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Blue marble DT x Blue grizzle HMPK

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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.
 
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Thanks guys :-D.

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.
 
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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.
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Good thing is that I have her offspring.
 
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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...).
 
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Yea. I'm sad and frustrated right now, but there is nothing I can do (which is why I'm frustrated). Hurts more when it's unexpected.

Really hoping for a son/daughter or two that look like her. They are starting to get big (well, relatively lol)!
 
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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.
 
#21 ·
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.
 
#22 ·
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... :(
 
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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.
 
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