Keeping Fish

[Shellybean02]

You guys have gorgeous bettas^-^
Just as a heads up though, Axolotl, rose tails(excessive branching in the rays giving a ruffled appearance) usually have bad genetics. Some info about them: the excessive branching makes their fins heavy, and they were created while trying to produce a beautiful over halfmoon. The breeding went wrong creating these gorgeous, but usually unhealthy fish. I hope you're lucky and have a mild rose tail, because my sensitive boy Orlando(a short feather tail) passed away not too long ago Another picture of your boy's fins in full flare will help determine if he is good. Some signs of unhealthy rose/feather tails: extreme branching in the tail rays, collapsed/damaged fins over time, acting sick, pale body color, and crooked scales. Though people get lucky and end up with a healthy rose tail that lives a long, healthy life. I hope your betta applies to the lucky category. If you open the gallery for this thread, Orlando is the purple bodied, red finned feather tail. Here are some rose and feather tails(I take no credit for any of the following pictures)
feather tail: 14xf3ix.jpg (494×446) rose tail: 6c0bc3ba3cec8906f261b14a9fd398c3.jpg (640×556) female rose tail: BT040904-8wkMetallicblueRTHMa.jpg (400×400)

 

[AxolotlLove]

You guys have gorgeous bettas^-^
Just as a heads up though, Axolotl, rose tails(excessive branching in the rays giving a ruffled appearance) usually have bad genetics. Some info about them: the excessive branching makes their fins heavy, and they were created while trying to produce a beautiful over halfmoon. The breeding went wrong creating these gorgeous, but usually unhealthy fish. I hope you're lucky and have a mild rose tail, because my sensitive boy Orlando(a short feather tail) passed away not too long ago Another picture of your boy's fins in full flare will help determine if he is good. Some signs of unhealthy rose/feather tails: extreme branching in the tail rays, collapsed/damaged fins over time, acting sick, pale body color, and crooked scales. Though people get lucky and end up with a healthy rose tail that lives a long, healthy life. I hope your betta applies to the lucky category. If you open the gallery for this thread, Orlando is the purple bodied, red finned feather tail. Here are some rose and feather tails(I take no credit for any of the following pictures)
feather tail: 14xf3ix.jpg (494×446)  rose tail: 6c0bc3ba3cec8906f261b14a9fd398c3.jpg (640×556) female rose tail: BT040904-8wkMetallicblueRTHMa.jpg (400×400)

Yes, Galaxy has some trouble swimming, i have put a tree in his tank and he gets support from this. I have only had him for 1 day, and I've been watching him. He seems to be very healthy, here are some photos.

Here is my veil tail, Huckleberry

 

[LeafBlade12345]

Yes, Galaxy has some trouble swimming, i have put a tree in his tank and he gets support from this. I have only had him for 1 day, and I've been watching him. He seems to be very healthy, here are some photos.

Here is my veil tail, Huckleberry

Beautiful fish. I've been working on transforming my eighteen gallon hobby tank into a live bearer tank. I have three fry right now, a Molly and two guppies to start off the tank. I'm buying more stock soon. I had to cull of much of the tank to accommodate new arrivals and coming fry, so, sadly, it looks pretty bare. But it won't stay that way!

Regards,
Leaf

 

[AxolotlLove]

Ah yes, a few of my tetras passed and my tank was looking a little bear with only one tetra, three glass fish, a white goldfish (she lives in my tropical tank, she's been living there for 3 years because she got attacked in the goldfish tank and has a lot of missingscales) a mixed fish and a plecto, so I added some live plants and a few other fish and it looks much better!

 

[Shellybean02]

Is his tail split in two parts? It looks like he might be a doubletail halfmoon, but if he has the symptoms of being a rosetail he might be a cross with that. As long as you make things easy for him, he'll be fine. Keep us updated

Huckleberry is very pretty by the way!
To experienced betta breeders: is it necessary for me to set up another tank just for raising fry? Or can I spawn my bettas and raise the fry in a container of some sort, with frequent water changes?
And does anyone have experience with fin damage/fin rot? My new betta(Cleo) is doing okay in the treatment cup after an attack from Jane Doe, but her fins have white tissue at the ends, and my phone's flashlight reveals little black dots on her tail. I'm hoping she has regrowth and isn't developing fin rot. I wish I could upload pictures, but my phone...

 

[AxolotlLove]

Is his tail split in two parts? It looks like he might be a doubletail halfmoon, but if he has the symptoms of being a rosetail he might be a cross with that. As long as you make things easy for him, he'll be fine. Keep us updated Huckleberry is very pretty by the way!
To experienced betta breeders: is it necessary for me to set up another tank just for raising fry? Or can I spawn my bettas and raise the fry in a container of some sort, with frequent water changes?
And does anyone have experience with fin damage/fin rot? My new betta(Cleo) is doing okay in the treatment cup after an attack from Jane Doe, but her fins have white tissue at the ends, and my phone's flashlight reveals little black dots on her tail. I'm hoping she has regrowth and isn't developing fin rot. I wish I could upload pictures, but my phone...:/

I was thinking he was a double tail Halfmoon, he does have trouble swimming though I'll look at his tail closely tonight. He's a very strange boy! Huckleberry actually was from walmart, I found him on the ground. I've had him 4 years and he's very tame. Galaxy is still a bit shy.

 

[AxolotlLove]

Is his tail split in two parts? It looks like he might be a doubletail halfmoon, but if he has the symptoms of being a rosetail he might be a cross with that. As long as you make things easy for him, he'll be fine. Keep us updated Huckleberry is very pretty by the way!
To experienced betta breeders: is it necessary for me to set up another tank just for raising fry? Or can I spawn my bettas and raise the fry in a container of some sort, with frequent water changes?
And does anyone have experience with fin damage/fin rot? My new betta(Cleo) is doing okay in the treatment cup after an attack from Jane Doe, but her fins have white tissue at the ends, and my phone's flashlight reveals little black dots on her tail. I'm hoping she has regrowth and isn't developing fin rot. I wish I could upload pictures, but my phone...:/

Yes I had a betta with fin rot, (Huckleberry) he grew white tissue in the ends of his fin. The white on him eventually turned red and he's now fine. I didn't treat him with anything, didn't want to risk overdose. My other betta with fin rot (R.I.P. Marvin a red veil tail) grew white on the ends of his fins, but his fins eventually split in 2 and faded grey. Very sad, but he was another walmart rescue and he'd lived a good 5 year life

 

[Shellybean02]

Maybe he has trouble swimming because of his big fins. I know that double tails have big fins in general, and double the tail. That's a lot of weight to carry

If you have a filter running, maybe the flow is giving him a hard time as well. I'm sorry about Marvin, sounds like he had a long happy life with you

*hugs*
I'll assume that she has regrowth, and if she doesn't heal I'll have to treat her for infection. She's doing fine besides that though.

 

[AxolotlLove]

I don't have a filter running because of his tail, I'm thinking of redoing his tank so he has more room to swim. My aunt has a betta and she has got a large bowl with a plant in it, she changes the water every other day. I may do that because his tank is taking up a lot of my desk space and I think he gets stuck in the rocks at the bottom

 

[LeafBlade12345]

My female halfmoon is full with eggs, but no bubble nest from the male. Does she require one to drop the eggs? I'm not too interested in hatching them, so I'm fine if they do not hatch. Will she damage her insides by withholding her eggs? Thank you!

Regards,
Leaf