Please critique him

[xShainax]

I don't have a bank account or job yet, so it's kind of hard to make one. xD

[indjo]

If you want to keep the red dragon feature, you have to breed to another red dragon or something from that line. Chard's females looks great. Try to find a female with smaller ventrals and good fin overall.

[Hadoken Kitty]

I agree with what everyone else said. However, I don't agree with your statement about not breeding just because someone else tells you not to. The only time I can think this would apply is to my silliness is wanting to breed a rosetail, which I no longer want to do. He's a beautiful fish, so I'm not sure how he couldn't be breeding material.

[xShainax]

He is a pet store fish, that's why I was hesitant

[Chard56]

I have on hand usually in the neighborhood of 2,000 Bettas. I have never in the last 5 plus years that I've gotten back into breeding and raising Bettas bought one single Betta outside of a Fish/Pet store. Although some of my lines are 8 to 10 generations (not inbred or line breeding) they are from the original Betta from Wal-mart or Petco or Petsmart. The Red Dragons I have are Halfmoon and breeding him with one will result in longfin dominating over shortfin in F-1 or the first generation. You will get a percentage of shortfin Halfmoons amd Traditional Plakats back in F-2. This is a picture of what I can do with pet store Bettas. As nicely as he looks now at 2 and a half months old he'll be going to the show next month. (My avatar is 7th generation originally from a Petco Yellow BFHM.)

[xShainax]

When I do breed him in maybe 6 months or so, I know he will be a good nest builder. His nest is maybe 5" long and wide

[Hadoken Kitty]

LOL. Hey, if my rosetail male wasn't rosetail, he'd be one heck of a daddy. He tends to his bubble nest all day, every day. Even though he hasn't been with a girly.

[MattsBettas]

Six months is a long time for a pet store betta, just because he could be 1.5 years old by then. But honestly, I see no issues with breeding pet store bettas as long as they are healthy and active. Sena hansler breeds mainly pet store bettas!

[valen1014]

Originally Posted by Hadoken Kitty

LOL. Hey, if my rosetail male wasn't rosetail, he'd be one heck of a daddy. He tends to his bubble nest all day, every day. Even though he hasn't been with a girly.

What's the problem with rosetails? Too heavy fins?

[xShainax]

I was thinking all last night, what if I tried creating my own line of CTPK's?