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thankyou leslie!

I Speak for all of us when I say .....YAYAYAYAYA PHOTOS.... good man!

These fish DO exist, and peer-pressure still works.

amazeballs!

Thanks dudes, There's a few pairs in the spawn tank - fingers and toes crossed.

x

Uploading video still, however I can show off a few new noodles ... I got another Big Red Ned (this is take #4) ......and while he's not a game changer, I do like his .....attitude? perspective? redness?

Anyway - his misssus is nicer than he is.... and she's nice too.

Unfortunately I've had a big red dream all my betta life, and NO LOVE... had some salamander love, but NO LOVE IN THE SPAWN TANKS.... not proper anyway.

WANT RED.

This is the full brother to Sarah's Red guy.

I'll get a better shot of her, but i'm so excited, she's true halfmoon - and probably has DT as I suspect her brother (above) has:

Hey Simon,

It all begins with one little veil tail... I remember "angry" my first little maniac, I couldn't get over how amazing the colour could be on one little fish - and the attitude!

Now my numbers have blown out into the hundreds over the years - my how things change.

I'm now known as the crazy fish lady in my social circles... oops.

The ASV meets are great for general fishkeeping, but i'll also encourage you to visit one of our Vic betta days - there are only 4 meets a year, but we jam a LOT in on those days.

Have a poke around the forum, ask away - search away... enjoy

x Ness

Hey Adam,

Always a bit tricky navigating the courtship process, there's plenty of tips and tricks on this forum... you're also welcome to have a peek at my youtube channel (link in my signature under resources) that has some examples of spawning behavior.

There's a thread too showing courtship videos.

Bus's advice echo's what I would have said, you want to expose them enough that he's got a big nest, not too agro... and she's showing breeding bars, and is confident (not getting beaten up, running away ALL the time and is flirting under the nest)

Welcome to the forum!

-Ness

(oh, and check out the facebook victoriabetta page, or our website) x

cool!

Lettuce not forget this....

Hey Silver,

I'd suggest the first boy is indeed dragon (white scales) over cambodian/blond + red (as his body is a little bit washed out with the cambodian/blond gene) with lovely red fins.

He may also carry the marble gene as he has those the white edges (butterfly edges) around the fins.

I wonder if he's technically a Symmetrical Plakat? as opposed to an Asymmetrical PK.... maybe someone can answer this for you...

Batchelor #2 is commonly called a 'Salamander' or 'Lavender' - these terms are interchangable at the best of times.

Essentially he's got a red base, and over the top is a metallic layer of blue (is he shimmery under bright light?) this gives the purpley effect of lavender/salamander, it's very commonly paired with butterfly (which is a result of the marble gene) he's also got that little rim of white around the edges.

Asymmetrical PK

Final boy, yep- spot on, he's got spread iridesence, but not full mask (so the blue is over the body, not the black face) Metallic blue, with red wash underneath.... probably showing through the most on the ventrals and anal fin?

Another Asymmetrical PK

Cheers,

Ness

After my big mural painting (using aerosol) outside a bus stop, I'm pretty sure I've spent the past three days 'motivated' artificially.

I've also enjoyed all the busmans coming out and telling me what they think of my work....

Hillarium, all I could think of was Busman coming out asking why I don't paint a big bloody crowntail on the side of the wall.

x

it is macintosh.

infact both of my mac's won't let me update status.

google chrome.

I just tried in safari, laughing i was, when I clicked, skeptical I was.

it worked.

FUUUUUUUuuuuu

So I used to try and post links to youtube and stuff, but then I noticed the status thingy on here wouldn't even let me post plain text.

What up with that.

There are things I need to say.

Things that need to be said.

Broadcast to the world.

I tried turning it off and on again. No avail.

Nice work, it'll be great to see shots of all the fish... is it possible to tally up what people's water changes and feeding regiemes have been...?

Algae, actually, thats the only other time i've seen anything like this.

Is there a sort of oily slick over the surface, or a sort of slimy scum that is a bit like when milk gets a skin when it's going off..

uh.. my stomach churned then just thinking about it.

(There's one on every forum)

MATT95 WOULD KNOW WHY PLANTS BUBBLE.

i dont.

Duckweed is ready to spawn....

....appears to be working - I can't see what Razzi said.

Phew

NO MOAR AUTHORITY! Wooo!! I'm gunna ignore all the mods and run around in the nude!

I'm a slacker

I stick my finger into the buckets as they fill (checking temp when I get back to the fishroom, but I've developed the uncanny ability to mix hot and cold water from the tap to 24-26 degrees)

Then treat water with Aquarium Salt/IAL/Carbonate hardness powder/Decholorinator/Love

And then dump it in on un-suspecting fry/adults/etc

Yes, there is - it depends on what set of rules the show is being held under - for example the minimum body size for IBC is a bit bigger than the Victoria Betta group's table shows.

This is because we are only a small club working towards the big-league - you can find our specific table show rules here: http://www.victoriab...able-shows.html

The site states:

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Hi Mike,

there's a few hot tips about keeping betta here - the basics are covered on the Victoria Betta Website.

Also look into the forum threads on here for care instructions

I found the little Dymax IQ3 were a good size, you could fit a heater in the back, and the filtration was... well.. it was okay... water changes every 2 weeks was fine for one fish.

So good luck - don't get a tiny vase, and welcome to the forum

I do too - I guess I just hate the PM System on this forum... I could just disable that too..

aaaanyways

Hi, Welcome x

Yuh. I'm loosing.

Hey Gary,

Welcome to the forum, you'll have fun going through the spawn logs and there's heaps of advise in the gene pool threads - good luck with your pairs, have a poke through the search engine - and feel free to start some threads to get the ball rolling if you have questions.

Cheers,

Ness

wel. come.

Thanks Dudes.

I am kind of loving all the puffed out chests, but its just a trivial thing I wanted to know RELAX I LOVE YOU ALL MAN....

Clearly I am noisy enough to take care of my own, I just was curious if the forum had this sort of mechanism.

And the fact people might have wanted to know, but didn't ask, means it's worth asking. AY YAN - now you can *sniff* ignore... *sniff* .... me.

Cheers guys x