In my experience with bettas, the cheaper they are they longer they lived. The really cheap ones seem to be veiltails, which have been around forever so they come from healthier stock, despite being underage in he store. The fancier the betta, the more inbred they are as most of those differences in colors/finnage result from mutations that are bred to each other to build up stock as well as to get them to breed true. Also, because they cost more, I have a feeling the fancier bettas are overbred to keep up demand, since most people are like "ooh... pretty..." when they see the more expensive bettas. As for me, give me an old school veiltail! I had one that was HUGE and he lived to be 5 years old! Which sadly seems to be old for a betta. Most of mine lived 3, 4 years. And these were Petco bettas.
I think there has been a few unofficial studies on this, and from what I've seen, "exotic" Bettas and anything other than veil tails have shorter lives. I've also seen long finned kois live the shortest on average, and that is heavily believed to do thanks to inbreeding.
Great video….i buy my bettas at pet o and have never had an issue with short lives and breed them successfully. I’ve always thought the price difference was due to the harder to get versions such as the koi you showed I’ve seen for upwards of $50 at local fish stores.
At one point in time, I was taking care of around seven different tanks. My collection has slowly deleted due to my fish dying of old age. Five which were betas I had one premium beta. He was $20 and we named him colonel. And the rest were all the “Standard betas” bought as adults. I had two females and two other males, all of which were absolutely gorgeous. All of them lived around 2-3 years. So I don’t think the price range is accurate at all.
Today i bought 2 male betta fish . They were 25% because they been sitting for awhile. I put them in individual tanks . The moss ball cost 15 dollars each fish were 11.24. Each live now in a 2 gallon tanks .ill update in a year. But where i went babies were more expensive than grown bettas
I always purchase the cheap and “ugly” ones because I love giving them a proper home
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In my experience with bettas, the cheaper they are they longer they lived. The really cheap ones seem to be veiltails, which have been around forever so they come from healthier stock, despite being underage in he store. The fancier the betta, the more inbred they are as most of those differences in colors/finnage result from mutations that are bred to each other to build up stock as well as to get them to breed true. Also, because they cost more, I have a feeling the fancier bettas are overbred to keep up demand, since most people are like "ooh... pretty..." when they see the more expensive bettas. As for me, give me an old school veiltail! I had one that was HUGE and he lived to be 5 years old! Which sadly seems to be old for a betta. Most of mine lived 3, 4 years. And these were Petco bettas.
I think there has been a few unofficial studies on this, and from what I've seen, "exotic" Bettas and anything other than veil tails have shorter lives. I've also seen long finned kois live the shortest on average, and that is heavily believed to do thanks to inbreeding.
Yay! I’m so excited to see you posting more Betta fish videos! I binge watch your older Betta videos all the time!
Great video….i buy my bettas at pet o and have never had an issue with short lives and breed them successfully. I’ve always thought the price difference was due to the harder to get versions such as the koi you showed I’ve seen for upwards of $50 at local fish stores.
At one point in time, I was taking care of around seven different tanks. My collection has slowly deleted due to my fish dying of old age. Five which were betas I had one premium beta. He was $20 and we named him colonel. And the rest were all the “Standard betas” bought as adults. I had two females and two other males, all of which were absolutely gorgeous. All of them lived around 2-3 years. So I don’t think the price range is accurate at all.
Today i bought 2 male betta fish . They were 25% because they been sitting for awhile. I put them in individual tanks . The moss ball cost 15 dollars each fish were 11.24. Each live now in a 2 gallon tanks .ill update in a year. But where i went babies were more expensive than grown bettas
Great video
Could you please get another axolotl could you please try again . 🙏🙏🙏🙏😊
What a great video damn girl you did amazing.