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Out of curiousity, is there a difference between flaring in male and female bettas? I *think* - and I could be mistaken - that I saw mentioned somewhere that while males have that extra "fringe" to flare out, females do not.

It just occured to me that I don't believe I've ever seen that extra fringe when my females flare, just the males. Seems to me that if this is true, it would be an additional way to differentiate between females and short-finned males.

This question brought to you by the newest female addition to my betta brigade... who just showed me the tiniest little flare I ever did see... and had no gill fringe to show for all her bravado.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

hmm wow i never thought of that also if u look at the span(excuse my forgetting of their names) from the little "feeler" fins (told ya) and the long anal fin u will see that there is a wider gap between them, and u can also tell if u see an egg tube (it will obviously be female)

Hmm... I guess this would solve my debate over one of my fish... bought "her" as female, THOUGHT I saw the oviposter at one point, but haven't since. And it SHOULD be dang easy to find, considering "she" is dark blue/purple. I've never thought about the fins being farther apart... will have to go take a peek.

I'm just curious about the "fringe" because Jezebel/beau (the one with the identity crisis ) definitely has a fringe (albeit a small one) and none of my other females seem to.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

here i will go and look at my girls, hey flair all the time (so cute!!)

well what do u know 1 girl has none, 1 girl has a slight fringe coming from the bottom, but my oldest girl had TOTAL fringe like male size funny how i never noticed that and the weirdest thing one girl looks like a crowntail(and she is), another looks like a halfmoon() and the one with the fringe looks viel funny huh? but the funny thing is i got them all from walmart

Last edited by fishyhelper288 at 03-Mar-2005 19:26

Hmm... maybe it's an age thing? Weird. Wonder if anyone else has any input. The girl/guy I'm referring to is probably in the middle of all my girls, age-wise. Interesting.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

I just got my first female (at least I hope she is) last weekend and she has a huge flair. She is pretty good sized so I'm guessing she is a little older.

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