Book

[MissD]

Has anyone else read it/own it? It's by Barron's and it's simply titled 'Bettas' and has a gorgeous red flaring male on the front. I bought it in Zellers, surprise, surprise, and it's actually a fairly good read both for beginners and, well...anyone really. It's got everything you need to know in it about caring, handling, behaviour, spawning, etc. and it's got coloured photos in it and everything. I was quite impressed. Mine cost $10.99CAN, so I didn't think that was bad at all.

I would recommend you pick it up if you see it...it goes into detail about all the different Betta strands. Quite interesting.

 

[D Chia]

It's my favourite. Contains interesting information; like the following paragraph on page 15, under "Sex Determination in Bettas".

"There are no unequal chromosomes in bettas that might be sex chromosomes. However bettas seem to follow the XX, XY model since they normally produce 50 percent of each sex. Bettas can produce surprises. If young males are bred with old females, the resulting offspring are mostly males. If the fry are held at abnormal conditions during the first 6 weeks, an overwhelming percentage of males is again produced. And if females are partially ovariectomized (most of the ovaries cut away), they transform into fully functional males (Lucas, 1983)."

Dr Goldstein's Bettas: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual covers the selection of bettas, their housing, feeding, breeding, genetics, as well as the prevention, identification and treatment of common betta diseases.

It's a great source of in-depth information about bettas.

Edit: You've made a good choice.

 

[wuvmybetta]

Now you've made me want it. I always look when I'm in book stores,but I never find anything good. We have a massive library and it only has one betta book in the kids section

If young males are bred with old females, the resulting offspring are mostly males. If the fry are held at abnormal conditions during the first 6 weeks, an overwhelming percentage of males is again produced. And if females are partially ovariectomized (most of the ovaries cut away), they transform into fully functional males

awesome

 

[MissD]

I love it...didn't expect to find something so thorough at a place like Zellers, to tell the truth. I'm sure any decent book store would have it, as it seems to be a fairly well known publisher.

 

[D Chia]

Now you've made me want it.

I started an opinion poll on "The Most Popular Book on Bettas & Labyrinth Fish" at my betta club in October 2004.

From the results (correct as at March 3rd, 2005), Dr Goldstein's Bettas: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual is the winner.

Hope this will make you want it even more.

 

[bkk_group]

when i first started breeding i didn't visit forums like this one to get my information believe it or not, (didn't even think to look at the time), no, i used that book for all my questions. because of that book our first ever time spawning we had success, can't give it higher marks than that. i like it particularily because the author used thai breeders as consultants for much of the book, bonus, it mentioned the (unknown to me at the time) website plakatthai.com.