fuzzy_dragonfly Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Meet Goliath. I've been petshop hopping lately and found 2 LFS that stock giants. Concidering they were selling for an avarage of $100 a few years back I recon I got at steal at $15 from strictly aquariums Campbelltown. Auburn aquariums also has some deltas at the moment, not great but deltas nevertheless. I felt terrible for loosing poor Captian my multicolour CT from the Sydney LFS crawl in the summer heat, my fault, I left the light on and the tank overheated. Typically a crappy shot but gives you an idea anyway: Also does anyone know what colour this swordtail is? jet black, white nose and green irridecence. I got 4 one underdeveloped male and 3 females. They're the most unusual I've seen apart from the koi swordtails I once had, they were cool too. Concidering the youngest fish in my tank was 2 years old I thought it was time I added some new stock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Hi Klara, is there a photo of Goliath that shows how big he is to scale? I like his colour and dorsal. What colour deltas do Auburn have in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeachSlices Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 theres 4 i think blue, red and 2 others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Thanks Simon :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 That looks like it could be from the same place in Thailand as some of the Giant plakats i was importing from. Also that swordtail is an ordinary Black sword, most likely from Malaysia, they do breed some very nice blacks :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callatya Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 That sword is beautiful! I feel a shopping trip coming on... Goliath is pretty lovely also! What a flare! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzy_dragonfly Posted February 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 If I can get him to hold still near a ruler I'll post it but no sucess so far. It's a shame I don't have another betta for comparison, that's where you can really see the difference. He's about 1.5 times the size of a regular plakat his age in length and a lot more solid. I should have bought the cambodian DTPK to show the difference, I was going to but had second thoughts. Very round body compared to a more slender regular plakat. I'm not breeding him, he's just my pet . I don't think I'd find a suitable female for him anyway. Aren't those swordtails the coolest . They had regular oranges but their colour is so intense it makes them look a bit fake. Pretty but they'd look out of place in my aquarium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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