hey. i was at petsmart today and was randomly walking around their fish section. Surprisingly, I saw some non-veiltail bettas. I looked at the label and saw: "CLOWNTAIL BETTAS...$7.99". I thought it might be a typo so I looked at another one (there were only about 6 of them)...It had the same label.
So, I was thinking of a way to describe it...then I saw Timur's post. They looked sort of like the one he bought. But, the fins were definitely VT-ish in overall shape. The crowns didn't extend too far from the fins, and the overall fin structure was rather horrible. It didn't look like either a crowntail or a combtail in my opinion. But, I've only seen some GREAT-quality examples of these two tail types, so that may skew my perception of it.
Anyways, I don't think I can get back there tomorrow to secretly snap a picture of it. I'm 99.99% certain there's no such thing as clowntail bettas. I think the store just came across some low quality farm-fished crowntails and decided to 'fun-up' the names a bit. Anyone else's thoughts?
-Ian
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okay. did some googling...found this from a yahoo group:
Clowntails - were BayFish term for combtails in the beginning... now
they are single ray CT's (and also still some Combtails in amongst
them).
I think BayFish is an australian fishstore maybe???
So, I was thinking of a way to describe it...then I saw Timur's post. They looked sort of like the one he bought. But, the fins were definitely VT-ish in overall shape. The crowns didn't extend too far from the fins, and the overall fin structure was rather horrible. It didn't look like either a crowntail or a combtail in my opinion. But, I've only seen some GREAT-quality examples of these two tail types, so that may skew my perception of it.
Anyways, I don't think I can get back there tomorrow to secretly snap a picture of it. I'm 99.99% certain there's no such thing as clowntail bettas. I think the store just came across some low quality farm-fished crowntails and decided to 'fun-up' the names a bit. Anyone else's thoughts?
-Ian
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okay. did some googling...found this from a yahoo group:
Clowntails - were BayFish term for combtails in the beginning... now
they are single ray CT's (and also still some Combtails in amongst
them).
I think BayFish is an australian fishstore maybe???
