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Here are pics of some of my imported fish that arrived yesterday. All from Suporn at Bluebetta.com

Gold Dragon HM pair, very similar to Kitz, probably from the same spawn. The male was too busy building a bubble nest to pose for photos. When I tried uncarding him, he flared so fast and furiously that all I could get was a blur.

Platinum HM female. She was a gift. Thank you Suporn. I'm going to mate her with my Opaque White male.

I'm still trying to get decent pics of a green full mask female and a steel blue HM male.

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That platinum female is really nice; is her caudal as good as it looks in her reflection?

Yep. The caudal is pretty good. She was flaring seconds before that shot. No, she's not a male. She's got extremely prominent ovaries.

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The platinum female jumped out of the tank through the corner hole in the lid. I'm so annoyed at myself. I looked at that hole and thought that since there was an airline and a heater cord going through, that would block it off sufficiently. Clearly not! It's such a stupid way to lose a fish. :wub:

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....sorry abt this I should have tell you earlier

No. I'm an idiot. It's not as if this hasn't happened to me before. Well, I suppose it hasn't happened recently. I'd spent every available minute the entire weekend sorting out the fishroom. It was 1am, I was tired. And although the thought crossed my mind I just didn't look carefully enough at the lid. Kitz, this wasn't one of the new tanks, it was one of my old, self made ones. I was trying it out with one of those small box sponge filters and raised the water level for the filter. Now in the horrific light of day I can see that the water level didn't need to be quite that high. And that the lid can sit in a funny making a big gap in the corner. I feel extremely stupid. Thanks all for listening to me whining about something that was entirely my own fault.

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not at all! My very first imported female did exactly the same thing. I totally sympathise. 20:20 hindsight is a remarkable thing.

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yup - went to show someone a fish yesterday and....nice bubble nest - no fish. Found him and was ok - but doh!! *smacks head* you just never know!

Sorry to hear.

Cheers, J

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Thanks all. You guys are the only people I know who understand how I feel about this. And genuinely sympathise. Not, "Oh you lost a fish. Pity about that. What's for dinner?"

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I have already said sorry in another thread, but looking at that female again you must feel terrible :(

She is such a beautiful girl and it must be gut wrenching to lose her... especially since you just got her :(

She really was a gift wasn't she :)

all the best :) and I hope your other spawns are successful and the rest of the new family settle in all right :)

Lisa

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How are the others coming along Michael?

The others are doing ok. They're taking dry food... sort of. I might see how they like frozen bloodworms later. The green/turquoise female was doing something kinda strange tonight. I put Betta Bio-Gold in her tank. She would go for the pellets but not actually open her mouth wide enough to take them in. I tried NLS which is smaller but she didn't even try with them. Need to watch her carefully.

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Oh sugar! It always feel like a punch in the stomach for me. I am sorry you lost the fish, she was nice. Even if she wasn't I hate loosing fish to stiations I could have prevented!

My latest one involved this beautiful male golden gardneri (killifish ofcourse :) ) that has matured and I was getting ready to use him for breeding. A mate came over (non killifish keeper) to look at my tanks and commented on this male out of hundreds of fish in 50 odd tanks, on how nice it looks. The next day I walk in the fish room and it is no longer in the tank. It jumped over 20 centimeters and through a narrowest of gaps :)

Chin up and go breed some more fish :)

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Thanks Serkan. One of the thoughts that entered my head as I picked up her leathery body was how I could have let this happen having been a killie keeper. I used to stuff filter wool in the corners of the killie tanks. I guess you forget a lot in 10 years. So that's the answer. No more long breaks from fishkeeping. Short holidays yes. But from now till the day I die there shall be fish in the fishroom. What? Too Operatic?

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