Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:51 am
Post subject: Betta Splendens (Betta; Siamese Fighting Fish)
Just thought I'd share some of my my bettas with everyone. Some of these are the sellers' pics. Some of the bettas that I have are called "plakats." These are more closely related the the plakat bettas still used for fighting in Thailand. They have alot of attitude and are more colorful than their long finned relatives.
female red dragon (red with white mask) PK:
male red dragon PK:
blue mask black female PK:
Melano male PK (love this guy):
copper halfmoon (HM) female:
traditional PK male:
extended red double ray crown tail (CT) male:
blue mask female PK:
I have more of them, but no pics available.
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clunkster Topical Tropical Royalty
Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 1001 Location: the dark side of the tank ok then its dewsbury west yorkshire U.K.
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:54 am
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some of them fish are truly very colourfull and very pleasing to the eye, how many have you got ?
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8 males and 11 females. so, 19 all together. I had more, but I recently had to put them down, and one was sucked into the filter while I was trying to find the cover for it.
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clunkster Topical Tropical Royalty
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:00 pm
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sorry to hear about your losses i hate it when it happens so do you breed them or are you planning on breeding them ?
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I was planning to breed a few of them. I was planning to breed the red dragons together. I had actually put them in a spawn tank, but I made a few noob mistakes that resulted in a failed spawn. I also put the melano and the copper in another spawn tank, also failed. But, I am glad that spawn failed because I found out the breeding the traditional tail type (see how the red dragon male's and the melano male's tails are sort of spade shaped?) with a long fin (like the HM female) will result in veil tails (VTs), and I don't want that. So, I'll need to get a super black PK male for my copper female to get the black copper mask HMPK. (I'll get a pic.)
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clunkster Topical Tropical Royalty
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:09 pm
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ah the dreded noobie mistakes, hay we have all been there but as long as we learn from them then they are actually not that bad
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This isn't a very good example of what I am trying to breed, but it was the closest that I could find on aquabid. I guess no one has any "good ones" for sale. This one has an ugly head and bad form:
Here's a super black (just to show color example, this one also has a spade tail):
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clunkster Topical Tropical Royalty
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:29 pm
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to be honest i think you are just gonna have to keep looking untill you find the right fish/s that you want and then breed them to how you want them to look so you might have to wait a while, but if you get te right fish then it will be worth it
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mbovinet Site Admin
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:09 pm
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Wow, I didn't know there were so many of them
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clunkster Topical Tropical Royalty
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:13 pm
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oh there are a lot more than most people realise, like differant colours and tail shapes
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