I want a girl! What am I looking for? Or not looking for? lol
2007-06-07 07:45:02 · 8 answers · asked by Sushi 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
You can most likely go to a pet store and ask for a female. They are usually kept in tanks together. A female Betta has shorter fins than the males. Here is a picture of a female
http://freshaquarium.about.com/od/fishphotos/ss/bettatour01_7.htm
http://freshaquarium.about.com/od/fishphotos/ss/bettatour01_3.htm
And a site that has pictures of both sexes...http://www.oneworldinternetcafe.com/betta/
EDIT* Females are not gray. Females can be just as beautiful as males they just have shorter fins.
2007-06-07 07:53:57 · answer #1 · answered by LuvinLife 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
See this link: http://www.flippersandfins.net/faq.htm#malefemale
People who think females aren't as colorful haven't see any of the recent ones in the hobby. Fins are shorter than a males, but there are short-finned males (called plakats) that can be mistaken for a female, even by breeders if they don't look carefully. Take a couple of the characteristics mentioned in the website (except for the vertical striping, this you should only see in a female ready to spawn) and if they all point to female, that's probably what you're seeing.
2007-06-07 18:40:23 · answer #2 · answered by copperhead 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The females have short fins and will live together. The males are more colorful fins and fight other males. Goto a local pet shop, look in the aquariums for bettas and find a tank with several short finned bettas. These are females.
2007-06-07 14:50:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Short finned fish with a slimer, pointed head. Be careful some shops will have plakats on display and it is hard to tell the apart, plakats (short finned males) have a bullish, pug face
2007-06-07 15:37:17 · answer #4 · answered by basilb101 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its very easy. The males have long fins, and more color. The females don't have as much of a brilliant color, and the fins are not as large.
2007-06-07 20:13:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The girls are plain, with short fins.
Boys are brighter and have long, floaty fins.
Unless you're going to a pond in China, you should ask someone at your pet shop where the females are. After they mate, fighting fish...well, fight. So they're seperated unless they are being bred.
2007-06-07 14:50:25 · answer #6 · answered by Ariel 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The males are more colorful, bigger, and have fuller, longer fins. The females are just puny and kind of ugly.
2007-06-07 14:49:23 · answer #7 · answered by Capricorn 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Males have much longer fins.
Males are much nicer, why would you want a female?
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2007-06-07 15:23:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋