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So you want to raise bigger looking bettas, huh? Here’s a few tips on how to do it. First and most important of all, provided a constant supply of good quality food. This applys to all types of creatures, a constant supply of good food means more nutrition and thus giving it a chance to grow bigger. Next, change the water regularly, make sure that the water conditions are optimum. A cleaner living environment prevents the fish from getting sick. Now the third trick to growing bigger bettas relate to exercise. I find that keeping my bettas in a small tank that has a little water current almost always result in growing bigger bettas. My guess is that in order to stay in one place, the bettas will have to fight the current. In this process, it is actually exercising and we all know what exercising does to a body (look at Arnold’s body from The Terminator!). However, make sure that the water current is not too strong and make sure you provide some resting place for the bettas (a piece of PVC pipe works well) in case they get too tired. One side effect (maybe a good side effect) from this is that when the current is absent, the betta will look as if it’s flaring with all its fins open to the maximum.

This guy is a black orange dragon plakat male betta. I love his scales!

This spotlight features a white platinum halfmoon male. He has a shimering white color  that looks silver.

This male betta is a copper crowntail beta fish. He has both a green-like copper and a redish copper color on him.

Here is a very unique fish, this is a female crowntail (CTF). She is orange and has double rays (DR).

The betta fish I’m spotlighting today is a blue and white butterfly delta male.

A piebald betta is nothing more than a marble betta, but with the head having a flesh like color. The color of the rest of the body is not important for a betta to be classified as a piebald.

Below is a picture of a tomahawk betta. He is a piebald black and white marble male siamese fighting fish. He has some red wash, but that’s what makes him so great. The red wash gives the appearence of blood.

Here’s a trick to help wean your betta frys to dried food such as flake food. First, get a few baby guppies (these should be the same size as the frys or smaller than the frys) and place them in the tank containing the betta frys. Guppies feed on almost anything offered to them and so when the betta frys see the guppies eating the dried food offered, they’ll follow quickly.

I’ve also noted that betta fry seem to grow much faster with a few guppie fry in the tank. They must feel like they have to compete with the guppy fry.

Don’t worry about the baby guppies bothering your beta fry – they are way to small to do any damage.

As a follow up to my previous post about the snowflake brothers I have a beautiful picture of the pretty snowflake sister. She is from the same spawn and has the same colour pattern as the other three brothers. Just like them she has black and white colors.

Here are three crowntails bettas. The first guys fins look slightly feathered. All three of these males have both black and white spotted patterns. I present to you the snowflake brothers:

Here is a tricolor butterfly male betta. He is red, blue, and white. And this beta fish is a halfmoon.

Featured here is a yellow pearl butterfly over half moon male betta.

Aquascaping is a form of art in your fishtank. You carefully arrange gravel, soil, plants, and just about anything that can go into a fish tank in such a way that your aquarium becomes a magnificent piece of eyecandy. Betta fish absolutly love to live in aquariums with live plants, not to mention how good it is for your tank in general. Here are a few ideas for you. The following designs are by Takashi Amano and you can find more of his work here.

In my last post I talked about giving your fish a three room condo – allowing him to swim from one bowl to another. How about letting your betta swim from one room in your house to another room! Building a fish highway will allow you to do this. The one pictured below is made of acrylic plastic. It goes from one tank in the room all the way up to the ceiling and then into another tank on the other side of the room. Check out fishighway.com for more information and more pictures.