is partially dominant - a single allele for the trait will be visible, but 2 alleles will be very visible. You wont get opaques in F1 unless you find a matching female If I was you I would try and find a steel blue female with no redwash and breed a daughter back to the father. Personally I wouldnt use that female as red is very hard to erase from a line and is a huge colour fault in opaques...although your male has red loss so the result may be interesting... The picture of your female makes it difficult to tell her tail type as her fins are clamped. Try and avoid any VT females though, they will muck up your line finnage wise for a few generations. eventhough youll get pk back in F2 their spread, branching and overall finnage will be a mess. Finnagewise try and find a HM or HMPK female with the straightest outer tail edges you can find :smln: Good luck!

So your problem is male eating the eggs? If male is eating the eggs they could have been infertile or fungused. Sometimes males may fail to fertilze the eggs properly in their first spawning attempt. If you really dont want to risk the male eating eggs again you could try the artificial hatching method. Basically, after the eggs have been put in the nest, get a container and place it under the nest and scoop it up along with the eggs. You will have to take out any fungused eggs, then, when the fry have hatched and are free swimming put them in a larger tank. A more detailed description can be found here http://www.freewebs.com/majerah/artificialhatching.htm Good luck and dont give up :thup:

+1

It was far more useful to have them turned off so I told evolution to do it. Brimstone could only sit back and watch because he was on mars and couldnt reach the genes, they were too far away. Earth is quite far away from mars you see :sage:

Pretty sure that if its the "same moa species" that has evolved into a different species then it only shares a common ansestor and is now no longer a moa. Would be cool to try and bring back extinct animals even though its impossible. . Retroevolution now this is GM at its finest. Scientists have located the genes that turn off teeth and scale production in chickens and have managed to "turn the teeth growth gene back on" in embryos. They are finding or have found the gene process that stops birds tails from growing long and are searching for the genes that that changed there arms to wings. Once they have found these genes and turned non scale production, tooth production, tail growth and arm growth in a chicken embryo we will have chickens that look like dinosaurs. Bear in mind that these will only look like dinosaurs, they will still be chickens.

2 days off uni made the snow much more enjoyable :thup:

Very nice fish :nfs:

:roey: The men in silver were told me they would take 5 iguanas instead because their scales have been recently proven to expand when exposed to high concentrations of gamma radiation, much like that seen on mars during solar flares. When their scales expand, the iguanas can reach sizes up to 12m in length. It is for this reason tuataras have lost their oppertunity to go to mars.

All fighters are naturally solitary and highly territorial, even females. Males and females together is not a good idea. so many risks. 1.If a male sets up a territory he will defend it aggressively, if females that arent readdy to breed enter his territory he will act as aggressively to the female as he would to a male. 2.If a ripe female enters and they breed his aggression will be even higher because he will be caring for eggs. 3.you also run the risk of your females becoming egg bound because they are continuously in the presence of a male, females can die from this. You can keep an all female tank, however this also needs to be carefully managed. If the females are unrelated they will need to sort out a pecking order which means a fight is inevitable. If the females have been prevented from seeing other fighters, their territorial behaviour is increased and the fighting will be much worse to the point of potential deaths. Sometimes a dominant female will kill the submissive females. Sometimes there will be 2 dominant females who dont want to submit, these will fight in a simlar way to males (mine locked jaws with each other) Your tank will need to be big enough and have enough spaces for the submissive females to hide. getting related females would be safest, as they have grown up together and already sorted out the heireachy Oh and do not put two males together, it has been done but one male was most likely to be submissive and too afraid to threaten the dominant male. He would most likely have been very stressed being in the territory of a stronger male. If however you have a huge, heavily planted tank with enough room for each male to happily set out their territory you may get away with it. :smln: :sage: :smln:

Definately female fighters! though my opinion is very biased...

Welcome!

:bounce: :happy1: I freakin love Cesar!