Lyre Tails!

[iLovededYou]

Does anyone else have a lyre tail? If so, post a picture! I've barely seen any other than my own little boy and I'd like to see what others look like(:

Poseidon

[AngelicScars]

A double tail? I had one awhile back, looked a lot like yours actually.

[iLovededYou]

I was actually told by someone else in a different thread that he's a lyretail and that doubletails don't have a gap between the two caudal fins

[Betta Slave]

They do indeed. Lyretails are completely different, and look like this (couldn't find an actual pic of a betta, they're quite rare)-




Double-tails have a lobed tail, like your boy.

[bettafish15]

Ehh.... he's just a doubletail. I don't know what the person your getting your info from is thinking XD

[iLovededYou]

http://www.bettafish.com/showthread....224#post709224

bettalover2033 says so.
and animallover4lyfe a page back.

[iLovededYou]

http://www.tropicalfish-scotland.com...495/1_bi.jpg?2

this is also labeled as a lyretail for sale online at

http://www.tropicalfish-scotland.com/fish.cfm?pid=1495

[iLovededYou]

but i'll accept that there's no real way to know unless someone is a breeder because i've been told it's a lyretail, but other websites label them as double tails.

[FuulieQ]

I have to say, I'm pretty sure he's a DBT. Look at the photo of the lyretail molly, and look at your boy. Maybe there's a kind of doubletail people like to call lyretail but it's definitely a different phenotype and the mollies called it first I'm afraid. :P

He's really gorgeous, though. I've seen fish like him selling for 40$ on aquabid. :)

[Oldfishlady]

That is a doubletail-two lobes that mirror each other...not a lyretail (the molly pic is a good example).....I breed lots of doubletails for that awesome wide dorsal fin and twin lobes......