Well my other fish are doing real good. The boys are starting to color up. My 11 week old fry boys are looking very nice. I believe one is a half black. I think maybe a lavender. His dorsal has a tiny hint of very light purpleish look to it and there is a rainbowish color above his gill fins. His brother/sparing partner is a really strange combination. He has black strips down his back from head to dorsal fin. Only 1 on each side. Then he has a black stipe on either side that begins at his tail and then runs up his body and ends in a big splotch right behind his gill fins. He also has a hint of orange above this stripe and his tail is a yellowy black with a hint of blue. His black stipes will change in intensity. This morning he was "fighting" with the half-black and was brilliantly colored up. Then he faded a bit. My third Big boy I think is about a week or 2 younger than the first 2. He has a yellow tail with black streaks and flecks in it as well as a yellow dorsal with the black. Just today I noticed he is developing black markings along his sides along with more yellow. I think he may be a cobra. I have an 11 week female with the same tail coloring. In total I think I have about 15 males. Most of them are 6 week old fry. My 3 full-grown ones are doing good except for the one with a bitten tail. I have seen the other 2 big ones cornering him so the fry can get in and start nipping. Nasty little beggers.

One more question... Can a ful-grown male impregnate a 6 week female? The males were in the female tank until the fry were 6 weeks. I know it wasn't their brothers as they didn't have the developed anal fin yet. Just wondering as my now 11 week girls have very big gravid spots. They are also almost as big as the 2 momma's. They are growing up.