Clown Tail Betta

[Synirr]

there is actually such thing as a clown tail,
its like a crown tail except the pointy tails are larger and wider

lol, still funny though

I honestly don't think it's supposed to be a tail type... I'd never seen it as a category in betta shows or anything like that. There are rose tails and balloon CTs, but not clown tails
I don't speak Thai so this is pure speculation, but in Japanese at least, the letter r sounds a lot like the letter l, so a lot of times the r's and l's get mixed up in translation -- maybe that's what's going on with the clown tails?

 

[guppygirl]

LOL!
Stupid fish store employees... Although they can be quite imaginative!!

 

[SPLiSH]

LOL!
Stupid fish store employees... Although they can be quite imaginative!!

Yes, you'd have to be imaginative to cook up the stories that some LFS's tell... 'Yes, common goldfish do wonderfully in a 3 gallon bowl.'....

 

[Ben]

clowntail betta, other common names; Star Betta

 

[SPLiSH]

Those bettas are beautiful! I want one....

 

[Nuttygal! :0)]

Wow! They're gorgeous! I want 2 more male bettas! I'm going to see if I can order some from somewhere!

 

[Katchan]

Hey dwarf do you have a better quality version of that pic? no offense but from somebody studying digital graphics at QUT that looks a little doctered.

Katchan

 

[Synirr]

I did a Goggle search for clowntails and came up with this:

#4: Author: Guest, Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 8:25 pm
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Anything CT from Bayfish is called a clowntail. The shops just blindly follow. Bay also call melano "merano" which sounds like a sheep to me!
Love the little cambo CT - sweet colour!
Cheers, J

Quoted from here.

Judging by the very small number of results I got no matter how I searched for "clowntail bettas" or "clown tail bettas," the fact that practically 100% of the pictures I found look like normal crowntails, and considering that Bayfish also call melano "merano," I can almost assure you that this clowntail business is a mistake in translation that has been perpetuated by people who simply don't know any better. Like I said, in Japanese and a lot of other similar languages, the letters l and r sound very, very similar and are easy to confuse.