My Betta Collection, Wild Species and Selective Bred Strains

[Xander505]

Just picked up my giant Borneo mouth brooding bettas. Frustrating because 2 of my males are missing. I contacted the Canadian transhipper and he said he placed my missing male unimaculata into a different shipment box and forgot to take it out. So now I got to wait until Thursday until he comes back the GTA so I can pick my betta up. As for my missing new male channoides, I'm unsure what happend to him, as my transhipper says he only has one of my bettas with him. Gotta email the breeder in Jakarta to see if a problem occurred on his end. Any how enjoy guys, as you can see these bettas are currently 3" in length, they grow up to 5" though. I'll post better pics of them once I've accimilated them into their community tank.

1 B.patoti pair (orange varient), 1 B.pallifina pair, and 1 female B.unimaculata

2 pics of my female B.patoti, the most active of the group. Guess she handled the shipping process well. My other specimens are a bit stressed and still sluggish.

Here's a quick pic I took of their tank, apologize blurry pic as the lighting in the room wasn't lit to well. You can see my orange patoti pair in the center of the tank and my male pallifina resting bottom left corner.

 

[Xander505]

Enjoy guys, took these the morning after I received my pairs, as you can see they're still stressed out from the 2 day cross sea shipping. I will add updated pics, once their colours come back and they're adjusted. Currently 3" in length, can't wait until these guys reach their max size of 5".

Female Betta. pallifina gold. varient.

Male Betta. pallifina green. varient.

Male green pallifina with female Betta. patoti.

Female patoti orange. varient

 

[antinous]

Nice Betta! My friend used to own a few and I would just sit down and watch them from time to time haha

 

[Xander505]

Updated pics of my completed channoides breeding group of 4.

New male and female

New male chilling with my new female (right) and dominant female (left).

Dominant male being lead away from new male, by my new female.

Dominant female sizing up the new girl. New female top, dominant female on the bottom.

 

[Xander505]

New pickups, all HMPKs/OHMPKs, 2 males 1 female

Super black halfmoon plakat female (spoon head)

Super black over halfmoon plakat male #1 (spoon head)

Super black over halfmoon plakat male #2

 

[Xander505]

Here's another over halfmoon plakat I won off Aquabid, a black devil dragon scale. Doesn't have the nicest rays or even fin form, but the dragon scales on it are pretty even compared to others I've seen. Looking forward to breeding it with the super black female I previously posted, that should produce a good batch of fry and correct the rays and finniage.

 

[beetleman]

wow! the blacks are my favorites,i keep many aswell,but not the obscure sp. you have,i do have black crowntails,black plakats(not the giants,pearlwhites.blues,reds,greens,i like the solid color bettas. your collection is very impressive,thanks for sharing

 

[ShredderEmp]

I've been paying attention to this thread since the beginning and never felt a need to comment until now and wow is that one cool looking fish. I mean I've always loved fish, but that makes the (long) list. I had a betta I got from Petco for 2 years, but didn't ever really know how to care for it since I was only five. Now that I think about it, no filter, chlorine, and cold temperatures probably did him in.

 

[Xander505]

Here's a 3 month old red copper hmpk I won off aquabid, this is the last male I'll be purchasing this month. In 2 weeks I'll be trying to acquire some red dragon/black dragon/red copper females.
For now I'll breed this male with my platinum black red dragon halfmoon plakat female. The batch of fry produced should retain the same colouration, but will have more even dragon scale coverage. It should also give the fry more even and sharper finniage.

 

[jthorntonwillis]

RE; bettas

MAN!! not into fish,but those are almost enough to convert me!! BEAUTIFUL!!:clap:

 

[Xander505]

It's betta fever lol, I've started it on quite a few other boards haha. Bettas are probably my favorite fish, due to the unlimited and endless strains you can produce by selective breeding programs and cross breeding with natural pure wild species.
What makes me sad is the mistreatment and insane amount of BS out there which some fish "experts" call "care sheets". The most astonishing thing I've seen on a betta care sheet was: "Bettas, the cold water tropical ornamental fish."

 

[Xander505]

Here's a male red dragon halfmoon plakat and a male red black copper dragon halfmoon plakat, that I have on hold and will get next month.

Red dragon hmpk

Red black copper dragon hmpk

 

[Xander505]

Here's a few bettas, I'll be receiving next month to start my new betta breeding project.

Male red dragon over halfmoon (OHM)

Male red copper halfmoon (HM)

Male white gold halfmoon

Male Gold "Dumbo" halfmoom plakat (Dumbo/Big ear HMPK) these bettas are a fairly new strain in the hobby. The enlarged pectorals give the betta the look of Elephant ears, thus the labeling of these bettas as "Dumbo" bettas. The most common dumbos bred are purple and pink base dumbo bettas with white fins or just full white, so finding a gold one was pretty cool.

Platinum gold halfmoon plakat (HMPK) female to go along with my Dumbo gold HMPK male.

 

[Xander505]

Male super white halfmoon plakat.

 

[beetleman]

simply beautiful! love the solid white,awesome assortment!

 

[Xander505]

Not really a salamander pattern betta guy, but when I saw this halfmoon betta, I said: "Damn..." What really struck me about this Steel salamander butterfly halfmoon, was the pattern on it's tail. Really reminded me of a orchid flower. Will be getting this guy shipped over in June.

 

[Xander505]

Male yellow dragon halfmoon plakat

 

[josh_r]

It is always day 3... It is so frustrating....... I have often wondered if it has to do with the eggs not being fertile. Or possibly water quality issues.... If the water parameters are not just right, they do tend to swallow. But why always at day 3?

 

[Mike41793]

Some of these bettas are amazing looking. I really like the crowntails!

 

[beetleman]

yeah,i'm a betta junkie.....i'll admit it