Not your average bettas and gouramis- my wish list

[black_knight]

Wish...



P. ornaticuada. B. hendra

[ptran]

Those are stunning. Wild betta?

[Beth777]

Beautiful! I'd definitely take some of those.

[Brandon O'Brian]

Don at ADG had some Betta hendra a few months ago. They were nice.

[black_knight]

I may need to give Don a ring on the hendra. The first pic is Parosphromenus orinaticuada it's a type of licorice gourami. They get slightly above an inch, sometimes less. They get that fluorescent pink and black when males are in breeding or dominant color. I use to have several species. They will eat only live foods and have to be weaned to blood worms and frozen. Do better in groups. I use to keep them in RO. Best with pH 6 or below. They are cave spawners. The Betta hendra and those in the coccina complex are not to fussy. They do well on freeze dried blood worms and high protein foods ( cave spawners but there are reports of alternative paternal mouth brooding). Unlike the big mouth brooders and the little mouth brooding bettas they don't like current very much.

[Brandon O'Brian]

I also used to keep licorice gouramis. I also kept Betta uberis, which is also in the coccina complex. Betta uberis is also my favorite betta species.

[black_knight]

In the coccina complex Persephone and hendra are my favorites. But albimarginata is my favorite Betta species. I was going to order some Persephone females from the wet spot this week, but they just emailed me back that their lot got sick and are in quarantine.

[black_knight]

I tried to start a group once dedicated to labrinyth fish. It's a very broad group sizes ranging from the giant gouramis to parasphaerichthys lineatus (barely 1/2 inch). There the paradise fish/Chinese Betta ( macropodus) and in Africa you have the Ctenopomas- bushfish. Some throw badis and darios in the mix. They can give cichlids a run for their money in variety and colors.