Colour & Tail Varieties

[Jimbo1984]

Hi all,

I bought a Betta from Maidenhead Aquatics yesterday. He was labelled as a Dragon Plakat. The guy in the shop was very helpful and knew a certain amount about the varieties but admitted he was no expert. It seems like you need to do a course in Bettas to fully understand the differences!

So what is dragon colouration?!?!

My little guy is powder/cobalt blue, the same colour you see lots of Dwarf Gouramis, fading into redness at the base of his fins, which have streaky blue lines in them.

So does anyone have a link to a good site explaining the different types, or maybe there's a topic I've missed?

Thanks!

 

[Azaeil]

If I remember right Dragons have a thicker scale appearance..

 

[dipsydoodlenoodle]

Post a picture and we can tell you

 

[RustedKnight]

From what I understand, dragon Betta's have much lighter coloured scales on their body, compared to their fins.

 

[BethK]

Dragons are noticable, first off by their coloration, they tend to have a metallic coloration, like the below;

They can come in many differant colors but the thick scaling (the whiter colored scales) are called mettalics, a proper dragon will have this metallic scaling all over it's body, minus a little bit of it's belly. Secondly, the scaling on the face is slightly bigger than the average betta splenden.

Then you have dragon masking - these have the genetics of the dragon trait but not the full scaling, so they will have part of the body scaled but not the full body.

 

[Jimbo1984]

Took a while but managed to get a decent photo:

 

[dipsydoodlenoodle]

Aww he is lovely lol.

I'm not a huge fan of the dragons but I do like him...they take forever to get a good photo of dont they!

 

[BethK]

Beautiful, he looks more like an armadillo dragon (long story short, some dude in asia bred the original dragon strain but there was a default in it, an American bred another strain, which became the armadillo).


I say this because of the coloring and tail coloration, very nice indeed

 

[Essjay]

He's the same colouration as my superdelta. The shop I got mine from has nearly all SD dragons in.

The bubbles on the water surface had come adrift from his bubble nest, nothing serious

 

[Jimbo1984]

This is confusing haha! Super Delta?!?!

So he's a Round Tail?

 

[BethK]

This is confusing haha! Super Delta?!?!

So he's a Round Tail?

No, super delta is just an inhanced version of a delta tail, round tail is different