Adrienne Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 A couple of pics of my young males whom I am hoping to spawn this week. I have a nice matching female for each of them but they are still very young so we will see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 Ooo! Very nice Adrienne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted December 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 Ooo! Very nice Adrienne I think they are. The top one is an OHM male and the lower one is a delta tail/hm cross but the hm side is not true. Hopefully the next generation will be better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 Do some crosses to PK please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshlikesfish Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 These fish are even better in real life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trilobite Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 Wow, I love them! looking forward to see what you get from these guys Do some crosses to PK please +1 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted December 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 This coming year I hope you will see fighters of a quality never seen before in NZ come out of my fishroom There may not be as many but it will be worth it imo. I've just purchased another big (deep and wide) 4ft tank and stand giving me 5 x 4fts in the shed plus my others bringing my total of tanks to 19 if all are up :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 Can't wait! Just getting a divided tank together, I need to fill it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshlikesfish Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 Time for 1000000000 pm's about dragons :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted December 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 Given that it may well be my last year of seriously breeding fighters I'm going to give it my all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshlikesfish Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 Given that it may well be my last year of seriously breeding fighters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 Awesome stuff A! I'll let you know if I get more info about my shipment too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 Given that it may well be my last year of seriously breeding fighters I'm going to give it my all That'd be a fine way to go out. Hopefully if you sell any tanks and fish, they go to someone just as passionate that can keep the amazing fighters you have bred going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfishybuisness Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 Awesome stuff A! I'll let you know if I get more info about my shipment too. shippment ? are you getting stuff imported Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted December 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 me - no! Phoenix, I don't know about but he was talking about getting back into fighters. I've worked really hard over the past few years to develop various colour lines and tail types only to lose them I'm finding it seriously hard to source from others good fish of the tail type and colour I need to keep bringing new blood into the lines I do have. This year I am going to concentrate on the quality and not so much the quantity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlums Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 Its great to see such passion in breeding fighters Adrienne, we need to keep the purity as high as we can in NZ. You doing a great job. My Halfmoon breeding is still doing great, Ive slowly getting to where I need to be with my gene pool, just wish we had more variety. Cheers J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted December 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 Hi John I know what you mean about variety. I've made it where I've wanted to be a couple of times in the last few years after many many months of work to then not be able to source unrelated fish which has meant I have had to pretty much start over. Breeding fighters is not like breeding guppies or some other species, it takes a lot more time and patience, and in the most cases space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katrina.hughes Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 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 :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted December 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 I'll try get some pics of some of my females this weekend. The two spawns hatched however heater problems as in temp dropped to 23 then rose to 32 have resulted in a reduced sized survival rate however I have another spawn from one of the males (the latest spawn I had a different male ate the eggs :evil: ), which has hatched and at this stage looks to be a good number. The females are either green, blue or greeny blue with red and a couple of pink/purple girls as well which will match my other males. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Sounds hopeful Adrienne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katrina.hughes Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted December 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Didn't say I was giving it up , however we are likely to be moving in the next twelve months and then I will have to pay for power and water. I'm thinking that will seriously curb the number of tanks I can have :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshlikesfish Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Heaters are the bane of my life too...I wont need them soon! :happy2: :nilly: Didn't say I was giving it up , however we are likely to be moving in the next twelve months and then I will have to pay for power and water. I'm thinking that will seriously curb the number of tanks I can have :roll:FISH ROOM FISH ROOM FISH ROOM FISH ROOM! You can set up a jar/bottle system? In a heated room you could even do straight bottles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katrina.hughes Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted December 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 I can't remember when mine started to show but they were only few weeks I think. They grew very fast. Not all of them showed the dragon scaling, just some of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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