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The pet store bettas are not at all going to be the best. They are all rejects in a way, not to be mean but you know. I picked up a steel blue Crown tail, he is not perfect but I love him. I just saw 2 MG at petsmart, The only color I have NEVER seen in the pet store is all black and an Albino male. You can find just about any color you want now a days.
Its hard to find bettas with really nice finage not just the veil tail. I am seeing more and more fancier bettas. Its exciting to see what you can find at the pet store because you never know any more. I have seen some some crown tails, delta tails, and comb tail. If you want to see some Crazy Beautiful bettas http://www.bcbetta.com/stock.html WOW those are the best looking fish ever haha.

[span class="edited"][Edited by snowflake311 2004-07-23 16:00][/span]

Do u mean true by solid green? Solid greens, and not bluish or with lots of irridesence, are pretty uncommon but not rare. To find one in a petstore would be rare. There are greens in the petstore but they are usually with redwash or other colours, and most are actually turquoise.

ashley

Black, orange and MG are not rare/uncommon.

The rarest colour is solid purple, there has yet to be a solid purple betta (that we know of). Albino, solid green (not turquoise!), and gold are uncommon. (gold is uncommon because it is such a new colour)

ashley

The mate and I just orderd some rare gold, black, and black with yellow in the fins.

True orange is quite uncommon, real (as opposed to the oft-seen knockoffs) mustard gas is getting more and more rare, and of course, the rarest betta of all: a (the?) fertile melano female.

-Molly
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and black and albino is becomeing less comin !

It seems that everyone is talking about Bettas being every color of the rainbow.... I was just wondering, is there one or two colors that are quite uncommon?

To thine own self be true...

i must have missed something in the bettta color world. i have seen them but never under stood what a triband is. what i thought it was is a betta with three colors(red,pastel,blue)

Perfect butterflies are becoming more common as more people are focusing on butterflies and marbles in general, but yup, they're still not particularly common. And Tutweiler bettas basically don't exist anymore, although the Libbys seem to be back.
Good tribands of any kind are quite rare, as are a lot of specific patterns certain people go for - I heard someone was breeding for dalmatian-style color with lots of little black spots on an opaque/cellophane background, working with marbles and so on. There's always someone working on something that just ain't gonna happen, so I suppose the outcomes of said projects are fairly rare!

-Molly
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It's three colors on the fins - for example, an even layer of red, then opaque, then blue. Tribands pop up every so often, but even ones with balanced amounts of each color and so on? Nuh-uh.

-Molly
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non-copper purple.

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

About 4 years ago, I found a pure black betta at the old fish store that closed up here in my tiny town. A friend of mine and I named him Tim the Enchanter (anyone who can figure out what movie we had watched nonstop for three days gets a cookie). That was my first serious venture into fishkeeping. He was kept in this HUGE glass vase my mom had (don't worry, no plant was wedged in the top keeping him from the air) that must've held about 2.5 gallons of water. He lived for quite a while on my desk watching me do homework and such. I've never been able to find another pure black betta like Tim. I'd love to find one again.

Iam basing that on my knowledge of betta colours and breeders Orange is really common in the show world, and I know of tons of breeders that are breeding them. MG is also really common because the name Mustard Gas is just a line name that represents the bi-colourd pattern (green, blue or purple body with yellow fins)

Yes a fertile melano female is really rare!

ashley

We'll just have to agree to disagree on those. Have to say, I'm always impressed by anyone who continues to breed bettas for more than a couple of years - there's something I'll never, ever, ever go back to! Fish you have to raise in a billion individual containers, of which perhaps 2% are actually show quality or worth much of anything, even for the extremely lucky? Not for me!

-Molly
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I have to ask (and please don't think I'm being rude- I'm just curious) why are people so obsessed with show quality pets? I thought that sort of elitism was reserved for dogs, cats, birds, and horses. I've never understood it. Could someone maybe explain it to me?

Well, if that's what you're breeding for, then that's why. Personally, I always wonder quite the opposite: with the overpopulation of pretty much every common animal, why would anyone breed a pair of animals that aren't the absolute best in every single way? People line up for show-quality animals and often for their pet-quality siblings, especially with dogs - but the offspring of backyard breeders, random crosses, and "accidents" all to often end up in shelters. Basically, it's another way to come at the fish hobby - although I agree it's not something I want to deal with. I like fish where all the fry are equally valued, it makes my life a lot easier!

[span class="edited"][Edited by LittleMousling 2004-07-23 16:48][/span]

-Molly
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I happen to like the "accidents" just fine and have a personal policy that I will never pay more than the humane sociaty's adoption fee (35 dollars) for a pure bred dog. It's insane what people charge, so I stick with "mutts" that have very reasonable adoption fees or the pure breds I've gotten free. We've had 3 purebred, papered collies we got free (one was vicious and given back, the others died of old age) and a free purebred chihuahua.

I know a lot of people only want a "perfect" pure bred dog(or any other pet), but I think someone who pays 400, 500, 600 dollars or more for a dog-or fish- is getting conned.

I'm not saying mutts are bad - absolutely the opposite of the case. I'm saying people who purposefully breed mutts, which, as you just said, are found in shelters everywhere, waaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy too many of them, ought to take a good hard look at what they're doing.

Buying a purebred animal from a respected hobby breeder means you know what you're getting in temperament, looks, soundness, genetic history, disease history, lifespan, on-time vaccinations, a usually lifetime guarantee, a contact and source of information about your dog and your breed, you can check with people who've bought puppies from them before, you can get a puppy for something you're interested in - a show-quality dog for conformation, a bright, follow the leader pup for obedience, an active, focused dog for agility, a dog for tracking, herding, hunting, retrieving, tolling, flyball, therapy, silly pet tricks, rally, high jump, long jump, water retrieving ... anything.
Adopted dogs make wonderful, unbeatable pets. But if you want to do things with your dog, sometimes it makes sense to start with the best genes for movement, temperament, and whatever else is needed for that specific activity, and to know exactly what you're starting with so you can write your own book, training wise, instead of hoping to guess what's already in there.

EDIT: IMO, a "papered" purebred that wasn't bred for a purpose and for temperament is basically a mix - the difference between the puppies a serious hobby breeder occasionally has for sale to buyers they carefully screen to make sure they're going to be ideal owners and backyard breeders who think any purebred is automatically a good dog or puppymillers (won't even go there) is so vastly different that the two latter cases are more or less on the mixed-breed side of the scale for me: nothing wrong with the dogs, mostly, but not worth what they charge, and you might as well adopt an animal and save a life rather than buy a puppy from those sources, the result's more or less the same: unpredictable.

[span class="edited"][Edited by LittleMousling 2004-07-23 17:28][/span]

-Molly
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Buying from a respected breeder is no real guarantee though. A girl I know (kind of a close acquaintance) went with her father to one of my area's most respected Collie breeders to get a puppy for her mom's birthday. They paid 700 bucks for a dog guaranteed to be as great as Lassie and ended up with a vicious (despite gentle, loving care), genetically defective (bad hip) dog and no way to prove one of the community's most respected men was lying when he said it wasn't the same cuddly pup he's sold them. So I don't trust the elitist attitudes towards pets. I don't get a dog until I've had time to observe and pick out just the one I want. I used to go right into the pen at the Humane Society and see which of the beautiful mutts had the best attitude. I ended up with a mix of Chow and Alaskan Wolfhound I believe (he looks a lot like one of my girlfriend's Alaskan wolfhounds) and he's the one of the best pets I've ever had.

Thats why bettas are great, theres no chance of them getting vicious and ripping your arm off :%) lol