i will be gettng a fighting fish soon but i want a pure 1 if posible ive heard tales that red specimens are the pure kind but im not sure
what colour is a pure siamese fighting fish
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The glamorous long-fin forms of Betta splendens are pure invention. Such fish don't exist in nature. They are selections, however,not hybrids, so they are all pure Betta splendens. These fish are the result of selecting an arbitrary "best" out of each generation of domestic bred fish.
The glamorous long-fin forms of Betta splendens are pure invention.
what do u meen by pure invention i might be misreading the post but they come from thailand still there must be a more dominatet strand of colour in the fighter fish
what do u meen by pure invention i might be misreading the post but they come from thailand still there must be a more dominatet strand of colour in the fighter fish
The fish you see in the jars at the lfs don't look like the pure wild species, called Betta splendens. They have been created entirely-- purely-- through generations of selective breeding. They are not hybrids, crossed between species-- so in that sense they are "pure."
Is this close to what you were thinking of when you posted "pure?"
Is this close to what you were thinking of when you posted "pure?"
I'm sure that all of the colors you see may have a glint or more in some bettas, but from what I've seen in magazines (I've never and probably never will see a wild betta) are kind've a reddish-brownish and grayish brown. With much shorter fins of course. You can't protect your territory and lady with baggage like that.
yeah i ment like if u went fishing(in the wild)and u courght a fighter fish what colour would it be a non released 1 at that but vodoo u mainly got what i was looking for.
the wild form of the siamese fighting fish is a reddy-brown. and, wetman, the siamese fighting fish do have their long finnage in the males in the wild...it is there to show off to the females. of course, some of this finnage has been exaggerated during domestication, esspecially in the females, but not excessively so in the male. unlike the guppy, fighters do have their very full finnage in the wild.
I have never seen a betta with more than 3/4 of his fin lenght in the wild than what you'd see in captive breds. They're long sure, but they're not what you see at stores by any means.
Betta splendens isn't a naturally occurring fish. If you caught one in the wild, you'd be catching something that has been bred into that shape over the last several centuries. Betta imbellis is believed to be the original fish and I think they're talking about folding the imbellis back into a single species called splendens. They're the same fish. They look like this:
The super long finnage would be a serious detriment in the wild. They're bred that way as a decorative element for ornamental fish. The actual fighters bred in Southeast Asia are bred with somewhat shorter fins that better facilitate fighting.
The super long finnage would be a serious detriment in the wild. They're bred that way as a decorative element for ornamental fish. The actual fighters bred in Southeast Asia are bred with somewhat shorter fins that better facilitate fighting.