charity sale

We're going to have another charity sale of our giant lines. The fish you're getting are all giant HMPK with age ranging from 2 - 3 months. Large and small :) Length ranges about 2-2.3 inches.

Their colour ranges from cambodian red, red loss, red gold (very limited), black/red/blue, black/red/green, melano, yellow, and green metallic (only 2??).

Note that these giants are solid King Giant Betta that can grow up to 4.5 inches (well, at least their parents were of that size). Mostly 4 or 8 rays split but there are mixtures of 2 rays here and there also. All very thick rays. Nip here and there are expected as they grow in community tank (with only selected few had the luxury of their own tanks). All nips will regrow with no problems.

Some sample pictures avail of the above, but don't expect us to take pictures of the exact fish (no time and place for picturing -- sorry).

First come first served basis.

Steps to participate:

1. send us email, telling which colour that you'd like, we'll confirm if stock still avail
2. go to any of your charity, donate directly to the value of what you think the fish are worth for (include $10 for the shipping cost here).
3. show us the proof of donation
4. send us the other half of shipping cost (i.e. $10)
   
5. we'll send you the fish agreed and we even cover the shipping charges (well...consider that we're donating half of the shipping charges to the donation in part of your money)
   

So, at the end, not only that you've donated all the money to charity, but we also have donated all the fish to you and we cover half of the shipping cost! So....please dig deep.

Also available are 2 males + 1 female (cambo red and platinum red cambo line) breeders. They are breeders, nip/tuck may be noticeable but otherwise they're perfect for breeding. Males are slightly OHMPK, 4 or 8 rays (didn't bother to do the counting these days). They are about 2.5+ inches (didn't bother to measure either), with very thick and wide body. Age about 4.5 months. These trio will be sent from AK in QLD to you (thanks AK!).

Condition of participation:

• we reserve the right not to send you fish if we consider that you haven't opened up your heart trully. for example, sending $11 ($10 shipping and $1 for fish) to charity and asking 20 fish is just not on.
• as guidance, each fish worth as much as you consider them to be, but at least ought to be more or less the price charged by your petshop (and they don't even supply giants!)
  

email mybettas at gmail dot com. TIA for those who open up their heart for this effort.

PS. only avail for Australians.

do you have gambling problem?

It just strikes me that breeding bettas are not much different from gambling :)

When you have gambling problems, it usually involves tendency where you keep loosing money and yet ignorant about it and still believed that the next bet going to win you back all the lost you've experience so far.

Well, most people who breed bettas in countries with 4 seasons know that you aint going to make money out of bettas hobby. It gets worst when you breed them!

For instance, we have been bettas for yongs now and have worked out some ways to cut our expenses but there aint a way for us to break even. We breed them and keep them like one of our own (child), hence we always make sure that they've got the "best" for everything. When it's cold, heater would be on. Food always life food (would you give your child crappy food?).

Keeping all those luxuries make a very expensive hobby. But there is more!! if you breed bettas, then it's only a matter of time before you'd like to cross your line out to improve it (otherwise you breed them just as 'normal' pets which you may not even care whatever quality that you get from your bettas). Now, that's the tricky part....there aint no one in AU can supply good/better bettas, so we have to import the "seed" from other countries. And importation aint cheap! Furthermore, this has to be done at least every so often. We at least cross out every 2 or 3 generations. This comes so quick, we pretty much has to rely on importing these guys every month or two.....

So, at the end, breeding bettas is no more different than gambling. Sure you've got the enjoyment of seeing them grow yada yada yada, but your pocket will dry very much faster too. This assumes you don't have any other problems with your current lines. What if all of a sudden your gorgeous male/female died and there wasn't another "good" replacement for it? there you go....import a new one! That's provided you can find a decent one that fits your breeding plans and should we say for "reasonable" price????

The folks in QLD or northern land are luckier. At least they dont have to worry about getting freezing cold for their bettas.

Selling last and best giant female

Sadly, I think we have to sell our best and last cambodian red giant female HMPK. We can't breed her as there are no spaces left.

Anyway, here is her detail:
length: 3 inches
spread: 175 degree
type: HMPK
colour: cambodian red
age: 5+ months (hatched early Nov)
branch: 4 (from 8 branches line)
special price: $200 ono
shipping: $25

Note that this female is best for breeder. She's 100% King Giant Betta and typically you can't get similar female from anywhere (most people will not sell you one).

Contact us on email if you're interested.

switching food: dropsy

Last 2 weeks, we ran out of black worms (supplier didn't get them) and we had no choice but to switch to frozen blood worms. Anyway, the juvies were quite puzzled to see the frozen worms not moving about, hence didn't take the food in the first feeding.

Now that they've gotten used for a whole 2 weeks with frozen worms, interesting things started to came about.

With fresh black worms, they always have huge full belly. With frozen, it never be the case. They only eat when necessary and then stop altogether, ignoring the food. Hence they never get full belly.

Well, that's not the problem. Moving onto day 4 of frozen worms, we started to notice that a few (four or so) of the juvies didn't want to eat...then they got dropsy.

Once they've got dropsy, that's it....no way to safe them if it's too late.

Food related dropsy sometimes quite easy to solve, just have to starve them a couple of days.

Anyway, the interesting part is to see switching to frozen food can cause dropsy. I think it has to do with bloating effect caused by frozen food.

Now that we've got life black worm stock, all is great. No more dropsy, all juvies had fat big belly, and they're a lot more active!

Selling giant juvies

Thanks for all the interest for our breeding stocks. However, due to space, we have no choice but to sell our giant juveniles as well. Some of their details:

type: HMPK or OHMPK.
colour: cambodian red, red loss, yellow, blue, and red/blue (while stock lasts)
age: 2 months
length: about 1.5-2 inches
price: AUD$50 per pair (random mix)
gift: a special gift is given for every order
shipping included.

They're still young and small, but guaranteed to be 100% giants. You should see their sizes grow double in 1-2 months time (provided large space and good food given).

Contact us at mybettas at gmail dot com if interested. Thanks.

Selling breeder stock

There are too many bettas at our place at the moment, so we have to sell the breeder stock to get more place (won't be able to spawn any more -- all tanks are full).

Currently on the line:
* green OHM giant pair
* red cambodian OHMPK giant pairs (3 pairs)
* young red cambodian HMPK giant pairs (10 pairs).

Male HMPK length between 2.6 (young) to 3 inches. Female HMPK length between 2.6 young to 2.8 inches. Green OHM giant is *not* PK line, not sure the length (need to measure it up)