Help For Id & Sexing

[StrontiumDog]

Hi all,

I've been keeping fish for over 25 years, and yes I need help.

Having always loved bettas, last year I got a male VT "The Red Baron" (only the 3rd time i've named a fish). Now I can honestly say
I can Id male types.
Females on the other hand now a days to me are difficult because of there colour (20 years ago they where a drab color and easy to Id),
even when young.

So yasterday I thought, now i'm back working i'll try my hand at breeding bettas. While at the LFS I seen this betta in with males, now im probly wrong but, this one was acting different.

Here's 3 pics, 2 from yesterday, and one from today.
The fins (caudal) looks CT on the 1st pic.

Many thanks in advance.

Dog

 

[aly_starh]

it might possibly be a female, but it looks like a Halfmoon plakat male to me. Not 100% sure, someone else might be able to help!

~betta_246

 

[jasminekiddell]

To me it really looks like a male but i cant be sure but i think its a male. Ah im so confusedd now i think its a girl, leave someone else to decide lol!

 

[pippoodle]

she looks like a female
hasn't got the fin extension of a male and has stress lines in first pic

 

[betta fish]

It's a youngster that's for sure! could be a female but I'm going to say young male veiltail at this stage, pretty sure it's a veiltail type and not a crowntail, let us know how he/she progresses

 

[soph_betta]

I would say female looks exctly the same as one of mine
good luck anyhoo!!

 

[pippoodle]

I would say possibly female plakat - definately not a CT - not enough ct finnage - could be a HM line female - but would need to know how many ray extensions she has

give her time to settle in (2 weeks) and then add a male in to the tank - keeping female in chimney and out of the way - after a few days she should get breeding stripes and start to egg up if she is a girl if not she is a he and a young PK

wouldn't say its a young male VT - wrong tail

here's a 7 week old vt

and most fish in lfs are at least 3-4 months old

here's a 5 month old female VT

 

[Luke_emma_23]

she looks like a girl, think i can see the white breeding tube, had a bit of trouble in my sorority when 2 of them turned out to be boys, have spent alot of time looking at bettas bums!!!

 

[StrontiumDog]

she looks like a female
hasn't got the fin extension of a male and has stress lines in first pic

she looks like a girl, think i can see the white breeding tube

Thats whats I was thinking and, if you look closer at the pelvic fins in the last pic, you can just see a bit white
just behind them.

As to the type i'm still not sure, because the dorsal fin looks to me like a VT. I've browsed through 100's of pic
of plakat's and they seem to be longer down the body and rounder.

It maybe that she's a cross between two VT and something else, i'll just have to watch her grow and maybe
she'll answer the question later.

 

[lilacamy931]

I couldnt help, but very very cute!

 

[StrontiumDog]

I’m 99% sure it’s a female, because my male keeps coming up to her and showing off. He has never built a bubble nest before, so he’d better start bucking his ideas up I can vaguely see horizontal stripes on her, I’ll try and get a pic's as soon as I can.

 

[Assaye]

Pretty sure it's female. I can see an ovispot in front of the anal fin, and males don't tend to show stress stripes as readily as females