Funny I Swore I'd Never Get These Tail Types

For the longest time I HATED veiltails and crowntails. I thought they looked tacky. I swore I'd never get them. I used to rail against veiltails calling them lame, and inbred. Well I started to have a hankering for a purple betta. I looked at some photos and found myself falling in love with the purple veiltails. It was really strange! Well one day I was at petco and I saw this amazing purple veiltail. Forgetting my boycott of veiltails I purchased him! Now he is healthy and living in a divided tank! And I am super surprised! He looks amazing! Better than my halfmoon! I guess its not good to judge a book by its cover!

Jarvis is my crowntail. I HATE crowntails. I thought they looked like they perpetually had finrot. Well..I happened to see this amazing pink/purple and blue marbled dumbo eared crowntail. As with Baker the veiltail I forgot all my hatred of crowntails and purchased him. Strange how tastes change!

 

View attachment 540319 View attachment 540320 View attachment 540321 View attachment 540322 View attachment 540323 View attachment 540324 View attachment 540326 View attachment 540327 For the longest time I HATED veiltails and crowntails. I thought they looked tacky. I swore I'd never get them. I used to rail against veiltails calling them lame, and inbred. Well I started to have a hankering for a purple betta. I looked at some photos and found myself falling in love with the purple veiltails. It was really strange! Well one day I was at petco and I saw this amazing purple veiltail. Forgetting my boycott of veiltails I purchased him! Now he is healthy and living in a divided tank! And I am super surprised! He looks amazing! Better than my halfmoon! I guess its not good to judge a book by its cover!

Jarvis is my crowntail. I HATE crowntails. I thought they looked like they perpetually had finrot. Well..I happened to see this amazing pink/purple and blue marbled dumbo eared crowntail. As with Baker the veiltail I forgot all my hatred of crowntails and purchased him. Strange how tastes change!

Same!!!! I used to only pay attention to Bettas with long, flowing beautiful fins and never cared for the short stubby fins you find on female Bettas... I had a gorgeous male butterfly betta for 3 years before he passed not too long ago... fast forward to today and I have a male koi plaket. Turns out, these are the best type for me in my opinion. Less of a hassle, don’t need to constantly keep flow rates extremely low and compromise water turnover, don’t need to worry about their fins getting caught and torn up and don’t need to use a baffle that can look unsightly. It’s surprising to go with something that uninterests you but quickly grows on you and couldn’t imagine your life without it. Bettas will do that to you lol.

 

Your Bettas are beautiful by the way!

 

I have a rosetail which is also not sought after but I love him and he’s done amazingly well so far and I have absolute confidence that he will live a long and wonderful life. Glad you chose a less sought after betta and gave it a loving home! Saving the unwanted is a great thing!

 

I have a rosetail which is also not sought after but I love him and he’s done amazingly well so far and I have absolute confidence that he will live a long and wonderful life. Glad you chose a less sought after betta and gave it a loving home! Saving the unwanted is a great thing!

No betta is ugly provided that you give it time and a little TLC

 

yeah, before I started keeping bettas again I decided not to go with veiltails or crowntails because i've owned them in the past and they're so common. I don't remember ever seeing anything but veiltails when I was a kid -- I think college was the first time I saw a crowntail and bought one, and that was 7 or 8 years ago. now there are so many different types of bettas, I wanna have variety!

but I will admit that lately some crowntails have made me go all googly-eyed. and I also swore i'd never own another long-finned betta because of Issues, but now I have a halfmoon betta (who is a notorious fin-biter).

 

beautiful bettas!! i'm personally a huge fan of crowntails, and on an unrelated note, dumbo eared's.
I have to keep myself from coming home with guppies I find at my lfs, they're all so pretty haha

 

beautiful bettas!! i'm personally a huge fan of crowntails, and on an unrelated note, dumbo eared's.
I have to keep myself from coming home with guppies I find at my lfs, they're all so pretty haha

I have a plethora of guppies due to them having babies and I enjoy them all lol very pretty fish!

 

Lol when I see crowntails I call them spaghettI fish in my head.
They’re beautiful, but not my thing. Maybe I’ll convert one day like u

honestly whatever fish speaks to you is the best because at the end of the day, they’re your pet not just a picture or whatever

 

I have a plethora of guppies due to them having babies and I enjoy them all lol very pretty fish!

currently I only have males, but i'm wanting to get some females to make a breeding tank. I'll put the rest of my current males in a bigger tank just so I can go out and cherry pick some more male guppies and have room for it haha

 

I also used to highly dislike the look of veil tails (and most long-finned bettas, for that matter). I've always been a much bigger fan of plakats. My first betta was a half-moon, but more so for his coloring than his fins and I fell in love with him the second I saw him (seen in my profile pic). I still agree that plakats are a lot healthier and more active and generally live much better lives, and I still agree that rose tails and double tails are sort of awful to breed because they can barely swim, but I've noticed myself being more and more okay with veil tails. Probably mostly because they really aren't as bad off fin-weight-wise as rose tails and double tails. I currently have a rescue veil tail who zooms around the tank and I'm so glad I have him.

 

yeah, before I started keeping bettas again I decided not to go with veiltails or crowntails because i've owned them in the past and they're so common. I don't remember ever seeing anything but veiltails when I was a kid -- I think college was the first time I saw a crowntail and bought one, and that was 7 or 8 years ago. now there are so many different types of bettas, I wanna have variety!

but I will admit that lately some crowntails have made me go all googly-eyed. and I also swore i'd never own another long-finned betta because of Issues, but now I have a halfmoon betta (who is a notorious fin-biter).

My butterfly was a fin biter... I couldn’t figure out why because his parameters were always pristine and water current was almost nonexistent! I just figured that maybe he just had a habit of biting because he was bored. I used to change the decor around but his interest only lasted a month before he’d start biting again. I ended up using small amounts of aq salt for every water change to at least keep infections away since I couldn’t stop his fin biting mental disorder.

 

I used to have plakats when I was young in South East Asia because that's all we had. They were quite the jumpers.

Then fast forward many years later I had quite a few crowntails and veiltails. They were all very beautiful.

I used to choose my bettas from their colorings in the past. I stopped having fish for 10 years and couple weeks ago got a dumbo halfmoon half dead in the store.

This time I didn't really pick based on colouring or type. It was an impulse buy because I hate to see the fish suffering but I still have my 2.5, 5 and 10 gallon sitting around and I can use media from my current fish tub for cycling.

Turns out he is very friendly from day one lol. I put my palm in the water he would swim to my palm and hang out and chill out or swim around my fingers lol. He is not afraid of me at all. And he is my second betta that doesn't really flare at everything and I love that about him ❤.