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[love cichlids]

I was at an excellent fish store, been there a couple of times. This time I seen some bettas and they ranged from $5 to $30. The more expensive ones are different types and come directly from Thailand. I thought there was only one type of betta. Can't remember all the different types, but there was at least 5 different ones there. Some had beautiful full rounded fins. It was neat, if I knew this I would have bought one, but did not bring enough money with me, just enough to buy my 2 german rams i wanted.

 

[Nuttygal! :0)]

! Are you going to buy a betta another time then?

 

[OohFeeshy]

There' different betta tail types if thats what you mean (look on the betta forum) and I think there are lots of species of betta- (These are probably wrong so don't kill me ) betta splendens, betta plakat and some others. Lots of other. Ignore me, I can not count.

 

[sylvia]

There are several wild species of betta (besides betta splendens and it's various color morphs and varieties) - such as betta imbellis or betta bellica - so I'm guessing this is what you are talking about?

 

[love cichlids]

i will be going there on friday so i will write down the different types they have there, very interesting names.

 

[gale]

I would suggest reading through some pinned topics and other threads in the Bettas forum here.

 

[SirMinion]

Three species of Betta? Um.
Everyone is familiar with Betta Spendens, known in some places as The Siamese Fighting Fish, but a quick flick through the Baensch Aquarium Atlas reveals a few more than three species...

• Betta akarensis
  [*]Betta anabatoides
  [*]Betta bellica
  [*]Betta bleekeri
  [*]Betta brederi
  [*]Betta brownorum
  [*]Betta climacura
  [*]Betta coccina
  [*]Betta edithae
  [*]Betta fasciata
  [*]Betta foershi
  [*]Betta imbellis
  [*]Betta macrophalma
  [*]Betta macrostoma
  [*]Betta patoti
  [*]Betta persephone
  [*]Betta phuket
  [*]Betta picta
  [*]Betta pugnax
  [*]Betta patoti
  [*]Betta simplex
  [*]Betta smaragdina
  [*]Betta spendens
  [*]Betta rutilans
  [*]Betta taeniata
  [*]Betta tussyae
  [*]Betta unimaculata
  [*]Betta waseri

And this list is possibly still incomplete as it's only the ones described in Baensch

 

[Sorrell]

Betta akarensis
Betta albimarginata
Betta anabatoides
Betta balunga
Betta bellica
Betta fasciata
Betta bleekeri
Betta breviobesus
Betta brownorum
Betta brownorum
Betta burdigala
Betta channoides
Betta chini
Betta chloropharynx
Betta coccina
Betta dimidiata
Betta edithae
Betta enisae
Betta falx
Betta foerschi
Betta fusca
Betta hipposideros
Betta imbellis
Betta livida
Betta macrostoma
Betta miniopinna
Betta ocellata
Betta patoti
Betta persephone
Betta pi
Betta picta
Betta trifasciata
Betta pinguis
Betta prima
Betta pugnax
Betta trifasciata
Betta anabatoides
Betta rubra
Betta macrophthalma
Betta fusca
Betta taeniata
Betta brederi
Betta pulchra
Betta renata
Betta rubra
Betta rutilans
Betta schalleri
Betta simorum
Betta simplex
Betta sp Krabi
Betta smaragdina
Betta spilotogena
Betta splendens
Betta strohi
Betta taeniata
Betta tomi
Betta tussyae
Betta unimaculata
Betta ocellata
Betta waseri
Undescribed species
Betta sp.
Betta sp. Bangka
Betta sp. Bung Bihn
Betta sp. Kapuas
Betta sp. Mahachai
Betta sp. Pangkalanbun
Betta sp. Sanggau
Betta sp. Southern Thailand
Betta sp. Sukadana

Also to clarify, all the tail types you saw, including plakats are splendens

 

[Vip]

just when i though there were to many bettas.

 

[SirMinion]

As I said:

this list is possibly still incomplete as it's only the ones described in Baensch

Well done Sorrell!


Any more anyone?

 

[Dwarfs]

just when i though there were to many bettas.

I agree

 

[Sorrell]

I pulled that off of the IBC (International Betta Congress) website about the species management program so I do believe that's the complete recognized list, but if you look there are undescribed species' so I'm sure there's more to come

 

[DannyBoy17]

I had no idea there were so many Bettas until I came on here.

Good on you guys for better educating the rest of us

Cheers,

DB

 

[SMSBrunetteGirl]

Ohh,you should go back and buy a betta soon

 

[fufanu360]

holy crap, i thot there were enough colors and stuff of bettas, probly like 2% of those are acually common