Meet Narna!

This was just in at my lfs! I had to have him.
I no hes a crown and i have maybe... one tooo many but i couldnt resist!

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He's fab Andi, love the metallic green in him and his scales. Did you call him Narna 'cause he's yellow?! Genius!

hey thanks and yeah we did lol hes doing reali well in are comunity tank we love him to bits will be amazing to try to breed him!

If any1 has a yellow crown tail female that look like him i would be willing to buy!
Thanks

Great male there andi

Thanks alot

I do have a yellow DRCT female, called Clover. She's the mother of my current CT spawn and I have her in mind for another spawn with my iridescent gold male DDRCT. If I get any yellow females from this spawn I'll let you know ^^ Or I can stud Clover out to you if you get desperate LOL.

stud sounds good but if hes a first timer i wouldnt want him to damage her in anyway or even die
How old are the fry? and how much would they be?
Thanks by the way

The fry will be 4 weeks on Wednesday. Clover herself was about 3.5/4months old when she spawned so she's still a young'un. She's a Thai import though so got to be a bit careful with her as imports are usually a bit more delicate, although she's a tough little chick.

Not sure on prices yet, just hoping they all make it to three months LOL. Price will probably vary depending on colour, but nothing extortionate. If you look in the Breeding Diary section, the Spike and Clover diary is mine and you can see the parents. I think most fry are going to be marbled, although I do have some that are pale and I assume they'll be yellow like Clover :-)

aww that reali cool ill have to have a look ive managed to breed around 12 times now but around 9 times the dads eat all the eggs befor i could stop them and the others havnt made it pas 1 month but 1 and there was around... 15 or so but sadly one of my molly males jumped in and eat them all but 1.. hes still goin strong and hes 3 and a half months now and exstreemly small lol no idea what when rong with him but hes mine so i love him lol !

Aww that's such a shame Andi, it's so disappointing when things go wrong. But it's great you've got your boy to almost four months! what tail type and colour is he? My favs are crowntails, they look so badass ^^

i think hes a veil too small still to tell lol but hes got that look about him and hes a beautiful red

his mom n dad were like the first pair ive bred sice that ive been "trying" to breed crowns and halfmoons but sadly al my halfmoom seem to want to eat thier eggs!

I had the same problem, not just with the Halfmoons until I made up some oak leaf tea and added to their spawning water. It lowers the PH and adds tannins and minerals to the water and I've had a 80 to 90 percent success rate. Up from 10 or 15 percent. My tap water is 8.2 and the oak tea is 5.8 to 6.2 so I add it about 3 or 4 parts conditioned water to one part tea. You can do the same thing with IAL or a bottled black water treatment.

hey thanks chard ill have to try that then hopfuly that will stop the beggers from eating the eggs! lol would love to try to breed again jus my females jus arnt quite ready.
any1 know i reali good way of conditioning females?

plenty of live food.. isolated but let her see your male for 10mins a few times a day for 7-14 days. I find it easiest to keep the female in a tank beside the male who's conditioned in the breeding tank and a bit of card inbetween them for when you aren't trying to catch their interest.

ok then thanks for the help. that basicly what ive been doing jus wondered if any1 had any other helpful tips or anything that ive never thought of but thanks kel.
oh and you thinking of poping up the shop 2morrow?
just asking because i dont usualy work tuesdays but im going in for a few hours in the morning again, so i didnt want you going up there and im not in lol.