Bred my bettas

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Oh wow those are gorgeous also.
I love seeing them in in a big environment like that. I was at petsmart a little bit ago and was looking at thier display. All of them just looked sad Just because they can survive in a deli cup doesn't mean they should be kept in one.

 

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Well, I have three in cups right now lol

Trying my hand at selling the last males instead of store credit. But they would kill each other in one tank. At least the females hang out in groups and are just as pretty
The cup is basically for the breeder to grow him to store size then the store to hopefully sell it quick or care for it until they do and it gets a proper tank. They get regular water changes from me. Cannot say the same for stores Which is why the Bettas I'm shooting for will be sold to a well respected wholesaler.

Not for Bettas, but the larger than expected cichlid I adopted got a new tank today. Gonna have a lot of caves and a sand pit for digging
He's our Alex of the fish tanks. Starting to get him to hand feed too

 

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Cichlids are gorgeous, but all the ones I've been around were tank wrec.... rearrangers lol

 

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This female earned her name today. First one in the sorority to get a name. Also the first to have red in her fins like Mom. But after playing games swimming in and out of the net when I was feeding them, I said she's acting like Loki out dog. That's when it clicked, Sylvie. She's a fish variant lol

 

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One goldfish so far coloring up. Moved them into a tank in the kitchen near the pond for better viewing.

Which opens the 30 up for my native sticklebacks.

 

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Been awhile since I posted a Betta lol
Pinkies brother, Brain.

Violet

Violet is my next breeding female. Petunia was her mother, so keeping with floral names for the maternal line.

Sneak peek of the last spawn.

 

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Stickleback tank addition. I believe they are peamouth chubs. Hoping to grow them up a bit to identify. Not a salmonid or sucker.

 

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Been awhile since I posted a Betta lol
Pinkies brother, Brain.
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Violet
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Violet is my next breeding female. Petunia was her mother, so keeping with floral names for the maternal line.

Sneak peek of the last spawn.
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They are gorgeous

 

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They are gorgeous

Been a bit since I posted goldfish too. This one I hope is one I am aiming for. Blue spots like dad.

Some potential some likely food for a bigger fish. With goldfish they can change colors and patterns for a few years. But I'm not breeding show fish, I breed to study genetics. It's like watching Matrix code at this point with livebearers and getting there with Bettas. Blonde, magenta, flame tail etc.... These are just unknown coding right now.

 

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Translucent gene at play on a white body.

Grey body, also with translucent gene but showing a lot of pearl.

Starting to be able to see the head shape difference of the young. There are goldfish and koi shapes for the head / body that are beginning to become apparent to me. Going to move them into a tub in the garage so they can experience "winter" with cooling down into the 50's at night but heating during the day.

 

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View attachment 92854 Translucent gene at play on a white body.
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Grey body, also with translucent gene but showing a lot of pearl.

Starting to be able to see the head shape difference of the young. There are goldfish and koi shapes for the head / body that are beginning to become apparent to me. Going to move them into a tub in the garage so they can experience "winter" with cooling down into the 50's at night but heating during the day.

Those are cool as can be!

 

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So my Cichlid is not doing a display dance in his nest. That's actually his bathroom and his poop dance lol

 

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This guy is ready to breed.

 

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Loving the tancho (red mark on head) ones. Both have orange markings in the tails too. Really excited about these ones in particular.

There are yellows, bronze and maybe zero potential regular old goldfish. At least they're comet bodied.

Just noticed the heart shaped tancho marking. That one is getting its own tank and special food for growth and color. I don't mean flakes with additives either lol It and other ones showing good traits will get live and frozen foods.

 

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Gorgeous