Please help betta fish 4ray crown tail.......?

Question

is a double double ray crowntail expensive?? i have a female which is a double double ray crowntail, when i bought her she was not colorful she did not "show of" her fins and she looks like a cheap betta thats why the owner of the pet store offered me a low price for her, her color was dull then, he did'nt even know that she was a double double ray he only told me she was a crowntail thats all, after i took her back in the house i fed her good food not commercial foods, live foods then for a week her body "bloomed" and she did get big i mean not fat but she did gain some length, is it abnormal? my male betta fish did not grew that fast.. and can i breed her with a half moon betta male? her color is metalic green that sometimes turns to metallic blue (body) and her head is black and the rays are red and the color in between is a metalic green that sometime turns to a metallic blue.. please help...

Answer 1

Congrats on the good find. DDR crowntails are usually more expensive than the average crowntail, and I'm glad that she's in a new home where she's being taken care of well enough to develop like this. It's not abnormal for a fish to get bigger like that when in a much better environment than a pet store; it might mean that she was young when you bought her, or that with the good care she's receiving, she's able to reach her full potential.

As for breeding, you can cross any two bettas, regardless of finnage, provided their temperaments will allow them to get close enough to breed. However, for the sake of nice genetics, I'd suggest sticking to a crowntail males so as not to make her children mutts. Crossing the two is possible, and if you're breeding them casually it won't matter. If you want to go commercial, however, mixing genes like that won't give you much income; you'll have pet store quality bettas, not specialty store bettas, as far as looks go.

She does sound beautiful though, so good luck with her :-)

Answer 2

DD ray CTs are not expensive, and in fact, can be found at Petco or other petstores on a fairly regular basis. As far as growth is concerned, she was probably a juvenile, and yes, juvies grow FAST with proper care and food. If you breed her with a halfmoon, you'll get 'combtails'. Some people have been trying to get halfsuns (halfmoon crowntails), but you rarely find them for sale, as they're very hard to breed for because of all the different variables in the halfmoon trait, as well as the difficulty level in raising perfect crowntails themselves.