The Beauty of Bettas
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All About Bettas
Betta splendens are more commonly known as Siamese Fighting Fish. These colorful fish are native to Thailand where they live in the shallow waters of rice paddies and eat insects. The males are very brightly colored with elaborate fins that they purposely expand during mating displays or when fighting other males over territory. The females are much less colorful and have smaller fins.
Bettas make popular house pets not only because they are beautiful but because they are adapted to small spaces and low-oxygen content water, both features of their native environment. This allows them to be kept in smaller fish bowls with less maintenance.
In addition to their beautiful mating displays, the male betta is the main caregiver when it comes to raising the young. The male will build a nest of air bubbles where he puts the eggs released by the female during mating. He then defends and maintains the nest until the young fish hatch.
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- B Is For Bettas
Betta splendens is a species of fish known more commonly as Siamese Fighting fish. Native to rice paddies, these fish are popular as easy-to-care-for pets. - Siamese fighting fish
The Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens), also known as the "beta fish" or just "betta", is one of the most popular species of freshwater aquarium fish. It is native to the rice paddies of Thailand and Cambodia... - Betta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Betta is a large genus of small, often colorful, freshwater ray-finned fishes in the gourami family (Osphronemidae). There are 28 known species of betta.
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Know Your Betta
Colors - the range of colors that you can find in Bettas can be extremely varied. More common colors include reds, blues and greens, but if you want to put in the time and have the budget, you can also get bettas that have been bred to be yellow, teal, pink, salmon, black or rare mixes.
Fin shapes - when it comes to fin shapes, these details really only apply to the males. Female bettas have very small fins but the males have large and brilliant frills and tails which they can fan out to make themselves appear much larger. Fringes, half-moon, spade tails and more variations are available. Half-moon bettas are very popular as this term refers to fins which are large half-circles which form near-circles around the fish when all the fins are fanned open.
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Betta Blogs
- shrimp-attack.com» Blog Archive » Betta Splendens Offspring
This is our betta splendens offspring (male: Royal-Blue-Butterfly HM, female: orange HM): Tags: betta splendens. This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 12:01 am and is filed under Fish. You can follow any responses to ...
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... 3 corydoras (spotted, bronze and punctatus); a 10 gal. with 3 guppy's, 3 kuhli loache's, 1 bi-color CAE, 3 cherry shrimp and 2 ghost shrimp; a 2 1/2 gal. with 1 male betta splendens; and a 1 gal. with a young female betta splendens. ...
- Moleskine: Betta Splendens | Emila's Illustrated Blog
Jiji suggested that I draw Betta Splendens or better known as Ikan Laga. So, I took the challenge and drew it. I tried to draw my own kaki tapi tak jadi.
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Fish Talk - comments and questions
Beta's are the only fish I really care to keep. I don't have any at the moment, but I'm tempted to get one and put it in a glass and place it randomly on the counter at my work.
G|M
I love Betta's too! In fact I made a color palette for mixing polymer clay, based on the colors of my Betta. They really have such beautiful colors. Perfect for making beads!
I enjoyed this hub. We have 2 bettas in our family which I adore. They not only bring beauty when they fan-out, but they are the sweetest fish I have ever owned. They will swim right up to my hand when I feed them. Thanks for the good read.













Everyday Miracles says:
6 months ago
I am not afraid of bettas, which makes them the perfect fish for me! They are so beautiful! Thanks for sharing!