Male is from petco, female is from 3Dbetta on aquabid. Male has a short but destructive tail biting episode that was quickly fixed (filter output was too strong), which is why his tail is such a mess. His form is not too bat, though. The female is awesome and has great form. Goal for this spawn is to get nice looking marbles and grizzled, on my way to HMPKDT.
Female. Her spread has gotten much better as she got older.
Nuzzling/flirting with the male
Wrapping
Female, stunned from the wrap
Female picking up eggs (four dots beside her left eye)
Male before he marbled like crazy.
The male was a bad daddy and ate most of the eggs, but I pulled him out and still have a few fry. I like small spawns though, so no big deal.
I would have preferred if the male didn't compleatly change on me, but the genes are all there, so hopefully I get some that look like the male in the last pic.
By tails do you mean tails in the nest or actual tails on the fry? Cause the're all free swimming now. Some even have a bit of blue iridescence if I shine a flashlight on them.
I've started dripping 2g/day of water into the tank... When it gets full I start doing 50%+ water changes every day. This batch should have no problems growing since there are so few of them.
That's the beauty of marbles. You never know what you're going to get.
Tails in the nest but as they're free swimming they won't be in the nest now LOL.
That female is stunning! I wish we lived in the same country, I'd totally want to buy one or two from you in the future. Though I do go to Ontario every year to two years.
Mom passed today. Went out to dinner with my family and came home to her dead on the bottom of her cup. That was a shock as she was perfectly healthy and swimming around, content as can be, right before I left. She was my favorite and I'm pretty upset about it. I'll take her in tomorrow and do a necropsy but I doubt it will be conclusive, though if it is I will report the results to all of you. View attachment 205457
Good thing is that I have her offspring.
She was a grizzle and never changed. "Marble"doesn't always mean "changing".
All my girls are in (large) cups right now, floating in the sorority. I recently converted it into an npt and it isn't safe to add them as of yet. They get water changes every day (for the most part...).
I have been reading along with this thread and just checked in to see how things were going for you, and what a tragedy. She was an absolute stunner of a female.
She's honestly the nicest female I have ever had. Lots of personality, she swam around like mad and went crazy for food. I only had her for two months, so I am pretty sad, dissapointed, and frustrated, but I am so thankful I have her fry. My favorites always die before they should (and my impulse purchase special needs fish live forever, no word of a lie).
The necropsy was inconclusive but I really only looked for myco, internal parasites, and gill damage.
It must be possible for fish to have things like aneurysms. I often wonder when fish die very suddenly and with no symptoms whether something like that has not happened.
Yes, I suppose it is possible. I mean, in theory the fact that they have blood means they can get blood clots.
It's just so weird for a fish to just drop dead. I will catch pretty much -any- differences in my fish and can always tell as soon as they start going downhill, but nope, not with this girl.
So, so sorry, Matt!!! I had one of my males go like that last week....no sign of illness at all! I'm just very glad you did at least get to breed her...I think your grief at losing her would be much more acute if you hadn't. But it's still hard...
One of our girls went like that last week. We noticed she was a bit lethargic & was just resting on the plants so set up the hospital tank & went to get her & she'd passed. :-( Didn't get to breed her sadly.
Fry pic! It's bigger then it looks and has a bit of iridescence that doesn't show... But it appears on camera now lol. Sorry for the dirty bottom, today's cleaning day.
Lots of water changes and food has them growing nice and quick... Still want to see growth pick up a bit more though- Heres a two week photo- View attachment 209657
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