So the other day I was scrolling through a webpage of Bettas for sale and saw a very elegant little creature that was labelled as a female Betta imbellis but looked wrong shapewise in the pics, the colour was super pale from stress. I ordered it and have ended up with this little guy. It looks green or teal or blue depending on the light. It's a male Betta mahachaiensis isn't it? No sign of red on the fins which apparently discounts imbellis and splendens.
Whatever it is, the name is now Eddie
Sorry for the bad pic quality. It doesn't stay still for more than a second!
New addition. Betta mahachaiensis.. probably
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It may be, I'm no expert on them...but...if it is don't they need a mild brackish environment?
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I'm almost curtain you have a Betta smaragdina which comes in various colours for the pet trade.
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Thank you. It turns out you are probably partially correct. The seller got back to me and he explained. "He looks like Mahachaiensis but the shiny colour is from Hybrid.They can be both because hybrid are developed from Mahachai."Martinspuddle wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 17:23 pmI'm almost curtain you have a Betta smaragdina which comes in various colours for the pet trade.
So he's an alien Betta 'lite'
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Martinspuddle wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 17:10 pmYes your right @plankton but that isn't Betta mahachaiensis. See Below.
Thanks for your help.
It turns out he is a hybrid but probably more Mahachaiensis than anything else. I read that they can be kept in medium hard to hard freshwater as well as brackish. My water is hard so hopefully should be good for this guy.
Betta mahachaiensis
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Beautiful looking fish. I hadn’t realised stores were selling wild types.
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Very few stores are, and to be honest I would prefer to use a online breeder then you would know the fishes age.Frogtastic wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 19:24 pm Beautiful looking fish. I hadn’t realised stores were selling wild types.
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Thanks, I actually got him from an online store. Nobody around here has wild bettas or even particularly nice Betta splendens, not that I have managed to find anyway.Frogtastic wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 19:24 pm Beautiful looking fish. I hadn’t realised stores were selling wild types.
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