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August 21st, 2008
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Fish Helper
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Wild Bettas!!!
here are a few pics of wild bettas. they look somewhat different from domesticated bettas. i want a wild betta XD
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August 21st, 2008
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Fish Helper
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They all look awesome!! I really like that plakat.  |
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August 21st, 2008
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Fish Keeper
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Yeah, the wild strain is becoming more popular in fish keeping. I know they sell them on aquabid. They are a lot more expensive.
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August 21st, 2008
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Fish Helper
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FishKing
They all look awesome!! I really like that plakat. |
i know its very pretty, thanks!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Amanda
Yeah, the wild strain is becoming more popular in fish keeping. I know they sell them on aquabid. They are a lot more expensive.
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Last edited by Chief_waterchanger; August 21st, 2008 at 03:11 PM.
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August 21st, 2008
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Galactic Overlord
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We keep both betta mahachai and betta falx here.
The betta mahachai have bred for us several times.
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August 21st, 2008
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Fish Addict
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino
We keep both betta mahachai and betta falx here.
The betta mahachai have bred for us several times.
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are any of those pix of a mahachai? |
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August 21st, 2008
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Fish Mentor
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Beautiful! I love the one on the left!
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August 21st, 2008
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Fish Addict
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Nope, this is a mahachi: (or at least a really bad pic of one... they go incredibly fluorescent green when displaying... as opposed to stuffing their lil faces lol)
I've bred mahachi, imbellis, pugnax and channoides. Right now I have channoides only though (plus some mysterious large wilds back home that fo rthe life of me cant figure out what they are... long story). Wilds are the best! I love my splendens, but the wilds just have that something about them... and the mouthbrooders are definitely my favourites of the wilds.
And just for fun my channoides male when he had a mouthful of eggs:
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August 21st, 2008
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Fish Master
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sapphirebetta those are some cooool betta's!! and your font is a KILLER to the old eyes hahahahah
im also wondering what type or is just a plain plakat what my mufasa is? http://www.fishlore.com/fishpicture/...php/photo/5898
although ive read and he looks like a HM DT plakat...I still get all the types confused!! |
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August 21st, 2008
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Fish Addict
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Originally Posted by Shawnie
sapphirebetta those are some cooool betta's!! and your font is a KILLER to the old eyes hahahah
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haha im 18, have 20/20 vision and its still hard for me to see  |
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August 21st, 2008
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Fish Keeper
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haha im 18, have 20/20 vision and its still hard for me to see
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Same here |
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August 21st, 2008
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Fish Addict
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i can see the dark blue fine...but that light blue really is killer...just think if u were colorblind...it would look like someone fell asleep on the space bar lol
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August 21st, 2008
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Fish Master
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sapphirebetta
here are a few pics of wild bettas. they look somewhat different from domesticated bettas. i want a wild betta XD
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That first one is not a wild type...the rest are and none are plakats that I can see. 
Here a site that some on here showed my a year ago
http://www.ibcbettas.org/smp/species/index.html
I myself have no interest in wild caught fish of any kind. I think it's cruel to take them from their natural environment just so we can have something new and different in our tanks.
Last edited by Allie; August 21st, 2008 at 06:50 PM.
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August 21st, 2008
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Fish Keeper
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Allie
I myself have no interest in wild caught fish of any kind. I think it's cruel to take them from their natural environment just so we can have something new and different in our tanks.
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i'm with you Allie, CUP-Kids for me!! they need to be rescued anyway!! |
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August 21st, 2008
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Galactic Overlord
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But if at some point someone did not collect wild caught fish, there would not be a hobby.
I understand where you are coming from, as the fact that most marine fish in the hobby are wild caught, and in danger of being overfished, is one of the main reasons I do not do salt fish.
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August 21st, 2008
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Fish Master
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino
But if at some point someone did not collect wild caught fish, there would not be a hobby.
I understand where you are coming from, as the fact that most marine fish in the hobby are wild caught, and in danger of being overfished, is one of the main reasons I do not do salt fish.
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Oh there will always be hobby as long as people keep breeding their fish. I think there will always be wild caught available for those who want them. There has to be some limit tho...like with the zebra plecos.
For me I am not supporting any Thai breeders or wild caught sellers...not when so many neglected lfs betta are out there. |
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August 21st, 2008
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Fish Keeper
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I always buy bettas from cups...I know that it's a double-edged sword. But, I feel bad & I can give them a good home.
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August 21st, 2008
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Fish Master
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Amanda
I always buy bettas from cups...I know that it's a double-edged sword. But, I feel bad & I can give them a good home.
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Somebody has to. It's not like the betta at Walmart or at a lfs is much of their profit. They have lots of other things that gives much more of chunk of change than the Betta...either way betta sales don't affect them. So why not get them out of their death traps before they end up in a garbage bin or flushed.  |
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