we have been so flat out, we barely had time to reply to all your messages/emails. Our sincere apologies.
Anyway, getting to the news.....it has been proven very challenging to transport small (2 weeks old) fry. AM just told us that more than 1/3 of his portion of the fry died by the time he got home :( And he was just living 10 mins away driving! We gather it could have been the bumps along the way, cause these fry couldn't take such shaking. He and us did consider that perhaps walk "slowly" with the container (tank) would help the survival but slow walk would easily take a good half hour...anyway, at least there are a good number of them survived, so that's the good news.
Tomorrow DZ will come and pick the rest of the fry (we split the tank into 2 takers). So hopefully she'll take the challenge on walking slowly with the container :) Though she lives further than AM, so she may not want to do that....hmmmm maybe she just has to drive very slowly, weekend isn't so bad for driving slower :)
Friday 25 July 2008
Thursday 24 July 2008
fish updates
Quick updates on things. We've been very busy these couple of days going back/forth to hospital (our dearest mom is hospitalized), so our apologies to any delays of getting back to some of you.
Anyway, 2 tanks of fry already had home since couple of days ago. Thanks to AK, JD, RM. They should be around good 300-400 of fry there, enjoy them guys....
1 tank left, about 150-200 fry, current interest came from DZ, AM, SG, EI, D?, and MT (sorry not replying to you guys yet on this). Unfortunately, about half of this fry went dead this morning. Council had turned off electricity for road work the day before for nearly half a day at night and we didn't realize this till we got back from hospital (been staying there for 2 days). The timing had never came so perfect.....when the temperature dropped closer to 5C at night! Anyway, we're checking them out now and will keep them temporarily at our place till Friday. Guys, chances we will be only able to contact you on the weekend for this (time permitting).
Another bad news, one of the shipments to LH went all dead cause of freezing temperature (and our mistake of not putting 2 or 3 heatpacks -- we were running out of them and forgot about it till last minute due to hectic before we rushed off mom). This shipment took 2 days (we think???) rather than 1 day that we expected....Lucky other shipments weren't affected.....
This won't happen again (not sure if LH was anywhere happy about this, but hopefully she can forgive us for giving her such bad experience). It never happened before, but things are doomed to happen at least once.
Timing has always prevented us to be able to ship fish through courier, particularly FW courier (plus they had been so irregular to get to us that there are times when we waited for 2 darn days to get the goods picked up, or how frequently the missed our shipments making a 1 day delivery becoming 2 or 3 days!). We found that it is alot simpler to send them through AP though it has been mentioned to us recently as "illegal" to send live fish with them (not quite sure about this, but we've been doing that couple of times and the guy at the counter was ok about it). Anyway, perhaps we need to be clear about this to you....if you help us buying our fish, then we find whatever ways to get our fish to you, which may involve getting them through AP or if you're lucky through FW (we never tried AAE but currently there wasn't much of the time available on our side to deal with this atm).
Anywya, we still have 2 large tanks of giant HMPK for those who are interested ($100 for lot of 20-25 fish). A couple smaller tanks here and there, not having time to clean them up yet, but they have some fish too.....We've got lots of heatpacks now (was wondering if we ever consume them all, but we'll deal with this later, same way we need to deal with left over FW coupons later)....This week will be very very busy for us, so we may not able to reply to you at all, but next week we should have a day or 2 available to send the fish.
Some people have been asking for pictures of the fish, again as we said, we can't really take pictures but we will try again to do that later on the weekend (time permitting!!!).
There are currently quite a number (20 pairs??) of very large HMPK that would be ashame to go to pet shop (hmmm....haven't contacted them, but they should be quite happy to get our fish.....). Anyway, they are about 2.5 inches (both males and females) for 3-4 months ones. The younger ones about 2-2.3 inches for 2.5-3 months.
Also, we just noticed that there are very nice long fin females, particularly yellow corn, platinum red, cambo red, and copper females. We didn't notice them before cause we thought they were one of the males (with shorter fins) and they're hiding on the last-row tanks (pretty dark tanks too). This was a surprised cause their size is quite large for 2 month old, so definitely ones of those breeder-quality ones. Oh well, they won't get used by us for a couple of months time, so for those of you out there who'd like to start breeding them, let us know and we'll send them as part of your purchase (but you may still have to grow them till they're 3 or 4 months old before breeding....remember, they are large in body but small mentally!)
Hope the above clear things for some of you who have contacted us (yes, we'll get through the emails soon...please be patience)
Anyway, 2 tanks of fry already had home since couple of days ago. Thanks to AK, JD, RM. They should be around good 300-400 of fry there, enjoy them guys....
1 tank left, about 150-200 fry, current interest came from DZ, AM, SG, EI, D?, and MT (sorry not replying to you guys yet on this). Unfortunately, about half of this fry went dead this morning. Council had turned off electricity for road work the day before for nearly half a day at night and we didn't realize this till we got back from hospital (been staying there for 2 days). The timing had never came so perfect.....when the temperature dropped closer to 5C at night! Anyway, we're checking them out now and will keep them temporarily at our place till Friday. Guys, chances we will be only able to contact you on the weekend for this (time permitting).
Another bad news, one of the shipments to LH went all dead cause of freezing temperature (and our mistake of not putting 2 or 3 heatpacks -- we were running out of them and forgot about it till last minute due to hectic before we rushed off mom). This shipment took 2 days (we think???) rather than 1 day that we expected....Lucky other shipments weren't affected.....
This won't happen again (not sure if LH was anywhere happy about this, but hopefully she can forgive us for giving her such bad experience). It never happened before, but things are doomed to happen at least once.
Timing has always prevented us to be able to ship fish through courier, particularly FW courier (plus they had been so irregular to get to us that there are times when we waited for 2 darn days to get the goods picked up, or how frequently the missed our shipments making a 1 day delivery becoming 2 or 3 days!). We found that it is alot simpler to send them through AP though it has been mentioned to us recently as "illegal" to send live fish with them (not quite sure about this, but we've been doing that couple of times and the guy at the counter was ok about it). Anyway, perhaps we need to be clear about this to you....if you help us buying our fish, then we find whatever ways to get our fish to you, which may involve getting them through AP or if you're lucky through FW (we never tried AAE but currently there wasn't much of the time available on our side to deal with this atm).
Anywya, we still have 2 large tanks of giant HMPK for those who are interested ($100 for lot of 20-25 fish). A couple smaller tanks here and there, not having time to clean them up yet, but they have some fish too.....We've got lots of heatpacks now (was wondering if we ever consume them all, but we'll deal with this later, same way we need to deal with left over FW coupons later)....This week will be very very busy for us, so we may not able to reply to you at all, but next week we should have a day or 2 available to send the fish.
Some people have been asking for pictures of the fish, again as we said, we can't really take pictures but we will try again to do that later on the weekend (time permitting!!!).
There are currently quite a number (20 pairs??) of very large HMPK that would be ashame to go to pet shop (hmmm....haven't contacted them, but they should be quite happy to get our fish.....). Anyway, they are about 2.5 inches (both males and females) for 3-4 months ones. The younger ones about 2-2.3 inches for 2.5-3 months.
Also, we just noticed that there are very nice long fin females, particularly yellow corn, platinum red, cambo red, and copper females. We didn't notice them before cause we thought they were one of the males (with shorter fins) and they're hiding on the last-row tanks (pretty dark tanks too). This was a surprised cause their size is quite large for 2 month old, so definitely ones of those breeder-quality ones. Oh well, they won't get used by us for a couple of months time, so for those of you out there who'd like to start breeding them, let us know and we'll send them as part of your purchase (but you may still have to grow them till they're 3 or 4 months old before breeding....remember, they are large in body but small mentally!)
Hope the above clear things for some of you who have contacted us (yes, we'll get through the emails soon...please be patience)
Friday 18 July 2008
passing of a giant betta
Last night, one of our largest giants passed away. The large 3.2 inches HMPK female...our own bred...She was so beautiful.....8 rays splitting....platinum red BF....
We had been having trouble in spawning this female for a long time and recently we simply gave up. It's not because the female was not interested to any males that we gave her, she's more than interested. It's just that none of the males is capable to tame her. Along the way, she managed to kill two of the most gorgeous males too :)
She's very aggressive and large. We tried her with our largest male (imported), but this failed too. the male was 3.3 inches long, no way to compare the male to the female.
Too bad her gill was infected badly (maybe spread from previous imported male -- he was infected initially) and despite the meds given to her, she just didn't last as long as we wanted her to be....
She died at age of 8-9 months. Making her the largest (and fastest growing) female we have ever had. We certainly are gonna miss her.....
This is the problem with giants, particularly females. Once their size gets too big, there is no male that can spawn them. The only ones that can spawn them would be long fin males, preferably long fin giants! But it's very rare to acquire good long fin giants. The ones available are typically 3-3.5 inches long, which is not even sufficient length to wrap these females (provided they're not beaten to death by the female first).
Her passing makes the number of bettas that we kept reduced to only 40. This is considerably easier to manage at the moment cause we have so many to start with. We still have to transfer about 200 of their siblings (and don't forget 3 tanks for fry!!!) to people out there who'd like to get their hands on the fish.....So people, if you'd like to buy good giants, just give us an email asap (read our previous post on costs etc).
We had been having trouble in spawning this female for a long time and recently we simply gave up. It's not because the female was not interested to any males that we gave her, she's more than interested. It's just that none of the males is capable to tame her. Along the way, she managed to kill two of the most gorgeous males too :)
She's very aggressive and large. We tried her with our largest male (imported), but this failed too. the male was 3.3 inches long, no way to compare the male to the female.
Too bad her gill was infected badly (maybe spread from previous imported male -- he was infected initially) and despite the meds given to her, she just didn't last as long as we wanted her to be....
She died at age of 8-9 months. Making her the largest (and fastest growing) female we have ever had. We certainly are gonna miss her.....
This is the problem with giants, particularly females. Once their size gets too big, there is no male that can spawn them. The only ones that can spawn them would be long fin males, preferably long fin giants! But it's very rare to acquire good long fin giants. The ones available are typically 3-3.5 inches long, which is not even sufficient length to wrap these females (provided they're not beaten to death by the female first).
Her passing makes the number of bettas that we kept reduced to only 40. This is considerably easier to manage at the moment cause we have so many to start with. We still have to transfer about 200 of their siblings (and don't forget 3 tanks for fry!!!) to people out there who'd like to get their hands on the fish.....So people, if you'd like to buy good giants, just give us an email asap (read our previous post on costs etc).
Wednesday 16 July 2008
any takers for small bettas?
We have 3 tanks of small bettas, age about 1 week to 3 weeks (some of them have parents still "doing" the job). We barely can take care of them at the moment though they don't need much apart from regular bbs feedings. All of them from giants (2 short fin HMPK lines, 1 long fin HM line).
If you're in sydney and can spare hands to raise them, you can have some or whole tanks. We only ask a couple of pairs of the fry when they are adult. Not sure how we can transport them though, cause some of them are still very tiny...but transporting the larger ones would be straight forward (hopefully). Shipping is a no-no for these guys, they're just too small, don't think they will survive the travel....
Contact us direct if you're interested.
If you're in sydney and can spare hands to raise them, you can have some or whole tanks. We only ask a couple of pairs of the fry when they are adult. Not sure how we can transport them though, cause some of them are still very tiny...but transporting the larger ones would be straight forward (hopefully). Shipping is a no-no for these guys, they're just too small, don't think they will survive the travel....
Contact us direct if you're interested.
remaining giant bettas sales + bonus
There are still some giant bettas available, for those interested. Also we have some original imports and other breeder-quality bettas that we don't use any more, we'll give bonus when you buy 1 or 2 lots of bettas. first come first served basis, till stock last.
basically, for each lot sold, we'll include 1 (and only 1) fish of the bonus. We choose randomly which one to be sent to you . they have different colours and qualities.... all in all, we have about 20 or so of these breeder-quality fish....Of course we always give you more fish than what you've ordered, but the bonus specifically mentioned here are the breeder-quality ones.
some info about the bonus:
The deal is:
Also let us know if you'd like to receive the "rejects" fish for free. These rejects fish are very good fish genetically but have damage fins due to living in community tanks (they're fighters, so we can't complain too much, can we?). No sale is required if you're interested for the reject fish (but you still have to pay shipping)
Oh, in case you're interested on what they look like, some pictures at http://s201.photobucket.com/albums/aa201/breedingsmybettas/
In case we forgot to mention, they're all giants, so they're expected to grow much larger (with exception perhaps the import fish, cause they're full adults by now)
Contact us at mybettas@gmail.com (apology in advanced if we reply late, too much things going on at the moment).
basically, for each lot sold, we'll include 1 (and only 1) fish of the bonus. We choose randomly which one to be sent to you . they have different colours and qualities.... all in all, we have about 20 or so of these breeder-quality fish....Of course we always give you more fish than what you've ordered, but the bonus specifically mentioned here are the breeder-quality ones.
some info about the bonus:
- import fish with size around 3 to 3.3 inches for male and 2.5 to 2.8 inches for female (all HMPK). age unknown.
- our local bred fish with size around 2.3 to 2.5 inches for HMPK or females and 3.5 to 4 inches for long fin HM. age 3 to 3.5 months
The deal is:
- you purchase fish (20-25 fish in each lot) for $100 per lot. age ranges from 3 to 4 months old. colour: variety of reds, intense yellow, metallics (green, copper, etc). All randoms sent to you.
- we'll include 1 or 2 of the bonus for you
- shipping preferred at $25 (if this is too much for you, we'll give more fish to compensate!)
Also let us know if you'd like to receive the "rejects" fish for free. These rejects fish are very good fish genetically but have damage fins due to living in community tanks (they're fighters, so we can't complain too much, can we?). No sale is required if you're interested for the reject fish (but you still have to pay shipping)
Oh, in case you're interested on what they look like, some pictures at http://s201.photobucket.com/albums/aa201/breedingsmybettas/
In case we forgot to mention, they're all giants, so they're expected to grow much larger (with exception perhaps the import fish, cause they're full adults by now)
Contact us at mybettas@gmail.com (apology in advanced if we reply late, too much things going on at the moment).
Wednesday 2 July 2008
branching in pectoral fin
been wanting to write this up, but kept forgetting about it...
anyway, having so many giants in our possession, we just realized that some giants are so huge that we can easily see the beauty of their pectoral fins. typically, pectoral fins are not clear whether they even have any branchings....well, now it's confirmed...they have branchings just as any other fins.
some of our large giants have clear branchings on their pectoral fins, we can even count the number of branchings....take a guess....some branches at 4 rays, 2 of our giants are branching at 8 rays and another one is branching at 16 rays.
it seems, pectoral fins branching follows caudal branchings. if you have 8 rays caudal, then chances you'll get 4 rays or 8 rays pectoral fins branching too. it's amazing to find this out, just to say how clearly visible they are, due to the sheer size of the giants
we wondered how many pectoral branching you can get on a 16 or 32 rays caudal branching? that would be interesting to find out...
anyway, having so many giants in our possession, we just realized that some giants are so huge that we can easily see the beauty of their pectoral fins. typically, pectoral fins are not clear whether they even have any branchings....well, now it's confirmed...they have branchings just as any other fins.
some of our large giants have clear branchings on their pectoral fins, we can even count the number of branchings....take a guess....some branches at 4 rays, 2 of our giants are branching at 8 rays and another one is branching at 16 rays.
it seems, pectoral fins branching follows caudal branchings. if you have 8 rays caudal, then chances you'll get 4 rays or 8 rays pectoral fins branching too. it's amazing to find this out, just to say how clearly visible they are, due to the sheer size of the giants
we wondered how many pectoral branching you can get on a 16 or 32 rays caudal branching? that would be interesting to find out...
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