I got a new fishie...

Alright, I promise, I'll stop after this one. I think that's 9 now. I really believe I will start breeding when I get to FL. It's just the next step for me.

Well, here he is. I think I'll call him Gunther. I've never seen one like this before. He's like a light peach/orange with darker fins, and a little irredescent (sp)wash. He also has these enormous pectoral fins! They're huge and not rounded like a normal betta, but more like a butterfly koi. They are almost an inch long. Kind of wierd, but he flared so pretty at me when I was picking up some free Salvinia minima at my favorite LFS. They give me the floating fern for free over there, since they consider the floating stuff garbage and toss it anyway. I put it in my betta bowls, and really like it a lot. He seems to swim well, but I wouldn't put this guy in a filtered tank, the fins are just too cumbersome (sp). His eyes are turquoise blue, so wierd with the orange coloring. A few rays on the top of his dorsal are a metallic lavender. He has one of those rays in his caudal fin, and his anal and ventral fins seemed edged with that color as well, but they also look clear from certain angles as well. Any clue as to what this little guy is? I know he's a VT, but any suggestions about his coloring? The following pics do not do justice. I know he's not red.







Let me know what you think?

Very cool...Its sweet...

he's smexy!!! his coloring is really stunning, so are his eyes. I would just call him a multi-color ~ I thought maybe Cambo from the first pic, but looking closer, definitely not. He's gorgey, anyway! ~_~

splashluff said:

he's smexy!!!

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Smexy, that's a new one! I'll add that one to my vocabulary list. Gunther thanks you.

He's adjusting quite nicely.

Now totally off topic, Siegmund ate another bug today. An ant. That makes three so far. He really likes them. To each his own.

He is very pretty. I saw a couple similar to him when I went to*cough*Pet Smart*cough* yesterday to get a cypress stump decoration for my new 20 gallon.

Why do you say definitely not cambodian? Iwould say he is almost a classic example of cambodian. Usually they have black eyes, but not always.

Beautiful fish

Is he pinkish orange? Mine is. With a few red splotches.

Camboidans have white bodiees and red fins...from my understanding. I think they can also be butterfly's and have other color fins as well...but the fins have to be solid or have a butterfly pattern only..no marbling.

http/www.bettatalk.com/red_cambodian.htm

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Cambodian bettas are basically bettas with one body color and another fin color
http/www.starpoint.net/~dave/betfaq.html

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Traditional Cambodian

The Cambodian Betta is a Betta with a flesh coloured body, either Red fins, or fins of AOC (any other colour). this Strain or something like it is often found in pet stores across the country.

Clear/Red-White

This type of Butterfly is commonly called the Cambodian Butterfly.
Clear/Red-White Butterflies are Bettas with a "Flesh" coloured body (like Cambodians), with a Red inner band, and a White outer band. the Body colour to the inner band colours are much like a Bicolour.

http/members.fortunecity.com/markang/bettatypes.htm

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No, I'm in agreement. I appreciate the comment, but Gunther's coloring is a bit too subtle for a cambodian classification, though in the first pic, he looks cambodian. He is orange and his fins are only a deeper orange. Oh, and the lavender was my eyes playing a trick on me. The end of those rays are really transparent orange and because he's got that irredescent wash, the lights play tricks He has no marbling as far as I can see. If there was a category called "dilute Cambodian" maybe. His coolest feature by far are those amazing pectorals! I have never, ever seen a betta with pectorals like that. Think the goldfish in Fantasia, they're that long! I wish he would still be able to breed when I return to FL, I'd love to see if those pectorals would breed true. I wonder what made them shaped like that? He's probably a freaky mutant betta.

He's very pretty...I love his eyes!