What Kind Is My New Betta?

[PrairieSunflower]

I found him this afternoon at the LFS.
 
What kind is he?  He is still small, is he a crowntail?  His fins seems irregular but not and many long ends as in pictures of others online.
 

 

 

[bluesword23516]

I am not sure, it could be a crowntail. Some of his fin may not be as grown out as the other parts. He could have just had some previous fin damage. Or the other thing I can think of is maybe he has some weird genes. Like maybe his father was a crowntail but his mother was a veiltail. 

 

[CoryFever]

Looks like a delta tail with some fin damage to me

 

[PrairieSunflower]

I shall give him a few weeks and see how they grow and come back and ask again. 

 

[tunagirll]

I agree - looks like a delta that has fin damage

 

[Tongue_Flicker]

Looks like a delta tail with some fin damage to me

I agree - looks like a delta that has fin damage

I'm inclined to agree to this as well

 

[PrairieSunflower]

If he is a delta, then poor little babe chewed up so much!  I can't wait to see how his tail turns out.

 

[Shelster]

I hate it when fish stores don't have the correct set up for bettas.

Our local maidenhead aquatics has a fantastic betta set up, where they have their own small tank with filtration. Rather than being picked on in a tank with Gouramis/ mollies and other incompatible tank mates.

I'm sure it would be in the lfs interest to house them correctly, I really don't know what price they buy them in at, but surely they want to sell them at their best rather than totally fin nipped and dying

 

[PrairieSunflower]

There used to be another location nearby of the same shop and they sold the bettas and this one didn't.  The old shop had the right setup.  The shop left doesn't sell them that often and could make a bit of a better choice for housing them.. like they have a plants display with the odd fish as well as a couple of display tanks that are running with not that much swimming around.