Siamese fighting fish (Combattant, Betta)
Distribution: Southeast Asia. Originally produced in fresh water and am hot side India, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia. Common in static and stagnant water.
Name: Siamese fighting fish (Combattant, Betta, Cá chọi, cá thia xiêm, thia lia xiêm)
Family: Belontidae
Length: up to 5-6 cm
Single farming. Eating worms, molluscs armor, insects, food synthesis.
Water temperature: 18 – (25-28) to 32 degrees C.
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Body elongated, flattened side almost rectangular. Located at the mouth muzzle small, slightly oblique. Liner on top of the slope down. The eyes are large, immediate bone slippery. on large scales has, kind of rounded scales. The ventral fins shaped like swords, located in the dorsal half of back then.
Through hybridization breeding, we can create the fish fighting fish have dorsal and anal fins are very large in size, slender. The enclosure can be up to 6.5 cm long.
In nature, the background color of the fish is brown, the still point of the iridescent blue green and lots of red dots, green, blue lined.
Caudal fin and anal fin rays roaring red or brown colored regions separated by a clerk. Kưng fins reddish brown, textured green. red ventral fins, pectoral fins pale.
Female brown bear less pronounced stripes.
Males bred so many color changes than natural, can have blue purple, mix red cyan, purple mixed record, that metallic, pearl gray,rainbow green, dark pink, yellow fedora…
Copyright © Filip V – VietLinh. Source: Ornamental fish – Vo Van Chi, Science and Technology Publishing House, 1993.
