fin growth

I recently got a new betta fish a while after my old one passed away. I got him from Petco, and his cup read Rose Petal Male. I hear that rose petal bettas are just more-finned versions of Half Moons, but my last half betta was a half moon with much longer fins. How do I know if my betta is...

My male veiltail Ianto Jones is his usual spastic self, but he has something growing on his fin and I'm not sure what to do. He shares a divided 20gal high tank with his brother Captain Jack Harkness, a male plakat. The plakat has no noticeable problems. All of the plants are silk, the anemone...

Hello everyone! When I got home this morning, I noticed that my 2 year old betta had algae growing on the tips of his fins. This was very surprising. Have any of you guys had this happen before? This specific beta has HUGE fins and constantly has problems with them. He always gets pinholes, no...

When I got my bicolor delta tail, Valentino a few months back, he could have easily been mistaken for a plakat or maybe a large female. But even though his fins weren't as long as the other bettas at my LFS, he was cute and sassy and I took him home anyway. Watching him growing and watching his...

hello everyone, please say "hi" to PB! he's a rescue from Petsmart, that's a photo of him the day I brought him home. he is a halfmoon twin tail betta and is a realll trooper. he's getting over his fin rot, cotton mouth, and some GI issues. once he's done receiving treatment for those, I was...

Soo, Emiko is the betta in question. His fins have started growing out longer, so the ends got all longer and pointy, and his top fin grew a lot longer, but now I notice that about every hour his fins are looking smaller, more clamped up, but then i look at him a bit later and they look rather...