OK...we're not encouraging things, but you must admit that this is amazing. For those out there who have ever spawned anything, you know what we meant. It takes diligent and a lot of generations to be able to develop this micro HMs. Most micro hm you've seen are just deformed fish, but no...this one is FULL normal functional fish. And what's more?? There are a number of them, so it's pretty certain that the gene has settled down.
OK, perhaps this is not really such a big deal, cause you can always try to cross your fish with the smallest bettas found, but having said this, it's still interesting that they've managed to get a full OHM with very nice form and ray splitting!!!
If you see the picture, they're no more different that your typical fancy OHM, colour-wise, they're the same too. The ones we saw were copper variant (copper red, copper gold, etc), so that's "new" colour, not your typical blues or reds.
Now, further to that, try to compare this micro HM to giant HM!! You would then be able to appreciate both of them a lot more ;)
On one side you have a fish that is barely 4cm. Next to it is another with the size of 10+cm. Talking about a full 3x size difference. A single wrap of the giant HM male will completely swallow the tiny micro HM male :)
That's david and goliath for you!! We'll see if we can post pictures later (pending approval), but that's sufficient for you to imagine for now :)
Enjoy.
Here's the snap of the image, with permission from seller...
Not surprising that they've got DT on the gene, otherwise they won't look as good ;)
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wow. they are nice. have you asked the breeder how he produced that small size? could be just a coincidence that the whole spawn is tiny and not reproducible.
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