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Post by bettagupp on Sept 28, 2005 17:54:33 GMT 10
Hi all.....had a nice surprise this morning when I found nineteen fry in the tank.  With a bit of luck the other two females should have theirs in the next week or so. Sorry about the poor pics I hope no one gets flash blind.......could'nt get good macro shots of the fry, my fault and probably not the cameras.   |
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Post by Bumblebee on Sept 28, 2005 23:23:02 GMT 10
At leats they arnt fuzzy at all ;D. Congratulations on the fry! they look nice and healthy. Looks like they have good mums and dads that havnt made a quick snack of them. you are lucky.
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Post by bettagupp on Sept 29, 2005 14:39:12 GMT 10
Thanks bumblebee. I kept the four of them pretty juiced up in the last three weeks and have not had much trouble in just a speices tank.....touch wood.
I have not had guppy fry for ages but have had a few betta spawns this year and when I saw the guppy fry they looked HUGE!!!.....it was a bit of a shock really.
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Post by Bumblebee on Sept 29, 2005 18:13:40 GMT 10
yes, I just had a nice spawn of 600+ betta, you really have to thank gups for their large 'ready to flake feed' fry ;D
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Post by bettagupp on Sept 29, 2005 22:55:12 GMT 10
600.  best of luck with them. My last lot was was 74 of the demanding little so and so's. Did you breed the big red guy in your photo signature. |
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Post by Bumblebee on Sept 30, 2005 10:03:51 GMT 10
I tried, but he tried to kill her. Instead she ended up spawning with a lavender marbled VT betta I had for a pet for 2 years. Unfortunatley I lost most of the spawn as I have the tanks floating in my 60 gal and in jumped a gup one night when I ended up in hospital (forgot to put the lids back on) an endler also jumped into the male bettas tank and all I found in the morning was a head The remaining fry are ok and about the size of gup fry at the moment. Is that a Plakat in your avatar BTW? |
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Post by bettagupp on Sept 30, 2005 13:13:12 GMT 10
wow thats a heap of bad luck, sorry to hear it.
Yeah he was little ripper, he was jet black to the naked eye and only showed white-lightblue under a flash. I wish plakats were more plentiful here.....if they were I'd have heaps of them, the colours now are unreal are'nt they. I never bred with him because I could not find the right girl and did not want to put him with a regular vt. Sadly I had to put him down on sunday as he had a tumor type growth that got worse and was virtually untreatable. Thats fishkeeping I guess.
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Post by Bumblebee on Sept 30, 2005 13:28:55 GMT 10
thats terrible  . I hate it when things like that happen to your favourites. Hope you can get some plakats. People are getting more into the different varietys so they seem to be available a little more. I would love one of the half-moon or double tail ones. I might ask the admin to put a special betta section in tank mates, they seem a very popular discussion topic all ready |
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Post by Cyberguppy on Sept 30, 2005 13:37:51 GMT 10
nice fry, hope they grow up into some nice gups for you!.
Have created a betta sub-board, I know people are very passionate about them and without a good place to talk they often go OT ;D
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Post by bettagupp on Sept 30, 2005 16:50:37 GMT 10
Thanks Cyberguppy.....I moved the adults an hour ago as I could only count 17. I wont be able to keep an eye on them good enough over the weekend so better be safe with them. Great stuff about the betta sub board....good on you both.  ;D |
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Post by Bumblebee on Sept 30, 2005 16:56:31 GMT 10
good idea, I dont think I would trust a potentially hungry gup either, as soon as their bellys start rumbling those fry start looking like a nice snack ;D
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best of luck with them. My last lot was was 74 of the demanding little so and so's. Did you breed the big red guy in your photo signature. 
. I hate it when things like that happen to your favourites. Hope you can get some plakats. People are getting more into the different varietys so they seem to be available a little more. I would love one of the half-moon or double tail ones.
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