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Marble HM x Red HM Sibling

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#1 ·
We have some free swimmers now so the work starts for real. Smokey is one of my favorite males and bred him with Storm my favirite girl. They are siblings from the same spawn and happy to report not a scratch on either fish from the spawning. Fish are 4.5 months old.

Smokey



Storm

 
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#11 ·
Well I plan on taking the best of this Spawn and then crossing in my Giant HM pair. Long term goal a stable Giant marble HM line that has good form and unique colors. Find a few more nice ones along the way, Yes I know I wont win any shows with this goal but thats ok no shows anywhere near me anyway.
 
#20 ·
bb123 and I decided it was too risky to send Storm via mail. IM0 she is my my best female so she thankfully stayed behind. This spawn had something happen to it and not sure what. There is only 5-7 that became free swimmers. Suspect is usual water issue as I tried one last time before rainwater was running. Today I added a tank heater and filter to my barrel which finally unfroze so I could drain it. the 5-7 fry look ok but still a very disapointing situation.
 
#22 ·
This water thing can be pretty annoying sometimes. I've always kept cichlids and they've been fine, in fact they do pretty well, my fry are growing quickly, other the other hand these bettas just hate it and it doesn't do much for em.

Looks like I'm gonna have another batch of eggs from my cons tonight. If anybody is interested pm me. They have half black half pink. Unless some are marble aswell but I can tell at this stage.
 
#23 ·
We have the best chichlid water in the world outside Lake Malawi :-(

This is why you see so many chichlid breeders here I used to be one of them.

The water here is ok to keep adult betta with proper care of couse.

As a betta breeder Ive given up and must use a mix of tap rain or ro water to lower gh and kh...even ph for the spawn tank. Also curls and taters fins of even well kept betta. So to thrive adjustments must be made imo.
 
#25 ·
Yeah I bred some nasty big Oscars with ease in this water. Usually ial lowers ph in most peoples water. Here it does very little that way. Its that hard and stable. Also stability of ph gh and kh is critical. Playing with it and making error can cause fluctuations which can cause more problems to betta than just living with the issues. It really only causes me major problems with the hatching of the eggs.
 
#28 ·
Thanks royal. Yes it helps to stay positive. They are a well fed group of fry and much easier to take care of for sure than hundreds. Might just grow them out in the same 10g tank cuz so few of them. Thankfully the ones that managed to hatch look very healthy.
 
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