Siamese Fighter/Betta
Common name(s)
Siamese Fighter, Siamese Fighting Fish, Betta ...
The female Siamese Fighter is smaller, and duller in color her mate. Their fins are are also considerably shorter, but they do have similar coloration patterns as the male. Oftentimes, the female will have mild striping along the sides of her body.
The tank has 2 Silver sharks (Bruce and Anchor), 5 Tiger Barbs, 12 Neons, 10 assorted guppies, 1 Ghost, 1 Catfish (called fang), 4 Tetras, 1 Siamese fighter (called Bloke), 2 Angel fish, ...
No discussion on anabantids is complete without touching on the Betta splendens or the Siamese fighter.
When the Malta Aquarist Society was first set up in 1970, its emblem showed a Siamese fighter (Betta splendens). A few years later, I moved a proposal that on our emblem, we should have an Aphanius fasciatus. This was carried out unanimously.
It's not a great idea to put a siamese fighter in with gouramis because they tend to nip at their long fins. The second problem is kissing gouramis tend to be semi-aggressive and dwarf gouramis aren`t, so the dwarf could get hurt. ... Robert ...
(aka Siamese fighter) These are both extremely forgiving for the initial tank set up. Once you get a tank with these going, you'll know much better what to do to keep the less hardy types of fish.
When the Siamese Fighters are spawning, there are torn fins, missing scales, bloody lips, and a female, although badly battered, which will predate her own eggs, eating them right out of the bubblenest.
The scheduled 10 classes comprised of 3 classes for furnished aquaria (Individual Tropical, Ladies Tropical and Coldwater), Siamese Fighters, A.O.V.
me to get one of these after I started to get black hair algae, and I was amazed when after just a few days it had really gone to town on the stuff. It was in my tank with about 15 zebra danios, 2 large angels, a panda cory, a female siamese fighter ...
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