A Really Great Find

[Faia Betta]

I'm almost jumping with joy...

the post where I was asking if I should buy the yellow male with chewed up fins, I was able to identify the coloration..

His color, yellow with black "trim" on the scales, is referred to as pineapple.

http/www.flickr.com/photos/88838113@N00/223239870/
http/www.flickr.com/photos/88838113@N00/...l-19023688@N00/

are probably the best pictures of a pineapple betta


The fins aren't as bad as I originally thought ---- it actually looks like his tail --- VT --- got cut off halfway down and I'm saying this cause its not ragged like bitten tails are.

A new problem though is that this pineapple betta doesn't have the "hunch" of males, that area of thickness just behind the head ---- he is actually rather smooth along the spine... I'm wondering some sort of side-effect of bad breeding, bad care and/or is it possible that I stumbled upon some sort of Betta hybrid

 

[Leedsboi86]

Not a Hybrid.

Looks like a Combtail kinda (VTXCT)

I would guess it's a side-effect to breeding maybe.
Or could just be a deformity

Somone on forum will be able to help ya

 

[Faia Betta]

the fish in the pictures IS NOT mine
I'm using them for an idea on color.....





My fish is a straight VT whose tail fin has been cut short somehow.... there's no "crowning" or anything of the like with mine.

 

[Leedsboi86]

I know a LFS that use to cut there VT's to make them out to be PK and Delta....
they got closed down for selling Fruit Salad Tetra(Dyed Glassfish)

 

[Faia Betta]

That maybe so

But I don't buy abused fish --- and if I was to find that going on in a LFS I'd have a petition to have such ended.
He's the only one with the clipped tail and trust me, even shortened it still looks veil-like so it's not some shop's trick.


The pineapple male is the ONLY fish with the clipped tail - given as to how he was in a tank with other fishes and not in a bowl it is possible that the tail was cut thanks to some high powered filter or over-zealous fish.


I am more concerned about his body's appearance.... as I previously said there is no "hunch" or thickness behind his head and he is actually thin [vertically so top to bottom] if you compare him to the other male [Rainbow] that I purchased from the same store....

Do you think that this narrowness can be poor breeding

Poor care

Or is it possible by very chance that this narrow male may not be entirely fighting fish but have some other Betta speices in his genetics???


Would it be better if I questioned a professional breeder instead, maybe

 

[starrynightxxi]

considering it's a veiltail at an LFS my guess would be poor genetics regardless of looks. and also regardless of breeding or care, he could easily be thin due to being outcompeted for food by the fish in the other tank. Or he might just be a slender fish. Some of them are.

cutting tails is often used to prevent the spreading of fin rot.