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They don't have names yet, they're sisters and just over an inch long.

I tried housing them together but they were fighting so for now they've been separated to their own bowls. I just got them today and I love them! They're so adorable and have a lot of personality. I'm going to make a mesh tank divider to see if I can slowly get them in the same tank, if not I will probably put one in a 5 gallon, one in my 10.

They're practically identical and sorry for the crummy pics. It's hard to get a good shot of a tiny betta on a 10 yr old digicam. :%)





I introduced them to one of my males, Gollum, and one of the girls was trying to flare at him through the glass. Gollum is close to 3 times the size of them, all he did was go to the edge of his tank, flared out his gills and the girl hid under her plant. It's hard to be tough when you're small.

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Such pretty girls! Congratulations! After I had seen a few female bettas at my lfs, I wondered why more stores don't sell more of these beauties.

Congrats on the find, they're both very pretty

I really like female bettas, they have such interesting personalities.


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Nice betta girls, Tryst! Where did you find them?
Female bettas are such interesting and cool fish, and they are generally less pugilistic than males. I agree in that they should be more available.

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In the US, you can try most any Jack's Aquarium and Pets store. They regularly carry female bettas. Where I am at, they actually carry multiple species of females. Not the Jack's, but other LFS. There are several big breeders around here, that have different species.

HTH......

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There is always a bigger fish...

Sorry it took me so long to reply. . .

I got them at an LFS, apparently they had been dropped off my a local breeder. I've been looking at their ray extensions and they appear to be deltas but they are still quite young so I'll be watching their finnage as they get older.

Unfortunately one of the poor girls came down with ich last Friday, but I have been treating with Jungle's Ich cure 2 and she has made a full recovery.

I am looking into breeding a few bettas in the spring/summer, i will probably try cambodians and reds.

[font color="#008000"]Those are real nice betta's, hope you do breed them in the future because i'm sure their fry will look lovely as well.[/font]

walmart had some like those, but sadly, those are the ones they put in those less than 1/2 gallon bowls, for $12 what a rip off] when u can buy a 10 for LESS! but the last 1 i saw was with a green male, a male guppy, AND female guppy and ofcourse she was dead, and covered with mold, she looked loke an oscar pellet after its been sitting at the top of the tank for 3 days, YUK, poor girl, i wanted to buy them all, but being so close to christmas, i dont have the money, time of space, but after christmas, NO ONE CAN STOP ME!!! well my parents can but thats besids the point, anyway, great looking girls!

I picked up 4 females last week that will eventually go into my community tank (they are quarantined right now). They are EVERY bit as brightly colored as the males (without the long fins of course) and are gonna look great in my big tank.

At my LSF, they told me that lately females are selling better than males! They think more people are learning about how you can keep them together. But he says in the summer, more people still buy males. Interesting huh?

-Dennis

Beautiful Betta girls! I live in a pretty small town with only 1 LFS. Surprisingly, they almost always have some betta girls in stock. They also have other interesting fish like Rams and polpterus (sp?) that I haven't seen at too many places. Go figure

Nice ones trys. Were did you get them my lfs has some every once in a while but there kinda strange if you could say that so im dont really think about buying them. You thinking about breeding them?

They also have other interesting fish like Rams and polpterus (sp?)

spelled polypterus. I have one and i love it there so cool and you can feed them tons of stuff are you thinking of getting one.

I might breed the last remaining one. . . my cat ate one of the girls last week.

She opened the cover and had herself a snack. ]

Oh no!

I'm so sorry! Theres a cat outside my window right now that I am scowling at for you.

-Dennis