Shirlsscott

Hi All Any of you guys know who has the best selection of plants available in Auckland, I know HFF have a small selection but is there any retailers or any of you guys growing plants to sell with a good selection...... everywhere I go it seems the plants are the same old same old..... Im looking to set up a 360lt planted tank but am starting to wonder if to bother as everyone has the same basic plants available...... really want a good selection like tropica has..... any help.... Thanks

Fry update.... Some of these guys are double the others so have started to split the bigger ones into a separate rearing tanks... A few have strong purples coming through and about 50% have the elephant ears.

Pics of the elephant ear please. And if you want two swap some when they spawn I'd be keen. I'm going try and breed a line of these so would be keen on any females. :spop:

I think i'll give them another week or two..... I have all my Kribs on trademe at the moment $1 reserve for about 70 babies all different ages and adults just dont have space for everything so the kribs have to go...... to make way for the fighters.... But worth it I think the fights are really cool to watch develope... Have two of the biggest ones turning purple around the head and front of the body which is a good sign at least some will develope or retain the purple

Pictures please :spop:

I think they ma be quite popular have had quite a few people pm looking to buy them.

Will try and load up some photos soon. They are getting to the stage were some are developing quite quick and a few are double the size of the rest :spop:

This is probably what has happened..... I am having really good results with the micro worms, so far lost only one fry out of the lot

Well done and good luck :thup:

Definately Eggs... I picked them up from him so dropped by yesterday and gave them back to him he apologized and said it hadnt happened before, he had a 5 lt bucket full and they didnt look to good...... i asked how long he had had them and he said just over a year..... I dont know how long they would last like that? he gave me my money back so im satisfied..... but i suspect the returned ones will go back in the bucket Cheers

Got a bag of brine shrimp of trade me and spent a week trying to hatch them, ive done it before a while ago but I just thought damn I must be doing something wrong! Went up to HFF Albany and had a chat, from their perspective i was doing everything perfect.... so bought some more eggs from HFF..... Hatched after 18hrs.... BEWARE TRADE ME!!!!!! Anyone tried frozen Mysis with three or four week old betta fry?

I take it from the over whelming replies thats a no then. :slfg: I'll have some crown tails available in a month or so, keep an eye out i'll post some photos in a month....

Going real well haven't lost a single one yet :thup: Hopefully going to transfer them into a bigger tank soon got an ar850 off trademe for $110 so fingers crossed this cleans up ok and no leaks and they will all go into that next weekend or maybe the weekend after. think I got myself a bargain.....

These guys are just to small at the moment, once they reach about 2-3 weeks i'll introduce brine shrimp. Dont have the time or access to anything else and also a bit messy... was going to try just micro worms.... recomended by another breeder to use them solely until they start accepting betta pellets, he has had some good success breeding and raising them with no deformities..... I have been told water quality is more imprtant for the first 4 weeks....so im panicking on that at the moment :-? Thanks :thup:

Yep im gonna be pretty busy over the next few months