Are halfmoon females a necessity for strong line?

[Foo Hong]

females. I think the breeder girl shld be as nice as possible........kekeke....

since most of the time we wld normally not be successful in persuading breeders to sell us their phenols, we have to make do with whatever we have on hand. however, from my own obesrvations, u do not necessarily need a female if the following are in place[u cld have diff epxeriences]

1. the breeding partner male must be as perfect a HM as possible.
2. the female is preferably from a same line as the male and the line CONSISTENTLY THROWS HM in each spawn. ie sibling female.
3. She bears 1to4 ray splitting on the caudal, or better.
4. she has a minimum of 150 spread in the caudal base, and / or straight egddges thaat are at least 120 spread in caudal

[Foo Hong]

Ah ha! a few chaps bidding on one on aquabid at moment, last at USD100 kekekeke. would u bid for that fish, at this price or another?

[Samuel Phan]

The fish really look superb.

Link here: http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auct...tasd&1048007405

8 rays at the end, nice dorsal, nice anal and definitely nice caudal.

But at $100 ... I think I will work on my runt fishes from the HM X SD spawns ...
I might probably still hit the jackpot in creating a HM line.

[Myron Tay]

Concur with Foo Hong's observation. My red spawn (with some HMs) did not have a HM mother.

[Samuel Phan]

Agree ... could see the light tinge on the anal protion that connects to the body.

But still it is one of the few best females I have seens so far.

And the best is she does not look like a typical runt fish at all to have that kind of finnage.

quote:Originally posted by Foo Hong

This girl will pass quite a bit of redwash into yr line.

quote:Originally posted by Samuel Phan

The fish really look superb.

Link here: http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auct...tasd&1048007405

8 rays at the end, nice dorsal, nice anal and definitely nice caudal.

But at $100 ... I think I will work on my runt fishes from the HM X SD spawns ...
I might probably still hit the jackpot in creating a HM line.

[Foo Hong]

but I dont see any signs of egg sac at all from the pic!

[Myron Tay]

For everyone's benefit, here's the fish they are all commenting about:
http://www.bettaclub.org.sg/forum/uploaded/Myron Tay/200453145549_HM Female.jpg

[Samuel Phan]

Thanks Myron ... have to agree that the fish looks great despite the slight/hidden/underlying red.

[Phil]

It has always been an ugly choice, finnage or colour![dr]

quote:Originally posted by Samuel Phan

Thanks Myron ... have to agree that the fish looks great despite the slight/hidden/underlying red.

[Samuel Phan]

Hehehe ... yep yep yep ... can never have the best of both world. *Sigh*

[Myron Tay]

Maybe Markus can help us on this.

Also, what do we look for in the female (which is more often than not, the more difficult of the two partners to choose since the HM features and colour are less obvious in the shorter-finned, paler females)?

[Myron Tay]

One aspect that I have not really paid much attention to: is there proportion in the fins of female bettas? I note that they rarely are proportionate (anal fin is usually too long). Anyone has a female betta with a nice proportion (finnage-wise)?

[Myron Tay]

One aspect that I have not really paid much attention to: is there proportion in the fins of female bettas? I note that they rarely are proportionate (anal fin is usually too long). Anyone has a female betta with a nice proportion (finnage-wise)?

[Chua Yong Fook]

Here are two females from my cambodian red line. This one with 180 degree spread:
http://www.bettaclub.org.sg/forum/uploaded/Myron Tay/2004714172056_Cambodian Red Female.jpg

The sibling sister without HM caudal:
http://www.betta4u.com/images/Cambodian_STF_3.jpg.

rgds,
Bobby