Joined
·
10 Posts
I just joined this forum to see and find out about wild type bettas.
I love wild type bettas!
1 - 8 of 8 Posts
Welcome to the forum!! It's great too see more and more people interested in wilds. They really are awesome fish. I have a Betta Hendra pair, Lex and El.
Have you kept any fish before? If yes, we'd love to see pics!!
Have you kept any fish before? If yes, we'd love to see pics!!
Joined
·
10 Posts
Hello, and thanks for the reply!
I have had fish since I was just a few years old. Now I'm very old and still have some! LOL! I was fascinated from the first by Bettas and have always loved their color variations and different finiage.
I'm a bit disappointed that colors that used to be quite normal are now considered exotic and cost 5 times what the veiltails cost, but I guess you could call that progress. LOL! The greens and brown colored bettas with the gold fins were and still are at the top of my list of favorites. I have to say I've been wowed by some of the galaxy colorations also. So this will be a fun experience for me to talk to like minded people!
Yes, I have 2 tanks; a 5 gallon and a 20 gallon. I have an old 26 gallon show tank and a custom made 60 gallon in storage, ready for repair of the 26 and reinforcing the stand of the 60. That is a heavy tank! made with 1/2 glass all the way around, and takes 2 men to carry it.
Right now all the fish I have are oodles of guppys, khuli loaches, a few tetras and 2 algae eaters. The one in the 5 gallon outgrew the tank so I'm going to take him to the local Petco since they will take fish in.
Joined
·
1,539 Posts
Here are links to interesting sites our members created:
Wild Betta Blog
Red Wine Bettas
You can get lost in reading about wilds.
The only better thing is keeping them🤗.
Wild Betta Blog
Red Wine Bettas
You can get lost in reading about wilds.
The only better thing is keeping them🤗.
Joined
·
33 Posts
Hey guys! post some pictures of your wild bettas!
Joined
·
324 Posts
Hi and welcome! Here are some photos of my wilds, they’re a lot of fun. I have 3 different species, Betta mahachaiensis, Betta unimaculata, and Betta edithae.
![Organism Underwater Water Fin Fish]()
![Fin Underwater Fish Marine biology Tail]()
![Plant Grass Fish Underwater Marine biology]()
![Snake Reptile Water Scaled reptile Underwater]()
![Snake Water Underwater Scaled reptile Organism]()
![Underwater Fish Marine biology Fin Tail]()
![Water Fin Organism Underwater Fish]()
![Eye Arthropod Insect Underwater Terrestrial plant]()
![Snake Reptile Scaled reptile Amphibian Serpent]()
![Water Fin Fish Underwater Marine biology]()
Joined
·
10 Posts
I need some. These are gorgeous! Which are the blue/green ones?
And you can keep them together????? Wow!
Joined
·
324 Posts
I’m assuming you mean these guys?
![Water Fin Underwater Fish Marine biology]()
That would be Betta mahachaiensis, or Betta mahachai for short. They are close relatives of your usual betta & in the splendens complex. You can keep pairs together; I also have their offspring with them but those are being removed as they mature. You still need to make sure that there are ample hiding places, that the male isn’t a bully, etc. but yes, pairs can be kept together… Honestly, I love the wild species a lot more than domestic bettas, they’re so much fun and extremely interesting. They can be a lot more robust too.
That would be Betta mahachaiensis, or Betta mahachai for short. They are close relatives of your usual betta & in the splendens complex. You can keep pairs together; I also have their offspring with them but those are being removed as they mature. You still need to make sure that there are ample hiding places, that the male isn’t a bully, etc. but yes, pairs can be kept together… Honestly, I love the wild species a lot more than domestic bettas, they’re so much fun and extremely interesting. They can be a lot more robust too.
1 - 8 of 8 Posts
