Getting a new betta baby

[3muttsandaboston]

This will be my 6th. Someone on a fish forum I just joined offered to mail her to me for the price of shipping. I am thinking of breeding her with my betta comet.

Here is Comet..


The little girl i'm getting...Her name is Karma and I think i'll keep it.

[BC_MoM]

She's GORGEOUS!

[bckrazy]

Awww, what a cutie! I love her coloring. She has a Cambodian/Butterfly/Irridescent thing going on. :3

Both of them are beautiful Bettas... but, personally, I wouldn't breed Veiltails. In the long run, it is just MUCH harder to find a home for a VT, because they are overflowing in pet stores everywhere. And, considering that the average Betta spawn produces at least 50 babies, that is a lot of homes to find.

In addition to that, the VT gene is super dominant. If you spawn a VT and a Halfmoon, you will get all VTs. There is no real "goal" with breeding VTs. It would take several generations to breed quality tail types out of VTs. Your first spawn is the most expensive, and it will cost you at the veryyy least $100-200, so I think it's worth it to invest in a show quality (or near) pair. That way, you might even be able to break even, after selling the beebs! You would pretty much have to give away Veiltails, not that they aren't pretty, but they are all in all the "mutts" of the Betta world.

Ok, I'm done.

[Husky_mom]

OMG what a cutie!!....

have you seen binka_nuggets bettas??... ask her to show them to you.... perhaps even get one from her..... let me warn you drop dead gorgeous!!

[binka_nugget]

Very cute, but ditto everything bckrazy said

OMG what a cutie!!....

have you seen binka_nuggets bettas??... ask her to show them to you.... perhaps even get one from her..... let me warn you drop dead gorgeous!!

I'm down to one single petsmart Crowntail now Most of my babies got ich and died after I started using a non-hikari brand of bloodworms. The ones who survived were always weak and didn't live very long in adulthood. My adults eventually passed as they got older. The local breeder and fish store I got my fish from stopped breeding so the only option now is to order online.. but if I'm not breeding, that's A LOT of money to spend on pet bettas.

[Husky_mom]

Very cute, but ditto everything bckrazy said


I'm down to one single petsmart Crowntail now Most of my babies got ich and died after I started using a non-hikari brand of bloodworms. The ones who survived were always weak and didn't live very long in adulthood. My adults eventually passed as they got older. The local breeder and fish store I got my fish from stopped breeding so the only option now is to order online.. but if I'm not breeding, that's A LOT of money to spend on pet bettas.

how sad!!.... I was so looking forward to one time get one from you.... when possible....

they really were gorgeous!!...could you email me some pics so I can use as wallpaper??

sorry to hijack ....

[bckrazy]

I'm down to one single petsmart Crowntail now Most of my babies got ich and died after I started using a non-hikari brand of bloodworms. The ones who survived were always weak and didn't live very long in adulthood. My adults eventually passed as they got older. The local breeder and fish store I got my fish from stopped breeding so the only option now is to order online.. but if I'm not breeding, that's A LOT of money to spend on pet bettas.

Aww, Ashleyyy. I'm so sorry. =,(

I had a die-off of my two FAVORITE breeding pairs, who were all in a divided 10g. They all died within a few days of each other, mysteriously. One of the pairs were siblings of the turquoise BF spawn, and what bums me out the most is that I can't continue that line. The other pair was my yellow & green BF DT Plakats, I was also about to breed them.

I got really discouraged after losing those four... but I had another small spawn over the summer, and I'm about to spawn 2 siblings from that, for the Northern California show in May. Sometimes you just need a break. Bettas have such fragile lives, and it sounds lame, but they can break your heart.

If you're interested in copper marble Plakats this summer, you know I would send you some, for free. C: That is, if I ever figure out how to go about deporting/importing fish.