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mabey means one of these?.. i used it for a single male, then split it in two for two males, then used it for a spawning tank :lol:

having mixed results with my other fry, ive been testing out betta starter and i was amazed at how well the fry took to it, but it needs to be finely crushed for the first two weeks and i stopped crushing it up a little too soon and lost alot of fry. my BOvt X melano pk only had about 20 babies...

oh well... she ate all the eggs :unsure:

well you could always breed them until you find the fect match, and then breed him with his match if you find one

so here she is withe her tiny nest. it was a broad flat nest at first but she has compacted them into a tight ball now. ive seen her gather up eggs in her mouth and spit them into a bubble. there are defo less eggs than this morning so i guess she will pick off the infertile ones, which i guess...

well they have been put into their tank now. the bag with the male and babied i put into a container so i could syphon off the babies and i put them in a tank with a load of baby splendens, some of the splendon fry are growing fast so i hope they dont eat the baby simplex, time will tell. ok so...

ok, so i had two new spawns set up, one pair (both pks) have not done anythinmg at all, not even a nest has appeared and the pair ignore each other almost completely, in fact i suspect the male may possibly be a very boyish female, or just a big woose!! anyhow!!... teh other pair (a delta girl...

got them! :hyper: one of the males had a mouth full of babies and the stress of the jurney home caused him to spit some of them out, but they seem well doveloped and so long as he dont eat them while in the floating bag acclimatising, then i rekon they will be fine :good: you have a pm devon_charm

if they are still there when i get back to them, il get you a pair :good:

last time they had them in they were in for weeks, so fingers crossed. they were not labbeled or anything, i just knew right away what they were and had to ask how much they were

UPDATE 17. 3 . 2008 fry are mostely doing well now, three weeks old. there is a wide range of sizes, some are still very small, only about the size of newborn molly fry, but some are about 3/4 of a cm long and starting to show some colour.. nice and dark :good:

awwr i should have got them there and then. they guy tried so hard to sell me them aswell. i wont be able to get back in for another week

ive set up a devided breeding tank with a pair either side. i have my male yellow pk and marble pk female in one side and my blue/red CT male and blue marble delta female in the other side, il get pics up of the tank and pairs soon, but heres "file" photos of the pairs.. the little marble girl...

one of my lfs has a dozen or so simplex in and i was sooo close to buying them.. and i still kinda want to, i just cant decide. there was a large male with a throat full of eggs/fry and another pair were wraping and spawning right in front of me.. £14 per pair, im soo tempted..should i?

what a fantastic find!! well done! lol, dont feel guilty, im sure everyone else here would have done the same :lol:

hmmm.... the pics are not so clear, but it looks like a VT female. just a feisty and aggressive one.

he can possibly see his reflection on the glass and is squaring for a fight with himself :lol:

not all males have long finnage, the vast majority of males you see in pet stores are "veil-tailed" which is a long finned variety. the "plakat"(PK) has short fins similar to the wild form of the species. alot of pk males are sold as females as most pet stores dont know that they even exists and...

oh oh when???

ovipositor is not conclusive at all... but releasing eggs is certainly conclusive :rolleyes:

HM CT

its a plakat, thats for sure. but im not so certain its female, looks a bit boyish to me. do you have more pics?

it all depends on what the parent fish were bred from. i paired a male pk to a female vt last year and the young where a mixed bunch. all the males were VT and the females were mostley plakat, but with slightly longer fins. aparently this cross should produce "round tails", slighlty longer...

lucky you :lol: i have a lovely lil yellow/gold/butterscotch/pinapple (whatever he is) male in a spawn tank now, im gona pair him up with my marble pk girl if i cant get a yellow female for him

i just want the yellow one and the white one :shout:

what sort of filter do you have? ive seen what you have descibed happen to males in pets store that use under gravel filters, the betta just investigates something in the gravel and the tail and anal find get gentle sucked against the gravel