Ghengis Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 Got this little girl at the the LHS today. According to Paul at Aquarium World Cairns, who bred her, she is from Full Moon lineage. All I know is, when I saw her, I had to have her! Even the GF fell in love at first sight! These pics were taken while she was still in her take home bag. I'll try to add a few "in tank" shot's...when I can get her to sit still! Hope you like :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpiasente Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 Ooo lovely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggle Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 She is a pretty. Good find!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divy Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 very nice! any plans for her? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghengis Posted June 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 Paul at the LFS asked me yesterday to take very good care of her, as he is interested in breeding from her in a few months.... Which begs the question, "Why sell her in the first place?". It's all good though, I'll just do my best to keep her fit and healthy and maybe see what I can get out of this spawning, when it happens. It'd be interesting to mate her with Ghengis, but he is a CT and I'm not too sure what happens when one crosses such different lines. (Clarification, anyone?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2jdaze Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 nice find :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomasellaby Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 It'd be interesting to mate her with Ghengis, but he is a CT and I'm not too sure what happens when one crosses such different lines. (Clarification, anyone?) I Believe that would turn out Combtails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettarazzi Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 Yeah you want to avoid that cross if you can. People worked very hard to develop halfmoons and crowntails. Crossing the two just negates all that work and ruins both lines. You would only do it if you have no choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpiasente Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 I like combtails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Posted June 8, 2008 Report Share Posted June 8, 2008 She's sure is beautiful !!! I can see why your GF feel instantly in love with her ! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghengis Posted June 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2008 Cheers everyone! I knew you'd all like her I have a question, though. I've had a few days of staring at this girl now, and I'm curious about her finnage. As I mentioned above, the bloke that bred her said that her father was some sort of moon tail. He said "Full Moon", but I don't know if that means HM or OHM or something else. Anyway, that much is irrelevant. I'm actually curious about the little "spikes" at the ends of each ray in her tail (have another look at the pics above). Do you think it possible she is, in fact, already a Combtail? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belle Posted June 8, 2008 Report Share Posted June 8, 2008 Im not sure that she is, my LFS run of the mill girls don't have that much structure.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara_01 Posted June 8, 2008 Report Share Posted June 8, 2008 I don't think that she's a combtail, sometimes regular bettas (non ct) have minor ray extensions, that's how the ct first developed, fish with the minor ray extensions were selectively bred to increase ray extensions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghengis Posted June 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 Nah, that's cool. I was just curious, is all. but cheers for clearing that up :whistling: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callatya Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 She's lovely the colour is just delicious! Agree, not combtail. :goodo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghengis Posted June 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2008 DISASTER!!! Woke this morning and walked to the tank, as I do every morning... No little white face there to greet me. I start to search all over the tank, up in her nest on top of the filter, in behind some plants she likes to hang out in...nothing! Took a couple steps back, and there she is, floundering on the tiles. So lucky I didn't step right on her as I neared the tank. She must have only just jumped as she was still very much alive. I scooped her back into the tank. She kinda swam, kinda sunk, so I found a large vase, scooped some tank water into it and extracted her from the tank again. She quickly recovered in the vase, a little fin clamping, but not too bad. She's now back in the main tank and seems to be swimming around fairly happily, although a little disoriented. She's even chasing the RedEye Tet's, which she never used to do. I've turned off the filter for a while, until she finds her feet (or fins?) again. She just took two halves of a pellet quite voraciously, also, so it's all fingers, toes and ears crossed here. I think she'll be OK. I'll put the filter back on in a while and see how that goes. Any further things I should watch for?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara_01 Posted June 29, 2008 Report Share Posted June 29, 2008 just keep an eye out for any signs of infection in case she tore any fins or anything, if you want to you can add some salt in case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bewarebrunette Posted January 8, 2009 Report Share Posted January 8, 2009 Did she survive? I have one of her sisters haha. She's a cheeky girl! He's got some nice bettas in there sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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