Smaragdina Pic

[starrynightxxi]

Smyke the Smaragdina​

 

[Heather.]

Beautiful ..

 

[kewskills]

That has lovely colours a real stunner

 

[Bubblenester]

Gorgeous boy!

 

[PoptartShop]

Gorgeous stunner.
I love his coloring.

 

[MermaidMel]

Wow!

 

[dmarie04]

Do you just have the one?
He's sexy! LOL

 

[*Bethie*]

Oh, he GORGEOUS! I love the colors!

*Bethie*

 

[DarkEntity]

Nice Imbellis

 

[starrynightxxi]

as far as I can tell, DarkEntity, it is in fact smaragdina, not imbellis, but thanks

thanks guys. and yes, just the one. the folks who sent him to the importer keep sending male-only shipments. the only females they're sending are mislabeled males, so not very useful.

 

[E3ramirez]

looks good

 

[millym]

amazing colours, lovely

 

[lljdma06]

He is very lovely. I really much prefer wild coloration and shorter fins in bettas now. Much more interesting to look at, and their fins hold up much better than the long-finned variants. They show their age much less. I guess carrying a ginormous tail would age you a bit.

Great Smaragdina. Do you have the details of your setup?

llj

 

[exilemalc]

wow he's a beaut

 

[starrynightxxi]

nothing special on the setup. I am not trying to breed so the water chemistry is less important. Currently he is living in a half-filled ten gallon, because the spare heater I have is only for 2-5 gallons (the 10g heater is keeping baby cichlids warm). When I have some more cash on hand he'll be getting upgraded to something bit more appropriate, but he seems content enough, he builds inch-high bubblenests

I very much prefer the short finned variants to the long finned, but as to wild vs domestic colors, i'm not as picky. though i must say, show me a blue marble DTPK and I'm in love