Veil Tail Betta Babies

[AnotherWoogie]

I'm planning on breeding my two veil tails, but I wanted to know who would be interested in the babies before I had too many babies with no homes to give them to.


Anyone in the area interested?

[fishlady]

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heck yeah.....i am.....

[dblondfemme]

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*wavin my hands* me me me me

[rrocket2002]

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Can you post pics of what your veils look like?

Thanks

[Tiapan]

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i too would like to see pics,

[AnotherWoogie]

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Sure. I can't at this second because I'm supposed to be writing a paper and what do you know, I'm on HFB hahaha...anyway, I'll post this later on this afternoon, but just to give you an idea, the male has a redish body with blue fins and the female has a blueish body with red fins :)

I'll definitely get pictures up by this afternoon, though :)

[PhishPhreek]

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Betta Tails
the normal (wild) betta tale is called a plakat and consists of about a dozen rays fanning out from the base of the tail
Veil tail is a dominant mutation that make the rays longer so the betta has a flag like tail
Double Tails have a split in the spine at or just before the base of the tail which produces a two part tail sometimes two of equal size but more often one is larger than the other.
Fan, Delta or Super Delta have a mutation that splits the rays branching out from the tail.
The number of branches 2, 4, 8 affect the spread of the tail like batts in a sail or spokes in a wheel.
Half moon is  a tail that has a wide tail with extra rays and many splits in the rays so that the tail spreads from straight up to straight down making a half circle.
Crown tails have a gap in the webbing between rays creating a fringed effect on the tail.


Betta tail Pix

[loopy119]

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Oh, my favorites are crowntails!!! I actually have a pair that I might spawn sometime soon...when I get brave enough...lol

Rebekah

[AnotherWoogie]

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Thanks phishphreek, these are definitely veils (halfmoons are my favorite, but the bank says I can't invest in those just yet :)) and here are the best pics I could get (they won't stay still when they're right next to each other)


I know this is a bad picture, but you get the idea of what the colors are.


And this is the male in all his glory. Haha.

[MJY6087]

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how much you askin for them if you spawn em?

[AnotherWoogie]

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Probably nothing since this is my first try and I don't think those are two quality fish...are they? Haha.

I may just ask you to come to College Station to pick them up :)

[PhishPhreek]

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Some new breeders I just imported
their fry should be ready for the May betta show,
 Red Halfmoon
 Yellow Halfmoon
 Chocolate Double Crown Tail

[djmatthewblack]

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damn, nice pics, nice fish.  I would love to get some nice bettas like that as community fish.  I never like the ones in the containers.  Red or blue, or some mix.  And I've never seen fins like that.  Yeah, too cool.

[AnotherWoogie]

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dj, who's fish are you talking about?

PhishPhreek...nice fish :)

[AnotherWoogie]

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Well, finally got them to spawn. However, not those two bettas spawned. The female did, but the male could never perform correctly, so he got ditched and put somewhere else.

I unfortunately don't have a picture of the male I put in there who finally did get the job done, but he's got a white body with red and white (almost translucent) fins. He's gorgeous.

They spawned yesterday and so now I'm just keeping a close eye on him as he moves the eggs around and takes care of them.

Anyone have any suggestions or advice or anything? I have BBS growing right now and I also have some microworms to feed the babies.