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I've been reading up on some Bettas and was wondering if a black male Betta is something rare or fairly common...also if it is a fairly common strain where can i get one????

In pet stores, I rarely see black bettas, but online, they're quite common. Black Lace males (not as rich and deep a black) are more common than Melano males (very deep black, v. pretty), partially because crossing a Melano male with most females (marble, other colors) leads to Black Lace at best, unknowns and mixtures at worst. The only way to produce melanos is to cross the melano male with a steel blue spawn sister who's carrying melano (there aren't any fertile melano females, at least there aren't any yet).

Erm, that was probably more than you needed to know! Try Aquabid.com, or breeder's sites. In fact, you can look on Aquabid for fish you like and then go to the site of the breeder who's selling them, often.

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I've never seen a black betta in a store, but I have heard of them online.

EDIT: I did just see a black one at my LCS yesterday, it was one of four bettas in the store.

[span class="edited"][Edited by sirbooks 2004-09-02 07:00][/span]

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i have seen a few black males by me. how ever if you do see 1 it probably isn't melano but black lace.

try AquaBid.com

Black lace are fairly common online

Black melano ("true" black) is a bit harder to find as the female black melano are usually sterile, to get melano's you have to breed a black melano male with a steel blue female

^_^* Probably too much information, but I was doing some research on the subject