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Betta Splendens, originally kept as fighting fish, have captured the fancy of fish lovers everywhere.

 

I was no exception…

 

My bettas are listed below along with their personally information and a few pictures.

 

Euphrates: turquoise/red

This was one of the first three.  Euphrates has always been healthy and beautiful, but a bit too aggressive.  He was the first to take an interest to building a nest, but also the first to give up.  Seems he’d rather get busy with the ladies than actually do his fatherly duties.  For this reason, along with the fact he’s a mix breed veil-tail, I have not used him for breeding purposes.

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Euphrates when I bought him.

 

Poseidon: red

Po was the second male I bought.  He’s solid red and sorta looks like a Dr. Seuse character with those long, skinny fins.  He is a mild-mannered old guy.  Doesn’t like to flare, and isn’t aggressive at all.

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Here’s Poseidon’s first picture.

 

Cyrano: pastel turquoise/red

Later on, I upgraded the original bettas to larger bowls and had three smaller bowls empty…so I got more bettas.  Cyrano is the most aggressive betta I have right now, and he looks pretty beat up anyway.  He’s closer to what you’d call a delta tail.  Note in the second picture the tail fans out evenly, but isn’t rounded (well, maybe a little, because he’s not in full flare). 

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Cyrano is the scrappiest betta I have.                   Here you can see his nice tail and pastel coloring.

Mugshot for Cyrano: One tough cookie!

 

King: pastel steel

Though he was not one of the first here, he certainly thinks he owns the place.  New bettas are made aware that he is the boss as he races around his bowl in full flare.

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King has the biggest and most delicate ego.

 

Gandalf: pastel turquoise/purple

Gandalf was from the second batch, but he’s an old man.  He’s very cool and easy.  Life doesn’t phase him at all (Note the yawn).

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Gandalf stays calm, even when Cyrano flares at him.    He’s cool.  Gives you that look like, “What?”

BARK! BARK!                                                    HOOK THIS!!!

 

Pescadonna: red/blue

One of the first bettas I bought.  She had a bad fight with fin rot, because she was a very messy fish and would often hide in the muck at the bottom.  By the time I had realized her water was getting dirty faster than the others, disease had set in.  Right now I’m treating her with MelaFix and have her in a five gallon with a filter so she won’t get so dirty.

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Pescadonna when she was in full health.

(She had a bad fight with fin rot, and she’s in rehab right now).

 

Neptune: blue/red

The only one I’ve purchased by himself, I got this guy just yesterday, because I happened to have an empty bowl.  He’s a beautiful fish and seems much happier her than in that crappy little cup at the store.  I can’t stand to see them dying in those cups.  When my guppies had babies, I allowed nature to take it’s course with the fry.  Now I only have three of the babies, and the aquarium isn’t overcrowded at all.  The problem with bettas is that people think they’re beautiful and want more, but they can’t be kept in the same bowl, so you’ve got to either let the weak ones die or buy more jars for them.

Neptune is the newest member of my betta family.  Though you can’t see it in the pictures, he has what is called a “poor doubletail”.  Double tails are special in the betta hobby, but some are only partial doubletails (meaning they have a two-lobed tail rather than two separate tails).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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