The most beautiful Betta

[LizStreithorst]

I was in my LPS today and saw the most beautiful Beta I have ever seen. He's a crown tail. He has a silver blue body, Blood red fins and head, with silver blue outlining the dorsal and anal. I put him in the 100 gal planted Discus tank in the fish room. This guy is already perfectly at home. When I put him in he headed straight to the back of the tank where he hid in the jungle val. In just a few hours he was exploring, and now he is swimming in the front of the tank with the Discus with total impunity. As well as being beautiful he's gutsy.

[jeep]

Cool! I used to have a Betta named Warren, lol... He used to ride on the back of a really big snail until the snail caught a ride in the circulation from the bubble wall and floated to the bottom. Then Warren would meet him and it would start all over again

[coralbandit]

I received 5 alien bettas today ! Well 6 but one was DOA ..
On topic huh ??
All gifts of my Hawaiian buddy , but since 'his wife' claimed the blues he called in a favor from a friend for me ..
He sent me a pair of green and a mixed color pair [I have no clue betta terms ?] .The male green did not make the trip as they were due to arrive Monday and got here today .
The favor was to have a friend of his Joel Fernandez send me a pair of triple A blues ..They are outstanding ! Joel is a trans shipper and speaks at fish expos and such on bettas ..I am told the fish he sent me are big bucks !
Tom is like that when he finds good fish .He had me send a friend of his a pair of darks express on him ! We ship fish back and fourth just to get better lines and fish not available to each of us .His aliens came from a local Hawaiian LFS .Both his and Joels were recent imports from Thailand ..They say these are the hottest betta ! They crossed 2 wilds I think but again I don't know much about them yet ..Lucky you don't always need to know much to breed them ..
My reading on these guys say they are the friendly betta !
Tom in Hawaii said his have been building nest already since arriving ..
https://www.aquariumglaser.de/en/fis...d-alien-green/

[Second Hand Pat]

Liz and Tom, you both definitely need to post pics of your bettas. Those Alien Greens are to die for Tom and Liz, yours sounds gorgeous.
Pat

[LizStreithorst]

Tom, the Aliens are amazing. I have never seen anything like them.

[coralbandit]

Tom, the Aliens are amazing. I have never seen anything like them.

I am in no way a betta guy or Mr.fish ,but yea Liz .^^ THAT^^
I know about nothing on these guys but here we are !
I will admit with some reluctance I like expensive fish !

I am not sure I would have bought them and I have not seen females in my area at all .
My newest LFS had 6 Aliens last night when I went in search of a green male ..They did not have one and they were asking $60 a pop for these little guys ~

[LizStreithorst]

I used to spend a fortune of expensive Discus before I had to quit working.

As for my guy, I'm afraid that swimming among the Discus with impunity has it's down side. I see him nowhere this morning. Last night the Discus were totally ignoring him. I guess after lights out they went into hunting mode. I did notice a few weeks ago that after ignoring red shrimp to the point that I was building a colony of them in their tank, their were becoming fewer and fewer of them over time. I watched them after lights out one night and saw one Discus in particular snagging some shrimp that were sleeping on the matten filter. If they ate a betta I guess I don't have to worry about them getting enough live food.

[LizStreithorst]

Ha! I spoke too soon. I just went down again and there he was swimming in the front of the tank. I'll do my best to get a good pic today.

[Second Hand Pat]

Ha! I spoke too soon. I just went down again and there he was swimming in the front of the tank. I'll do my best to get a good pic today.

[LizStreithorst]

This one shows him pretty well.

[coralbandit]

Here's the blues from Joel yesterday when they arrived ;

^^ Just kidding !^^ not really

^^male ^^

^^ female^^

This picture show the total amount of water from both bags !


They were eating within 1 minute in tank !
They are much bluer today !


^^Male^^

^^Female^^

^^Female^^

[coralbandit]

Here's the Multicolor ?

^^Male^^

^^Male^^

^&^The pair female top right ^^
I take lousy pictures which is why we usually listen to music while Video !
They are really awesome looking fish ..

[Pices]

Oh that alien blue! I am getting a little overrun with cherry shrimps.....
Patty

[RogueDiscus]

Very nice bettas. After the live bearers, they were one of the first fish I bred as a kid. There are so many beautiful strains these days.

I just sold probably close to 1000 cherry shrimp of all sizes to a nearby aquarium supply store. $40. Probably a near giveaway, but OK by me.

Steve

[LizStreithorst]

Don't you feed them to your larger fish, Steve?