Adrienne Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 I've been asked to post some pictures of some of my babies. These males and females are nearly 3 months old. males females Knowing the experience of some of you I will be interested in the feedback :lol: I've also taken some pics of my big tank with my new camera so will check them out and maybe post them in the freshwater section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 I want number 2 and the last one! :nilly: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 !drool: When can I come over? :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trilobite Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 love your dragon pks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZ_Fishboy Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 The 1st female, 1st and 5th male look awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burrowssj Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 number 1-2 are awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted March 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 wanting more feedback than 'they are awesome'. Want to know what you think about some of the tails? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfishybuisness Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 defentily cross number 2 male with number 1 female Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 I personally quite like the "rose tails" 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trilobite Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 pic 6 looks looks like an extreme rosetail. He shows the extreme heavy branching, uneven scaling and uber small caudal typical of x factors. personally I dont like the look of the x factor RTs. pic 4 also shows quite heavy branching but not as bad. http://www.bettaterritory.nl/BT-AABRosetails.htm Girl 2 is my all time favourite , boy 2 comes in close behind :love: she has a strong body and nice dragon scaling and colours let me know if you sell her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted March 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 I've paired this female with this boy who is 8 months old and totally unrelated They spawned today so hopefully the eggs are fertile and will hatch in a decent sort of number. She is very young but I didn't want to wait too long because of his age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfishybuisness Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 thats a realy good colour match, they both have realy deep red finns !drool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted March 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 pic 6 looks looks like an extreme rosetail. He shows the extreme heavy branching, uneven scaling and uber small caudal typical of x factors. personally I dont like the look of the x factor RTs. pic 4 also shows quite heavy branching but not as bad. http://www.bettaterritory.nl/BT-AABRosetails.htm Girl 2 is my all time favourite , boy 2 comes in close behind :love: she has a strong body and nice dragon scaling and colours let me know if you sell her Thank you so much for the link. Thats the sort of info I was hoping to get out of posting the pictures. I was a bit stunned when I saw him and it appears that quite a few more from this dragon spawn are going to follow suit. The randomness that comes from breeding fighters in NZ has certainly come out in this particular spawn (different to the spawn that has produced the red and silver, red and green dragons) as I also appear to have the odd double tail popping up again. :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshlikesfish Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 Looking good! (as usual) The 5th male is wicked. Could do with a bigger tail though? Awesome colour line though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 That's a solid pairing Adrienne! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted March 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 Yes, I've been hanging out hoping that the big males (imports) wouldn't die off before this lot of young got old enough to breed from. I've lost a couple of the mature males (imports) in the last couple of days and all my females from the original spawn (the females are the mothers of the girls I am using) that I bred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshlikesfish Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 Want to spread out the genes to make sure they are not lost? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trilobite Posted March 28, 2011 Report Share Posted March 28, 2011 Thank you so much for the link. Thats the sort of info I was hoping to get out of posting the pictures. I was a bit stunned when I saw him and it appears that quite a few more from this dragon spawn are going to follow suit. The randomness that comes from breeding fighters in NZ has certainly come out in this particular spawn (different to the spawn that has produced the red and silver, red and green dragons) as I also appear to have the odd double tail popping up again Who were the parents of that spawn? x factors are the result of crossing two fish with heavy branching. NZs low genetic diversity screws us up :nilly: I think I've read somewhere that dragon is related to copper somehow and its possible to get dragon back in F2 when a dragon is crossed with a copper (dont quote me on this though :oops: ). If its true it may help to introduce new blood into your dragon line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted March 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2011 The parents of this spawn were siblings. Their parents were a green and red dragon delta tail, very similar to Katrina Hughes avatar and a red halfmoon who I bred from a male and female purchased from two other fighter breeders here in NZ. I think this is where the dt came in as another spawn from fish from these fighter breeders produced a few dt. All I can think of is that somewhere plakat has been crossed with hm to get stronger rays. I have at least 4-5 males with the short rosetails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trilobite Posted March 28, 2011 Report Share Posted March 28, 2011 lucky finds with the dt through backs extreme rts have short caudals because it is a genetic deformity, extreme rt pks have shorter than normal tails aswell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted March 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 they hatched today - little white balls with tails moving up and down and in random patterns near the nest. Seem to be quite a few so dad is struggling to keep them up in the nest :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshlikesfish Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 I love it when they first hatch :love: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted March 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 its dads second spawn so at least he knows what he is doing. His first has about 30 which seem to be doing really well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshlikesfish Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 You bred them, of course they are doing well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trilobite Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 :happy1: yay congratulations!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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