New bettas

I bought 2 bettas from Kel and they arrived today...the male not yet named but the female has been named Africa she's a copper hm and the male is a black hm with a green sheen.

Africa
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Black male
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They are all gorgeous Nataliey

Thank you, i like you betta from Kel too

wow there lovely, you must have loooooads of bettas now nataliey

damo2904 wrote:wow there lovely, you must have loooooads of bettas now nataliey

Yes you could say that Damo, but iv still got 2 divided tanks empty!! Im looking for a solid black halfmoon female now.

Ive got a male solid black HM, i've heard the solid black female HM's are not fertile...not sure if true or i may be thinking of something else. but then you dont need to spawn them do you, there just pretty.

keep a bit of space.. i'll try and find you a black girl in the next few weeks hun

kel wrote:keep a bit of space.. i'll try and find you a black girl in the next few weeks hun

Okay thanks Kel im not buying anything else until i find a black hm female!

The black male has built a bubble nest already!!

hey thats great bae, i'll get on to find a female for him over the weekend if not before... fingers crossed i can get you one in the next two weeks

If not, breed him with the copper girl! she'll work well with him even if you get very few deep black you'll get great fry colours regardless hun

black, blk lace, blk orchid, poss black devil, green, metallic green, blues, coppers and even chances of white!

you may get soe red washes in fry but minimal.

His true finnage without the damage repair was 100% show smooth so its more colour variation and overall tail spread you need to worry about!

I love him. Come to meeee.... lovely black betta.... you're so lucky Nat

They are just great looking Nataliey!

ooooooo he's a beauty

Even tho his tail isnt perfect it gives him a unique frilly look as he's supposed to look like that, lol!

I was thinking of trying the copper girl with him as she is showing a lot of interest in him last night as they can see each other...bubble nest looks good but will need to set up a breeding tank.

Great new additions nataliey, they are gorgeous

hun it just occoured to me you do know 2 blacks wont produce young dont you?
youll need a HM dark blue or something i remember having this discussion with the LFS with the woman there she used to breed and told me that little of nugget of info

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ok turns out black females are infertile


hang on saying that you just had your black CT spawn im cinfused

only if the female is melano... other blacks are fertile

has gone and read genetics more head hurts i always thought there was one type of black betta, well there was 4-5 years ago when i first started breeding

Jims site info is 4-5 years out of date.. we now have superblack which actually looks darker than melano.. (like a molly black). then you have the lace and orchids which are all fertile (from the multicolour blackgeno backgrounds).

Its only melano females that can't be bred.

Don't forget Marble Black and Double Black. I'm supposed to get Double Black from my Black Orchid X Copper spawn. So far at 5 weeks they look half and half dark and really dark. Maybe Black and the lighter ones Copper? Won't know for sure until they grow more and color up.

Oh my lovely bettas Nat! l love the male, the colours are so intense!

super balck and double black are the same thing (i think) lol

just two dff terms for the same intense black

aren't genetics and colours complicated, especially when the names are for individual spawn lines lol

will be good to see how your's progress chard.. I know copper is often produced in the black orchid lines but haven't delved into it much myself personally

I just stumbled onto it. I couldn't get my Black Devil CT female to breed with my Black Orchid CT male so I spawned her with one of my Copper CT males. Then I bred a female from that spawn to my Black Orchid male. Awhile after that spawn I read that article in bettysplendens on Black Orchid X Copper. I was just hoping to get some Black Orchids in a couple generations and just happened to be running blind in the right direction. Luck? Intuition? I don't know what to call it, I'm just excited with all these new colors and fins that weren't around when I was a teenager and I want them ALLLLL!!