How Do Siamese Fighters Fight?

[napiman]

how do they fight?

 

[300hp+vr6]

southpaw?
some have been seen doing thai boxing too

 

[napiman]

cool thanx

how do they do it

 

[_cRaCkEr_]

They slap eachother with their tails and bite each other until the other one swims away.

 

[napiman]

thanx i was just wondering

 

[InaneCathode]

Uh, no. They don't swim away, and then one wins. They rip eachother to bloody pieces, the one left alive wins.

 

[liz2]

And even if they are old like my 2 are it dont make no difference they still go for it. They then end up tatty with mended tails but look very smug!

 

[_cRaCkEr_]

Uh, no. They don't swim away, and then one wins. They rip eachother to bloody pieces, the one left alive wins.

How can you say have you tried fighting them ?

 

[Amerce]

I'm not condoning it but not all fights are to the death, only those owners that don't care let their fish stay in there to the death, normally one will concede and try to bury itself in the corner of the tank and pretend to be an ostrich.

I've seen too many male betta tanks where the lf's don't keep an eye on the tanks, and they don't have lids so nidjit kids/adults think it is funny to drop a male into another males tank, by the time the shop owner is aware of the pair in the same tank either the male left trying to bury itself in the corner is so stressed that it dies, or the fins have fungused and the lf's can't be bothered treating it for fungus so just let it die

 

[stang1]

Apparently they don't always fight to the death. As Amerce said one usually gives up and sits at the bottom of the tank, basically giving up. The people who breed them to fight will then remove the fish and nurse them back to health. They will then use them to fight again. I'm no expert, read it in my Siamese fighter book!

 

[_cRaCkEr_]

Apparently they don't always fight to the death. As Amerce said one usually gives up and sits at the bottom of the tank, basically giving up. The people who breed them to fight will then remove the fish and nurse them back to health. They will then use them to fight again. I'm no expert, read it in my Siamese fighter book!

Yup Amerce is right not all bettas die during the fight but some yes in my own experience. The loser betta we don't breed them anymore as we retain the what we called winning line the loser betta will be cured and we throw them in the river.

Thank you.

 

[three-fingers]

When you say 'we', i take it you dont mean you do it .
I presume your just talking about betta breeders as a whole...so that stuff still goes on?

 

[starrynightxxi]

i had faulty dividers for a while and my bettas would jump or slip through cracks to fight one another on occasion so i can tell you that not all fights are to the death because every time i found them, one shredded fish was parading at the surface and another more shredded fish was sitting at the bottom waiting for me to come to it's rescue.

I know Cracker USED to, so he is speaking from experience, but I believe his bettas nowadays are the purely pet-fish type...
And yes, this stuff still goes on, but it isn't "betta breeders in general"

 

[_cRaCkEr_]

I still keep my fighters with me coz I can't give them up it took me years and years and yearssssssss to develope such .. but I don't fight them anymore.

 

[dogfood]

Training bettas for fights is actually pretty interesting from what I've read. There's even a technique where adding almond leaf extract to the water during the training allows the fishes scales to become hard and strong for protection.