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I was over at a LPS the other day and was looking at their bettas (actually, the BEST selection of bettas I've ever seen in a store) and found something curious.

They were calling their doubletails "twin tails", but one was designated as a "twin lobe" instead. I'm not quite sure what the difference was.

The guy who was helping me said that it was the difference between the shape of the tails? The "twin tails" were more spade shaped while the "twin lobe" had a more rounded end to the tails?

Just curious, is this a "real" tail type? I've never heard of it... now I need to go research. Thought I'd share, though.

And, uh... when I get a decent picture, I'll show you what he looks like.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

A doubletail is a doubletail.

two COMPLETE tails, not a split single tail. Each tail is called a lobe. The more complete the split, the better the quality of the fish. The lobes are supposed to be even, not top or bottom heavy.

The only difference I know if in doubletails is HMDT and VTDT, which basically seems to have to do with if the tail spans 180* or not.
They aren't recognised as 'real' tail types, as far as i can tell its more of a descriptive term used between buyers/sellers/breeders/etc than an actual 'breed'


maybe the splits weren't deep enough or maybe the fish had collapsed tails? Did they look any different?


EDIT: did they charge more for one or the other?

Last edited by Callatya at 23-Sep-2005 13:00

Last edited by Callatya at 23-Sep-2005 13:10

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

like calla said a DT=DT, but there are variations, but a bit of history, bettas come with different names so they can be sold for more money.

with DT, u will see some under"heart tail" basically this a shollow DT split. There are "top swords" like guppies, this is when the top lobe is larger than the bottom, same with the bottom lobe but under"lower swords"

other common DT names, split tails, split lobes etc....

basically they are all DT.

Not sure if there was a price difference... I wasn't interested in the ones labeled as twin tails (vs the twin lobe), so I didn't check. Not as unique... not as purple.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~