check my guy

[chardzard]

from my Oct 2012 spawn wat should i try to do to inprove on him

[MattsBettas]

Wow! In only three months? Do you power grow? And I would breed him to a over half moon of similar color because it looks like he is badly, if even reaching 180 degrees.

[MattsBettas]

Sorry! Meant to say barely!

[chardzard]

ok yea power growing is so hard lol i have a spawn that came off a rosetail some of them are HM OHM and 1 that look like it's going to be a bad rosetail but they r not copper tho wat i'll have to do is check the copper females to see if any of them have good branching
this guy came from same spawn too

[veggiegirl]

wow your fish are beautiful!

[chardzard]

thx trying very hard to inprove them , back in 2010 i got a copper butterfly male that look all most like the 1 in the first post but not dark from 1 of my friends , got a female she was green/black from other friend but at that time i did not know about branching and how to tell them none of the other guys had no ideas eather they use to breed any thing to any thing so now i'm trying to get it clean up,oh most of the spawn like like male in the 2nd pic

[veggiegirl]

You should be proud of what you have achieved

[chardzard]

i'm i'm but still have a long way to go with that copper line couse the male i use last july was from a pet store , show a bit of yellow in the ventrals fins so now i have some of them that are not to sure wat to call them lol i show u 1 i realy like but not sure i want to work that line ,the first spawn show some purple copper too

[inareverie85]

They all need an HM spread and sharpness in the caudal edges. Try to find a nicely branched girl with 180 spread and SHARP edges.

The second and third boys also have kind of spiky (messy) dorsal and anal fins, so if you are breeding these, make sure that the female is also very clean in those areas.

[aemaki09]

When looking for someone to add to the line, look for a clean dorsal, level anal, and long first and last rays in their tail and first rays in dorsal to give it that sharpness. Also try to look for an OHM to give them more of a spread.