Finally...Pics!

They finally decided to calm down enough (only every once in a while though ) to let me get some pics. Okay, I bribed them...I put some brine shrimp on the bottom so they would search, eat, and be still enough for the camera

The male
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The girl
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Brother & Sister
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Nice plants in there... a real natural look for them.

what kind of plant on the left side of brother and sister picture? thanks

Beautiful Beta's. You planning on spawning bro & sis. Both of their colors and patterns are stunning. They would have some awesome offspring.

Paintguy wrote:Nice plants in there... a real natural look for them.

Live plants are the only way to go

cuashidor3 wrote:what kind of plant on the left side of brother and sister picture? thanks

Argentine sword.

madness wrote:Beautiful Beta's. You planning on spawning bro & sis. Both of
their colors and patterns are stunning. They would have some awesome
offspring.

So many people want me to but I don't have the money or space for it right now.

So, people freak out about creating hybrids, but inbreeding siblings is okay? I don't understand people sometimes.

Fyurae wrote:So, people freak out about creating hybrids, but inbreeding siblings is okay? I don't understand people sometimes.

Actually with bettas, and other fish as well, breeding siblings is very common. They do it in the wild quite often. It all has to do with breeding certain traits. With hybrids, some people don't like mixing bloodlines from 2 different species of fish. Just like mixing a tiger and lion, some people just don't agree with it. If 2 siblings have a desirable trait is is okay to breed them, as long as you don't do it generation after generation.

You can safely breed a male dog with his mother.

I hear.

Kaie wrote:You can safely breed a male dog with his mother.

I hear.

With almost any animal you can safely inbreed a generation or two.

Stunning bettas! Are they thai imports?

As far as inbreeding, it takes alot of it to do damage in most animals...

Jacko wrote:Stunning bettas! Are they thai imports?

As far as inbreeding, it takes alot of it to do damage in most animals...

Their parents are, but these are from PA.

Everyone is so happy I added 2 hillstream loaches to the tank and they love hanging out on the driftwood. I adjusted the filter flow too so they have flowing water but it doesn't disturb the bettas because of the size of the tank. They're usually hidden until later in the day and then they swim around and munch on the algae and the little micro-organisms

Tank again
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1 out of 4 of the frogs
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2 our of 4 of the frogs
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Dante wondering why I'm taking pics again
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"At least get my good side..."
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"Oh hi there neighbor"
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Nona actually being still enough for a photo
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She's getting so silvery!
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I had to zoom in so the pic is crappy...one of the loaches guarding his wood
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