These are my babies!

[Betta*b*Happy!]

Hi all,

Seeing as I'm new here i thought i'd post pics of my babies!

I would like your help please. I know my male is a veil tail but i wouldn't know how to describe his colouring? any ideas??

This is Red he was my first betta. He's really wimpish!
(sorry if the pics are big - don't know how to make them smaller)

And this is my female. Her fins are a bit raggy from the LFS. How would i describe her? The pic doesn't show it but the tips of her fins are slightly pink.

Thanks for looking!

 

[xxSarahxx]

Spyro - male
Dame - female

 

[Naughtygirlrlw]

Beautiful fish! Your lil' girl is so cute! I like Opal for her

 

[Betta*b*Happy!]

Thanks for the names guys! Opal it is then!

What colouration would you say they both are?

Also is my female a veiltail? (if she is indeed a female and I've not been taken for a fool at my lfs! lol)

 

[Andie]

That's either a reflection off a conveniently placed scale on her tummy, or an oviposter; my money's on female atm

 

[-*-MicHAeL-*-]

and great bettas

 

[Betta*b*Happy!]

Ah so that is what an ovipositor would look like then!

Phew!

I have done some research and would say that my male is your common multicolour veil tail and my female is a blue cambodian.

Would you agree?

 

[Andie]

I'd guess that your lovely girl is more likely a pastel. In that picture she seems to have a fair amount of blue pigment visible on her body, and from what I've seen blue cambodians generally don't; their bodies tend to be entirely white.

ETA: More information on blue cambodians can be found here.

 

[MegTheFish]

Thats not a female, its a male! I'm sure of it! Look at its caudal fin, see how its droopy? It looks like it was long at one point, but maybe he got into a fight or whatnot. And I know you can't tell what gender a betta is by their body shape, but I'm positive that it has the body shape of a male...its just something about it that makes it a male. But I guess the only way you'll find out is if its fins start growing.

 

[Andie]

I would still shy away from making a 100% positive ID on either side, really, because females can have surprisingly long fins at times. I do know what Meg means by having the "shape" of a male, since he/she doesn't appear to be carrying any eggs right now, but I still lean toward female because that looks a lot like an oviposter to me ->

 

[Betta*b*Happy!]

I hope she's a female, she was sold to me as one and was in a community tank of about 15 others so I'm assuming she is.

Thing is I don't really trust the fish store i got her from. They keep very overstocked tanks and male bettas in tiny jares about the size of my hand. Then today I heard an assistant saying to a customer 'yeah this test result means you have some ammonia in the water. how long have you had water in the tank? a week? ok you can start putting fish in now' OOh i was sooo angry!

 

[WILDER]

There lovely, i prefer female betta's to males, how many females can you keep together.

 

[Betta*b*Happy!]

There lovely, i prefer female betta's to males, how many females can you keep together.

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I think they say more than 3 but I'm not sure about the upper limit!

 

[Synirr]

You can keep between 4 and 6 female bettas together in a 10 gallon (nothing smaller,) but how many you can keep together is only limited by tank size