Giant betta

[Darylb]

I went to my LFS last week and they had a giant simease fighting fish he was about 3 1/2 inches long and looked beautiful the owner gave him to the store and he is that nice they aren't going to sell him he is in a massive display tank jist wondering if anyone else has ever had one the guy at the store said there super rare these days

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

You should of taken a picture

 

[Autumnsky]

Petco sometimes has them.

 

[Darylb]

They look awesome guess they might be a bit more rare in Australia haha it was the first one I have ever seen

 

[aquandrew]

king bettas get really big

 

[Darylb]

The guy at the fish store just called it a short fin giant betta

 

[aquandrew]

most kings have pretty short fins were the scales big?

 

[Darylb]

Yea they were

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

Never even heard of a king beta

 

[Jev12]

Yeah I have seen some king bettas at petco that were almost to big for the plastic cup they were in

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

I gotta google this thing lol

 

[Autumnsky]

Petco sells them online.

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

Sweet I gotta get one of these

 

[aquandrew]

yeah ive seen them on aquabid too and the petco near me always has huge black and blue king males for 15 dollars so i dont think they are too rare just gotta know where to look they are very pretty bettas. i thought this video was pretty funny of a turtle and king betta eating a food pellet lol YouTube

 

[bettaowner]

I'm pretty sure king and giant bettas are the same thing. Both are trade names for full grown bettas.

 

[Autumnsky]

I think both terms are referring to the ex-large sized fish not simply a full grown fish but actually a larger type of Betta. Possibly like there are some people who are giant. Thought to be a mutant gene from what I understand.

How ever the genetics work, there are some of these fish which are about 2x (maybe a little less) the normal size adult fish. I have seen these at a couple fish stores but most frequently from Petco.

I try not to look at the Bettas very often because I always want to take them home.

They have a solid blocky looking body and all the ones I have seen have fins shaped very similar like a plakat but a little longer and a little like a veiltail, a little more flow-y, more in the older ones. The older ones I saw at lfs and they were not really for sale at all the places, some were display.

The Petco ones seemed younger.

 

[anand]

Is this is a king? Plz help....bought today....

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[anand]

It is like well grown female and the shopkeeper told its a semi adult or 2 months fry....

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[cooperturner]

Where in aus are you? I'm in sunny coast qld

 

[Darylb]

I'm in Western Australia