nmonks
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Folks,
Right now the lady halfbeak in my tank is waddling about surely only a week or so from giving birth. I append a couple of pictures. In the second picture, the 'gravid spot' is very obvious, and one of the interesting things is that frisky males seem to dive down and look for this spot, presumably do find out if she's receptive. After they've taken a look, them swim off.
These pictures also give you an idea how big this fish is: she's about 9 cm (3 inches) long, but very deep bodied. If she wanted to, I'm sure she could eat one of the cardinal tetras, or heck, even one of the smaller halfbeaks, and yet she seems perfectly content to take flake and frozen. She's about 50% longer than the largest male, and easily three of four times more massive. Another oddity is that big females feed at all levels, including from the substrate. Males feed, as far as I can tell, only from top level of the tank. In fact the females seem rather smart, and right now she's sitting at the front of the tank watching me, begging for food.
Anyway, for those folks into livebearers and looking for something a bit different, these Celebes halfbeaks are well worth looking out for.
Cheers,
Neale
Right now the lady halfbeak in my tank is waddling about surely only a week or so from giving birth. I append a couple of pictures. In the second picture, the 'gravid spot' is very obvious, and one of the interesting things is that frisky males seem to dive down and look for this spot, presumably do find out if she's receptive. After they've taken a look, them swim off.
These pictures also give you an idea how big this fish is: she's about 9 cm (3 inches) long, but very deep bodied. If she wanted to, I'm sure she could eat one of the cardinal tetras, or heck, even one of the smaller halfbeaks, and yet she seems perfectly content to take flake and frozen. She's about 50% longer than the largest male, and easily three of four times more massive. Another oddity is that big females feed at all levels, including from the substrate. Males feed, as far as I can tell, only from top level of the tank. In fact the females seem rather smart, and right now she's sitting at the front of the tank watching me, begging for food.
Anyway, for those folks into livebearers and looking for something a bit different, these Celebes halfbeaks are well worth looking out for.
Cheers,
Neale
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And you do realize this topic is over 3 months old? All the old topics got bumped back up when I moved them for the new subforum. 
I feel dumb now! I didn't realize the posts were just kind of regurgitated from the old combined forum. Oh well. She is pretty though.
