My "rainbow" Bettas, Pictures & Video!

[Thaifighter]

Hi, again!

I just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Here's my latest pictures showing my 6 month old male multicolour bettas!

Here's the movie!
A warning though, this video might not be suitable for sensitive people!
Although I promise non of the fish involved sustained any serious wounds!
I only wanted to show the natural behaviour of two Betta males during a territorial fight!
I don't wanna promote betta fighting so I ask you to please don't do this at home!
Regards

Thaifighter


[URL="http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tt3sWV4qh0"]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tt3sWV4qh0[/URL]

Merry Christmas!

Thaifighter

 

[halfmoonbetta]

Beautiful fish, very game, but why take the chance that they'll tear each other up!

 

[newfishy]

thaifighter actualy lives in an area where bettas are still raised for sport.


lovely bettas.

 

[halfmoonbetta]

I guess that explains it. Thats one of the biggest things I admire about bettas, there courage, heart, and fighting spirit. I'm not knocking it, I just couldn't do it. There to beautiful.

 

[Thaifighter]

I guess that explains it. Thats one of the biggest things I admire about bettas, there courage, heart, and fighting spirit. I'm not knocking it, I just couldn't do it. There to beautiful.

Hi!

Yes, I do live in Thailand 5 months a year and thais are notoric gamblers so breeding bettas for fighting and betting is a big "sport" there!
Gambling is illegal in Thailand though, so Betta Fighting mostly takes part in some ones backyard out of sight of the police!
I'm not at all promoting breeding bettas for fighting I want the fish to be kept as natural as possible!
I only did this movie to show their natural behaviour and I had a net handy during the whole fight to scoop them up if they went too far!
I also think they are too beautiful to have their fins torned, and I can assure you that none of the bettas had their fins teared during the fight
or I would have stopped it immediately, and they are both perfectly well today!
Besides I'm selling them in the next few days so I want them in their best conditions anyway!

Thaifighter

 

[MaddieJ]

Absolutely beautiful fish, well done you. I actually love watching two males display and 'fight' with each other. Of course, I'd never do it, nor do I like watching when they are allowed to rip each other apart. but seeing them as they are in the video is, I think, beautiful.

 

[loraxchick]

mine were not so "gentle". had two boys in a divided tank and one managed to get thru to the other and they tore each other apart! fine and healed up now, but they sure made a messsss of each other.

 

[Karplunk]

Yes, I do live in Thailand 5 months a year and thais are notoric gamblers so breeding bettas for fighting and betting is a big "sport" there!

it depend on which part in Thailand you live in though. I was born and grow up in Thailand but I never heard people do betta fighting as a big sport. (maybe because i live in the capital?(Bangkok) but I heard ppl do that stuff in the rural area.