Really Rare Bettas?

[Lacuna]

i think ive found a rare beauty today. i bought him from walmart actually. he isnt exactly white and isnt exactly yellow. he is more of a light gold? very beautiful! he is a veil tail and every time i look at him im reminded of an angel(hence his name) its one of those colors you associate with heaven.

Pics please!

 

[cookiemonster]

There is a Betta which has been developed that has a spot/cap of different colour on its head. So the main body colour is say blue and the spot is black. This spot of colour varies in size, but is normally about 5mm diameter.

As mentioned, there are mutations which are harmless and do not affect the bettas health like colours and fin shape. These do not really cause any internal issues. Where as, Doubletails have shorter bodies. This shortening of the body has caused, as it has in other fish species, swim bladder problems. The swim bladder organ extends nearly to the tail, and in short bodied fish it is squashed. From the double tail, some people have gone on to create what is refered to as "short-bodied bettas". These SB's have kept the short body, whilst losing the doubletail. There are inherent problems with these fish regarding swim bladder issues, they do not live as long, and other problems include the lack of dorsal fin.

My own belief about breeders of such mutations like the short-bodied are that they are either oblivious to the problems or just dont care!

 

[Inchworm]

Hi keithp

In addition to the most frequently found betta splendens, there are about 70 different betta species found in the wild. Have you listened to the podcast where Coryologist interviews Mark Denaro, the past president of the IBC. Mr. Denaro is also the owner of Anubias Design and imports many of them. The link is here:

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/308000-coryolgists-interview-with-mark-denaro/

I hope you enjoy listening to it.

 

[Haych]

There is a Betta which has been developed that has a spot/cap of different colour on its head. So the main body colour is say blue and the spot is black. This spot of colour varies in size, but is normally about 5mm diameter.

As mentioned, there are mutations which are harmless and do not affect the bettas health like colours and fin shape. These do not really cause any internal issues. Where as, Doubletails have shorter bodies. This shortening of the body has caused, as it has in other fish species, swim bladder problems. The swim bladder organ extends nearly to the tail, and in short bodied fish it is squashed. From the double tail, some people have gone on to create what is refered to as "short-bodied bettas". These SB's have kept the short body, whilst losing the doubletail. There are inherent problems with these fish regarding swim bladder issues, they do not live as long, and other problems include the lack of dorsal fin.

My own belief about breeders of such mutations like the short-bodied are that they are either oblivious to the problems or just dont care!

thats what Flea has. she wobbled loads when swimming and doesnt have a tail, also seems stumpy.

 

[xem]

as far as rarity goes within betta splendens there arent many rare kinds as i suppose if you wanted a certain one you could prob buy them online, will always be out there somewhere. having said that i havent seen many the same colour as my guy - gold/orangey colour but they are still available online so not 'hard' to get hold of.

 

[theshadowinc]

as far as rarity goes within betta splendens there arent many rare kinds as i suppose if you wanted a certain one you could prob buy them online, will always be out there somewhere. having said that i havent seen many the same colour as my guy - gold/orangey colour but they are still available online so not 'hard' to get hold of.

There certainly are rare ones but it depends on how one looks at it, I have raised my one female turned out white body so albino with faint yellow fins, definitly hard to get with the ever so pleasing silver scales to top the colouring off. But there are many one of a kinds that could be classified as rare so depends on how you look at the question at hand!

I would say that anyting from a dragon line seems to be common when its red orange, as far as orange goes its a normal or common one to get expecially with the gold, but if you look up albino or white and yellow or white and gold they seem harder to get ahold of also the same with some different types of pastels. But they all are one of a kind I have only seen a select few who have had twins where 2 bettas look the same other than that I would say being rare would be 1 of a kind and basically they all are 1 of a kind and the rarity of something not being normal is 1 of a kind but not rare. Did I confuse you?

 

[xem]

yer that is a good point does depend on what 'rare' is defined by, if you look at it like that then there are many rare kinds through variation.

 

[keithp]

Twin bettas would be nice to have!

 

[theshadowinc]

Twin bettas would be nice to have!

They would be, definitly something that is rare, 1 of a kind and probably expensive! Look on youtube there is twins on youtube and I think not sure they are imbellis. Both males are identicle I think they where selling for 100 for the both of them not sure though and only overseas

 

[keithp]

Found 3 pictures of rare bettas.

Albino (love it!)
http/akvarijske-ribe.com/forum/userpix/1133_albino_spawn_oddball_betta_1.jpg

Triple tail! WOW!
http/canadianbettas.com/images/t7.jpg

Brown betta
http/thm-a01.yimg.com/image/81a6a6d252beb92a

 

[mr130gallon]

i love the triple tail betta and the albino.