Blackie black

Hello everyone,

Hope you guys had a wonderful new year! Got a new addition to my collection, fantastic fish, so I thought I should make a short post to share with you guys.

My Super Black HMPK. Consistent and awesome deportment coupled with his huge finnage is what made me purchase him, enjoy!

Cheers! :)
Bettafanatic aka Walter
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Too eager...

Hi hobbyists around the world,

I might have mentioned before to most of you that due to my prelims and examination in March and May, I had stopped spawning till perhaps, June. However, there were some difficulties on my friends' side regarding the breeding of my White Platiniums. With overwhelming eagerness for my White Platinium line to continue, I spawned a pair of them that I had been keeping, hope they turn out well!

Since the spawning had begun, I figured I might as well launch another project as fry food would take the same effort to produce. Hence, I've managed to cross my Gold HMPK to my White Platinium HMPK female. Not exactly a genetic genius so we shall see what we get in 3months' time. Feel free to enlighten me in the chatbox if you know, or had any experience with this cross.

Another shot of the Gold HMPK, beautiful fish IMO.

However, I doubt I will have the time to jar most of the fries, so we will see how this goes. Will probably cull intensively and jar only the best few.

And here's a great piece of news: I am delighted to inform you guys that my Grand Champion (White Platinium HMPK from Yunfeng Comp Chapter 3) had spawned as well! Will update and hopefully the fries will be looking good.

Adding on, I apologise for the lack of stocks during this period of the year, as always haha. Due to school commitments. Feel free to ask me any questions unanswered by my guides in my chatbox!

Last but not least, here's a picture of a Lavender BF HMPK I decided to keep. Selected from the supplies I got from Thailand some time back, to finish this post off. Some of you might have seen him for sale for a while back then. His sibling is great looking too and for sale cheaply as I am clearing. For more details you may check out the stocklist.

Cheers! :)
Bettafanatic aka Walter
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Good day my friends,

Yet another post to share some of my collections. Really hope you guys enjoy and feel free to comment in the Chatbox.

Firstly, I nickname this the Ice-cream betta, because his fancy colouration is so "milky", kind of like a flavour mix in ice-creams. Hope you guys get what I am getting at, haha. Colour is better seen "live" though, hard to capture with my poor photography skills.

Next, I am very delighted to find this colour once again, was decently available some years back, but when dragons came, they somehow, became "endangered".

This piece is for sale, check out the stocklist. Gold Halfmoon Plakat!

Next, some of you might have seen him for sale for a moment, some time back. I removed him from the stocklist because he attracted me quite a lot as a giant. This piece is about 3inches long, relatively big, but with amazing deportment which is rare in giants. Big spread and flares at my finger, so decided to keep him, haha.

Tricky on the colouration term, lets just call him Metallic Yellow Fancy Giant, enjoy!

Lastly, saving the best for the last, the highly sort after Black Dragon HMPK! Managed to grab a nice one for myself as it is very difficult to find a good black dragon, at least in my opinion. Definitely a candidate for my breeding projects after my exams.

That's all for now, thanks to all of you for the support in Bettafanism and hope you enjoyed reading this post.

Cheers! :)

Bettafanatic aka Walter

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My friend's red army

Hello my friends,

As a betta breeder, one of the most challenging colouration of bettas to breed would be reds in my opinion.

If you work towards colour intensity, you tend to have black scaling problem. And when you attempt to get rid of those, you tend to have pinkish irids on their bodies. Thus, to achieve a red betta of close perfection, is a tedious job of minimising both faults. Not to mention the ongoing need to maintain good finnages in the spawns. It is almost impossible by far to eliminate both issues.

After mentioning all these, I'm happy to share with you guys some bettas bred by my friend, Taufiq. Great job and courage to work on the reds!

And I really love this female!

Also, equally challenging is the Yellows, which faces similiar difficulties in getting the optimal colouration. Which Taufiq worked on too. Impressive finanges.

Hope you guys enjoyed this post sharing of my friend/fellow breeder's spawn. By the way, I will be dropping by his place in probably a few weeks' time to get some for Bettafanism's stocklist. So do drop me an SMS if you are interested in Reds and Yellows too so I can roughly gauge the quantity to bring over. Prices will be about $20-30 each.

Cheers! :)

Bettafanatic aka Walter

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Some new additions

Hi to all betta fans,

Other than being a betta seller, I am myself a betta fanatic as well and hence, do keep a small collection of bettas for my personal viewing.

With this post, I would like to share with you guys 2 of my latest additions, please enjoy!

Firstly, will be this young, little, fiesty Red CT. Very good deportment at such a young age, I really enjoy watching him flare and dart around aggressively. Let's hope he will grow up well. As usual, my photography skills are kind of poor, the fish looks redder "live". Perhaps the ketapang water plays a part to make him paler looking.

As we chatted around, some of you might know that I do not have very much interest in giants. (For those who don't know, giants are much bigger sized bettas developed a couple of years back.) However, this piece captured my attention with his stunning finnage. I do know there are many giants with such impressive finnage around too but the prices are usually very steep. This piece, however, is relatively cheap to me for such a quality.

Lesser of words, and here comes the picture. He is about 2.75 inches in length.

I hope you guys enjoyed this sharing session, which ringed an idea in my head. Perhaps you guys out there reading could share with me some of your collections too! Simply E-mail the pictures to me at lcl.walter@gmail.com and I will find time to compile some of them up into a post someday for all to share.

Cheers! :)

Bettafanatic aka Walter

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The Dragon

Hello Betta Frenzies,

Just posting a random information sharing post. The "Dragon" colouration had been a hit since their introduction a few years back. Many of you might understand the colouration criteria well, so the aim of this post is to help those who are new to betta keeping with regards to venturing into the vast range of betta colourations. My information might not be 100% correct, these are what I learnt along the way, so feel free to correct me.

White Platinium

White Dragon

The major point to note in a Dragon is its thick, white scalings. Unlike White Platiniums, the scales are thick and chalky white, which will look like armour plates tiled side to side. Pictures are attached above for your reference.

Next, I will touch on identifying the colour type. As mentioned earlier, it is critical for Dragons to have chalky, white body scaling.  Hence, the finnage colour determines the colouration. Example, a red finned fish with white scalings will be a Red Dragon.

I hope this small little information post will help those still confused with the Dragon colouration. One fact to point out is that Red Dragons are the first of the dragon kinds. Lastly, some pictures of different dragons will be posted below, do enjoy!

Black Dragon

Orange Dragon

Gold Dragon

Red Dragon

Cheers! :)
Bettafanatic aka Walter
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Updates of Whites, Spawn II

Hi there betta enthusiasts,

I had been selling my White Platinium HMPKs for a while, and currently, Spawn II is slowly being sold out. Most of the males in the $30-50 range are sold. Currently, the males available are at the $10-20 range. They are still of good quality though, straight edged 180degrees tail spread. Furthermore, I will be jarring my Spawn III soon.

The main purpose for this post is to share that I am yielding fantastic females! Because I tend to jar males prior to females, I am just now starting to jar the remaining bulk of females in the community tank (About 30). A few days of jarring had passed, and I am very pleased with the finnage they are developing.

I quickly snapped some shots to share with you guys, please note that these females are indeed for sale. In the $30 - $40 range, very good price in my opinion for such finnage on females. Quite a number to choose from.

Hope these beautiful ladies brightened up your day, as much as they did for me.

Cheers! :)
Bettafanatic aka Walter
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