True Green Betta

HI all. We have a 10 gallon that we are cycling and we plan to get a Betta for it. Here's the problem. My daughter really wants a green Betta. I have been looking for them but I'm having a hard time finding one. She doesn't want one of the turquoise fish, it has to be true green. Are they rare? Does anyone know where I can get one? Thanks all

 

You could always ask your lfs to special order a green one. Or to call you if a green one comes in a shipment.

 

There are very few truly green betta, it is a hard color to breed for as it hasn't been sought after. You can find one that has a green cast to it and see if that one will work?
This is the closest to green for the ones I have.

without flash

with flash, I bought him as a mostly white fish with flashy stripes of the color he is now from petco. He is a double tail.

 

Mcasella he's beautiful! And exactly the color she's looking for.
Paige98 I am going to ask the LFS if they can get one, but I was looking for a pic so they know what we're wanting. I had just noticed that there didn't seem to be many green ones for sale. I was starting to worry that I was going to have to tell my daughter that we were going to have to find a different kind of green fish. I may still have to lol

Thank you both for your help

 

You can borrow my grizzle's pictures to show them what you are looking for, if you go for a green-looking baby betta their color will change, you can try ebay or maybe aquabid?

 

You can borrow my grizzle's pictures to show them what you are looking for, if you go for a green-looking baby betta their color will change, you can try ebay or maybe aquabid?

It's not just rare because of lack of want... it's bloody hard.

You have a beauty there. Jealous actually lol.

You can always look at the buy and sell groups on Facebook as well. Many do special orders. I know Zen Betta does... but he may only do one more order this year (weather).

Good luck!

 

@ he's beautiful! And exactly the color she's looking for.
@ I am going to ask the LFS if they can get one, but I was looking for a pic so they know what we're wanting. I had just noticed that there didn't seem to be many green ones for sale. I was starting to worry that I was going to have to tell my daughter that we were going to have to find a different kind of green fish. I may still have to lol

Thank you both for your help

If you go the route of another type of fish there are some gorgeous green guppies out there and you could keep three males in a 10 gal!

 

Thanks for the idea Paige98. I'll look at the Guppies and see what she thinks.
And thank you Mcasella for letting me show your pictures. It will be a huge help

 

I have a bi-color male that I am adopting out, if you are interested (I had forgotten about him, but he is listed in the buy/sell/trade forum),

This is what he looks like. (He is still healing, but right now is enjoying a ten gallon heated/cycled tank, his fins are getting closer to being fully healed and he swims over when I walk to look in to check on him - his tail fin still has some growing out to do, you can read up on him here - ).

 

Wow, Mcasella! He has come a long way and looks so much better. The tank that he would be going into hasn't cycled yet, but if you still have him when it does, I'll get in touch with you. It was kind of funny; I showed him to my daughter, who is 3, and asked what she thought of him. She said "I like him but he doesn't have a fan." I told her that he had been sick and that his "fans" would come back as he gets better (keep it simple for her, right? lol) She said "We should get him. But not until my tank is fixed." (Cycled; she says that its broken right now and she can't have fish; she tells EVERYBODY lol)

 

Certainly, I can put him on hold for you even, he was happy enough this morning to flare a little and he looks pretty good. He'll need a lower flow filter (the one he has is baffled and has a slow flow) as his fins are rather long.

 

Certainly, I can put him on hold for you even, he was happy enough this morning to flare a little and he looks pretty good. He'll need a lower flow filter (the one he has is baffled and has a slow flow) as his fins are rather long.

Holding him for me would be great, but I don't want to keep him from getting a home if someone else sees him and wants him. I don't know how long its going to take to get the tank cycled; its been cycling for over a month with Stability and we still haven't gotten more than a very slight trace of nitrites and no nitrates. I think I'm going to empty it, clean it out and start over. I have a filter for it in my 29 gallon for seeding, so hopefully that'll speed things up.

Mcasella, How do you think that little guy of yours would do with either cherry shrimp or a school of Habrosus cories?

 

The basic colors seem to have mostly disappeared these days, with the exception of red, of course. Green used to be quite common, and crossing green with steel blue produced cornflower blue. Getting a fish with a good solid color used to actually mean something in the IBC.

 

The basic colors seem to have mostly disappeared these days, with the exception of red, of course. Green used to be quite common, and crossing green with steel blue produced cornflower blue. Getting a fish with a good solid color used to actually mean something in the IBC.

Thanks for the info chromedome52. Its a shame that more effort wasn't made to keep the basic colors.

 

I can test him with shrimp, he does fine with medium cories, not reason he should bother smaller (he ignores them, doesn't even fuss over the medium ones - I can see how well he does with some habrosus and maybe cherry/orange shrimp, at least I can see how he reacts to them). He likes brine shrimp, so he would probably eat baby shrimp.

 

I can test him with shrimp, he does fine with medium cories, not reason he should bother smaller (he ignores them, doesn't even fuss over the medium ones - I can see how well he does with some habrosus and maybe cherry/orange shrimp, at least I can see how he reacts to them). He likes brine shrimp, so he would probably eat baby shrimp.

It looks like my tank is too small for the habrosus cories, so shrimp may be the way we go. If we get shrimp, I plan on having a lot of little hiding places for them. We were thinking cherry shrimp, but I'm wondering if bigger shrimp, such as amano, might not be better just because the cherries are so small and bite sized. I know that the Betta will probably eat any baby shrimp he could get, but it is my hope that with a lot of cover and hiding places, some would survive.

 

It looks like my tank is too small for the habrosus cories, so shrimp may be the way we go. If we get shrimp, I plan on having a lot of little hiding places for them. We were thinking cherry shrimp, but I'm wondering if bigger shrimp, such as amano, might not be better just because the cherries are so small and bite sized. I know that the Betta will probably eat any baby shrimp he could get, but it is my hope that with a lot of cover and hiding places, some would survive.

Pygmy coreys are another type of corey to check into. They are becoming common all the way down to five gallon tanks. Males often only get .75 inches. They do need some good swim lanes though.

Also, with enough plants and cover you would be amazed at what can survive.

 

Thank you for the info ashenwelt. I'll definitely look into the pygmy coreys.

 

That was the laziest display of stalking I have seen before. He got real interested in the baby took one swipe, scared himself, dashed off and just kind of floated around keeping an eye on the baby shrimp and berried female I was testing him with (they are in a clear container to allow him to see), I am not sure how well he would be able to stalk but he seems to tire out quickly when stalking (which is a good thing, took him less than a minute to become disinterested in the contained shrimp - not sure how well it would go with live shrimp - I would test him on ghosts but mine are hiding in a huge clump of moss and are fast enough to avoid me trying to catch them with all the decor/plants they have to play on), it isn't like he got bored, just that he doesn't seem used to having to chase down his food - I think his fins will hender him from being willing to chase down baby shrimp and adults that can dash away faster than he can. I'd say densely plant in places for the shrimp and leave so places for him to freely swim (pack around edges and back corners, then leave area under "feed slot" open for him *since he knows that's about the area I feed him, even if I lift the lid completely* and give him some place to lay about near the surface *he likes the floating minI sword I have in the tank and the floating anubias as well*), decor or rocks would probably make him feel comfy, he has a large piece of driftwood to play around in his current tank. He normally sleeps on the terracotta pot.
While I think he might be able to munch on some babies he would get tired too quickly to get more than one at a time with how fast they are.

 

Awesome! Thanks for checking Mcasella