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Meet Indy, my new bud. My other 3.5 year old betta just died, and i needed a new one. i started looking at the bettas and i couldn't resist him :wub: :wub: ! Could someone identify fin type? they sold him to me as a regular male, but im not sure. What do you thiink of him?
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Thanks! Im in love with his color! (its not a trick of the camera he really is that color). so he's a veiltail... i thought he was a young crowntail cause of his upper fin. i guess not :blush:
 
Lovely colour VT male. A CT develops the filaments on the fins basically as soon as the fins develop. I have never actually seen a VTCT, most of them have delta or even HM shaped tails with long extensions on the rays. There are VT combtails though - basically the same as CT just the filaments are a lot shorter. Yours might be a combtail. it's quite common for bad conditions in the pet store to cause the extensions on the fin rays to rot off but as soon as the betta is moved to a tank with clean water and good food they start to grow back.
 
so he may be a combtail? ive never heard of that! i thought he was a young crowntail cause of his top fin. his other fins seem to start to become jagged like a crowntail.
 
lilfishie said:
i'd say he's a VT heres a pic of my old combtail to compare
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his fins are starting to separate like your combtail in the pic. ok, now i ve got that straightened out. i noticed he is exceedingly curious about this alarm clock next to his tank. he watches the time and then when the time changes, he'll swim back shaking his head like what just happened, that was a six a minute ago! hes settled in fine. he loves his food, phew! one day i give him all pellets, next daypellets and a bloodworm, next day a surprise of all bloodworms. is that a good diet. (pellets are hikari betta bio gold)
 
maybe he can see his reflection in it causeing him to think its another male and trying to out stare him, my two used to try out stare eachother all the time, then go mad flaring
 
That's a standard VT. I'm sure of it.

Love the steel blue color :)

That actually is not a good diet. The hikari pellets are excellent. However, the bloodworms should be reserved for a treat once a week. You don't want to overfeed the bloodworms.

Also, are you feeding frozen bloodworms or freezedried? If freezedried... it is not very nutritious and seems more often than not to cause constipation problems.
 
no tey are freeze dried, but i am going to give him FROZEN brine shrimp as a treat this weekend. ok, so ill just give it to him on the weekend. i just wanted to do that diet because my last betta got sick of those pellets and refused to eat till i gav ehim a bloodworm.
 
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