My New Halfmoon(update "Spawned" )

[mematrix]

Hi All Here are some pics (a bit Clearer) of them at 3 weeks growing fast I got lots of them.
Enjoy Curtis

[eve]

oh wow, they grow quite fast on you i have to say
great pics

[goldenpuon]

Great job raising them. They have definietly grown since you last posted. They also look very healthy. Great job!

[mematrix]

Thank You Thank You for compliments . I don't have a clue as to how many I have but sure is a lot not as many as I got in 1974 ;D Def brings back memories Bettas were my very first fish and I spawned them like a month after I got a 10 gal for my B-Day back in 1974 owe it all to tetra press and their little book Bettas ended up with 250 they are what got me hooked on tropical fish Man that was a long time ago

Curtis

[Carl]

Mar 28, 2009 23:58:17 GMT -5 mematrix said:

Thank You Thank You for compliments . I don't have a clue as to how many I have but sure is a lot not as many as I got in 1974 ;D Def brings back memories Bettas were my very first fish and I spawned them like a month after I got a 10 gal for my B-Day back in 1974 owe it all to tetra press and their little book Bettas ended up with 250 they are what got me hooked on tropical fish Man that was a long time ago

Curtis

Thanks may go to Tetra Press, but I also say give yourself some credit too, as I have been in the hobby for some time (since 1968 as both a hobbyist and in a professional manner), and one thing I have noticed (& this includes myself), and that is some persons can read books and articles and still struggle with certain aspects of fish keeping while others just seem to "click".
From what I have already read of your fish keeping adventures, you are definitely someone with a real talent for breeding IMO.

Carl

[Suzie Q (Lori)]

Babies look great Curtis!!! Congrats again!

[mematrix]

Hi All Well Some more Bad luck I lost the HM Male Papa of this spawn last nite. He was sick a week and a half tryied every thing I was given tips on he was beaten up real badly by a plakat female lost most of his fins thought he was going to pull through but he didn't. So Now i am in market for another.
Now good news is fry are doing great growing fast majority are starting to get a lot of red in fins anal and tail their about a 1/2 in now. Looks like a few have died but not enough to really notice.

Curtis

[eve]

sorry to hear that
but at least you where able to spawn him

any picture updates

[mematrix]

Hi All as requested Here are pics of my 1 month olds Happy Birth Day LOL I tryied to get some of the red which every one has in their anal and tal fins some even have a little black along outeredges of said fins. It's really hard to get clear pics with a point and shoot camera zoom zooms to much and auto focus over and under focuses Plus the littel rascals won't pose for me either. LOL Any Way you can if you lok close see the red Their closing in on 3/4 in most of them anyway

Curtis

[Carl]

They are really coming along well. The red is quite noticable on some specimens.

Congrats once more on your continued success here!!

Carl

[eve]

that's really awesome
you can actually see the shape of the bettas very nice

[murdock6701]

congrats Curtis - maybe we should rub elbows or something! I raise platys - I know that may not seem like much of a challenge to most fish people out there, but it is what I enjoy most and have a pond I made outside where I rear them to sell that repicates their natural environment - living in northern Mich where we have 6 weks of bad ice fishing basically made it a challenge but I got it to work! lately however, I havent had much luck getting them to breed or they "hatch" when I'm asleep - am nowhere near the numbers I expected for this year so please send me a little of your luck!

[goldenpuon]

Congrats Curtis! They look great. They really look like bettas now, kind of like miniature females. I also see the red coming in on them. Great job!

[mematrix]

Hi All. Thanks Yea the little eating machines are coming around. I am still trying to see if all those folks On aquabid are telling the truth that their bettas ARE 3 MONTHS OLD It may be possible I sure trying to get mine as grown lol.

Curtis

[mematrix]

;D Hi ALL. I have some Updated Pics. 1.5 months old thease turned out better than last pics

Enjoy
Curtis

[goldenpuon]

Very nice. It looks like you have 2 young males sparring in the 1st picture. I can really see their red fins now.

[kagome]

That is so cool! The red has gotten so bright. They are really looking nice.

At what point do you have to separate the males from the females? And once you do how do you house everybody? I know you can keep several females together, but what about all those males? Just curious.

[goldenpuon]

Males have to be kept seperately (though I have heard of people keeping 2 males in a large tank). A lot of people keep them in jars though a 1 or 1 1/2 gallon is much better. Though if you have that many males, it can be hard to give them all much space.

[mematrix]

Hi Thanks Yea i haven't gotten that far in my preperations yet. I am working on deciding on what fish i have to part with so i can do a tank shuffel thinking on putting all of them in a 29 gal for a littel more grow out. I am collecting jars though lol

Curtis

[eve]

absolutely amazing

it's really awesome to see how they grow in such a short time

thank you so much for sharing this experience with us, i just absolutely love it