Your first pair

[FlareThis]

great idea for a thread!!

I know I have pictures somewhere I will have to dig them up later!! My first spawn was about 5 years ago. The male was a red marble crowntail named Pedro and the female was a red cambodian crowntail named Apple. They spawned really fast, Pedro had a HUGE nest. There were well over 200 eggs in the nest, got lots of little fry, but like 1fish2fish I also severely underestimated the amount of care and attention they would need and none of them made it past 2 weeks old! It was a great learning experience though!!

[Dragonlady]

I got started with bubblenesters with paradisefish many years ago. Their spawning method and raising the fry is almost identical to bettas. My first hm pair was a blue butterfly male and a very high contrast color dark marble female. I have pictures of them somewhere.