I was at Petco the other day with my boyfriend. We've been slowly collecting beautiful male and female bettas to eventually breed. My little female colony is living with my small dojo loaches right now
Anyway, I started checking the bettas out, and I found the weirdest colored female. I bought her so fast. She is a crown tail and has a totally cellophane/translucent body, but her fins are BRIGHT neon yellow. They literally look.. like the color of a highlighter! It's bizarre! I'll post pictures later.
I've seen yellow bettas in person before, they always look buttery to me though. My new female has fins the color of the little neon fish. I was wondering if this is a rare color?
Yellows of all shades - bright to soft - are normal. It's not as common to see them in stores, but they are around and can usually find them from breeders, all different shades of the yellow
Holy crap she is awesome.
wow, fantastic find. As for breeding. I don't know... I do know with some pet store bettas there needs to be a few lines of a certain concentration color to get the ones you want because pet stores are coming from all kinds of betta backgrounds. But someone here knows more about that.
All of the walmart bettas here have cups only 1/4 full of water and a betta trying to swim around in it or just laying limp. some of them i've seen are really beautiful though. I want to bring a large water bottle and smuggle them to freedom sometimes.
Oh no.. when go in im always checking all the fish and sending pics of there disgusting tanks and poor fish to the head company, (I'm like a secret agent)
For once the color description is close enough to match the live fish.
Definitely haven't seen that color variation before.
Really curious to see if the colors on your fish get more intense once it settles into it's new home.
If bred this fish, you need to choose one with a more recessive gene. I don't think yellow is dominant at all.
If you ever get around to spawning a neon fry out of your crowntail female, I would trade you for one or two of my phoenix orange juvies later this summer.
BTW, how many centimeters long is your neon betta?
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