can a plakat male and crowntail female betta breed

[niconoel09]

if they breed what will they look like

[Sena Hansler]

Of course they can breed! If anything short finned CT is what you will get. Not sure if it would be f1 or f2 you get half-suns.

[Spazzfish]

It would be a bit of a mess for the first few generations...

[Anitax3x]

+1 spazzfish

Unless you have along term goal and decide to cull super hard. you are wasting time. Most people want fish with nice fins, and the ctpk takes a while to get to. Personally I'd like to try it but I think it would take a more skilled breeder.

[Sena Hansler]

If you want to try go ahead...

But a good tip from me to you...

Ask around. If you have say...5-80 babies... Who will buy or adopt them? Keep the buyer in mind. I would live to breed plakat but there are few who want them so I would have to cull or ship across canada to find good homes. I know crowntail, halfmoon and delta are wanted. Colors too are important... Make sure to get decent to high quality bettas to breed =D makes it easier on you!!

[Fabian]

I just bred a male pk to a female pk.The eggs hatch last Saturday.Not sure what type of tail will it produce yet.

[Sena Hansler]

Pk to pk? Probably pk also depending on the line.

[Anitax3x]

Bettysplendens.com

Genetics. Read it.

[teeneythebetta]

Originally Posted by Anitax3x

+1 spazzfish

Unless you have along term goal and decide to cull super hard. you are wasting time. Most people want fish with nice fins, and the ctpk takes a while to get to. Personally I'd like to try it but I think it would take a more skilled breeder.

+1 there's a lot more to it than throwing a male & female together. If you don't know exactly what you're doing it can & will end in disaster.

[Anitax3x]

I've seen some beautiful pictures of ctpk though, and it really makes me want to try, but I have the feeling it will mean culling entire spawns save a couple. Thats alot of resources and money used to raise only a couple fish, so that I can breed them back to mommy or daddy in order to get what I want.

Maybe when I have more than one spawn going at a time I will be able to try doing that. **** plans over in the corner