giant exchange meeting

yesterday was quite exciting for us. a bunch of us finally has time to meet and bring the biggest giants from our spawn. i was presenting my green mask with length of about 9cm (3.5" or 3.6") and red giant of 3.5". This is not so bad considering their young age and their parents were about that size (with exception of the red that was about 4.2"). I would expect them to further grow but I'm not sure if I can keep up with them. The amount of food they eat and the aggressiveness in the tank sometimes is a bit worrying to me.

others come with average of 3.3" to 3.7" and we were quite happy knowing our giants get to that length.....considering they are all just 4-5 months old.

That's all for males....for females, i showed case my 3" red female but this was beaten by a 3.2" blue female from NG. Somehow, he always managed to get the biggest ones. This blue is awesome, very nice bright colouration and vibrant. He's having the same problem as I am, having to beef up his males so they can spawn with the huge females :)

anyway, i've got a donation of green mask as well yesteday. i only had 1 pair left of the giant green, the rest went to our charity-sale, and from this 1 pair i failed to get them spawn. The male managed to kill the female :( .... anyway, now that I get a not-too-distant cousin of his on the tank, i can try it again. if this still fails, i just have to spawn him with my red (somewhat having a mood for multicolours these days)

i contributed back to the group half of my red giant spawn, the ones left behind after charity-sale. there are only about 10 males left there and 4 female, all of them the biggest of the spawns. i figured, i better keep some of them for stock, in case the current red breeder decided to kill his partner :)

oh, another thing....if all goes well, i've been promised to get very nice melano giant pair ;) i will have the chance to select a very best of the pair as i like :D :D