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Leaving Father With Fry Method - Part II By: BettySplendens Submitted: 6/1/2004 'Demon', a young male from this spawn, owned by Coleen Timmons The end result of this experiment left us with 38 fry, some easily as large as their sire when they were removed for jarring. In a few instances, fry were sold on this site and taken directly from the paternity tank to be shipped to their new owners! As time went on, I noticed some of the fry developing into males and had to resist the urge to jar them at that point. I also sat on my hands while I observed a few games of 'nip tag' going on in there (which seemed to be precipitated by squabbles over food), but other than a few minor scraped knees typical of childhood, no damage was done. The male for his part usually wore an expression of long-suffering tolerance, but generally tried to ignore the fry once they got passed the 3 month mark, and if one of them darted under his nose he just circled around it with studied indifference. Nearing the 3.5 month mark, the youngsters looked like a pretty drab bunch of solid brown or cambodian fish. It wasn't until the males were jarred that they grew territorial and began flaring at their neighbors; that's when their dynamic color appeared. Many of the super deltas also stretched into full HMs after a week of flaring at the other young males. The females (and a few smaller males) were left in the paternity tank even as late as May 29th, but an unexpected surprise motivated me to call an end to the experiment and remove the remainder of the spawn. I noticed one large female becoming increasingly aggressive to her siblings and was at a loss as to why her behavior should suddenly change after months of peaceful co-existence. The answer became obvious when I checked in one morning and found her embracing with her father under his nest. As abhorrant as it seemed to me, it was perfectly natural to the young female that, upon reaching sexual maturity, she should spawn with the dominant male in her community, in this case her own sire. Her behavior then made sense, as she now saw her female siblings as competition for the male and sought to establish her right to mate with him. I removed everyone but the father at that point, and a few days later I had fry hanging in the very same nest (more or less) that their own mother had hung in just months earlier. Some of those fry are beginning to free-swim, and the male is still with them. And so the saga continues for this male, a 2nd time around!

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HEJSAN FROM SWEDEN EVERYONE! Everything in Sweden is going well, although I'm still busy learning the language and coping with a newborn, so it will be a bit before I'm as active as I'd like with the fish. This is a Facebook update! I have created a new BettySplendens Facebook page that will be used exclusively for betta-related networking. On the 16th of August I will be going through and deleting most of the people on my personal Facebook page who are not actual friends or family (many of you have become friends through the course of the hobby, and of course will not be deleted). If for any reason you wish to remain on my personal page, please let me know by emailing bettysplendens@yahoo.com, or FB email. Otherwise, go to the new BettySplendens Facebook page and click the 'like' button for more betta-related news and updates :).

Tack så mycket (that's ''Thank you very much'' in Svenskie-land ;))! ~Victoria~

Slight change of plans! I have decided that, instead of reinventing the wheel, I'm going to create a personal FB page and use the old one purely for betta stuff. So if you're on the original page (now called BettySplendens Bettas), please stay put! :P

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