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v • d • e This article is part of WikiProject Fishes , an attempt to organise a detailed guide to all topics related to Fish taxa. To participate, you can edit the attached article, or contribute further at WikiProject Fishes. This project is an offshoot of the WikiProject Tree of LifeMerge?
The "Siamese Fighting Fish" page is really similar to this one. I added a "See Also" at the bottom since to most people they are synonymous.
00:02, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I'm in favor of a merge. I have set up a new page called Betta (Siamese Fighting Fish) and have the identical information in it. We should just get an admin to delete the old pages. After that we cna hash out the new article (as some minor differences do exist) Any objections.Gator1 17:19, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
I hope I'm not moving to quickly, but after no objection I have merged the two articles into Betta (Siamese Fighting Fish) and put redirect links on both of the old pages. Hope that's not going to freak someone out! lol.Gator1 00:26, September 4, 2005 (UTC)
I've done a tidy-up here, turning this page into a stub for the genus Betta and renaming the page for Betta splendens as Siamese Fighting Fish. It's a bit awkward given the frequent use of "betta" to refer to B. splendens , but it seems like the most logical thing to do given that there are over 50 other species in the genus. Does anyone know anything about any of them? 3 or 4 of them do have common names - are they ever kept in aquaria or studied scientifically? seglea 22:57, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
plakats are just only a terminology for short tailed betta. there are many species of betta, the most common ones being halfmoon, halfmoon plakat, crown tail, double tail, and veil tail. these are the betta splendens. of course, there are also the wild betta kind. which are harder to find and more expensive in price.
Images
Does anyone think this page needs more images, specifically of different Betta colours and flaring? (I'm asking because I have images that might be of use) Pharaoh Hound 12:50, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Moving more stuff to the species page
Yet again a whole lot of stuff has grown up on this page which only applies to Betta splendens , so I am moving it to the Siamese fighting fish page and merging it with similar material there. seglea 22:59, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Sorry
My sincerest appologies about putting stuff about Betta splendens on this page. I got confused, however it will never happen again. --Pharaoh Hound 17:58, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
and yet again
Here's another chunk of material that I have removed, which again belongs on the Siamese Fighting Fish page - except that it is already covered there, rather better:
seglea 20:50, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
External links
I re-removed the external links: the FishBase link is redundant because it's in References, and the other one (fishfriend.com or something) is not terribly useful--it appears to be about B. splendens, not about the genus, but that is not really clear. At any rate, it's a few paragraphs of unsourced, unscientific information. Tkinias 08:38, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Betta vs. B. splendens ; Photos
I've added links to the Species Maintenance Program run by the International Betta Congress, who are a respected authority on the genus. (IUCN links to their Web site from the Red List, for example.) This is part of the work to clarify that Betta is a genus, not just the single species sold at Walmart. There are also conservation issues with some Betta species that are confused if people think "how can bettas be endangered if I can buy them at every store?" I also changed the main photo to B. albimarginata, since ATM that's the only non- B. splendens species we've got photos of. I'd like to get a B. picta photo for this, as that's the type species and should be the one pictured according to WikiProject guidelines. If anyone has access to non- splendens bettas and a camera, help out! Tkinias 13:49, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
Forum for helping with the care, keeping and breeding of bettas :http://betta-paradise.find-forum.net/forum.htmikan bettah is not a Thai word
I'm sad to say that fishbase is most likely wrong on this. The word Ikan bettah does not exist in Thai (Siamese), but it is most likely a word in Malay/Indonesian, which is also spoken in Southern Thailand. So I changed it from the "Thai language" to "a local language in Thailand." --Melanochromis 04:03, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
No of species in this genus
The intro on this page states that there are 28 species of Betta , yet the article lists 70. Are these listed species actual species, or are some of them sub species? Also the Siamese fighting fish page states that there are nearly 50 "types" of Betta . It would help if someone with some detailed knowledge of the taxonomy of this group could clear this up. Nick Thorne talk 22:32, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Fish vs Fishes?
Why use fishes, I am not sure that the word fishes is proper... The plural of fish is fish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.187.53.46 (talk) 15:24, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Betta is a large genus of small, often colorful, freshwater ray-finned fishes in the gourami family (Osphronemidae).
correct me if I'm wrong -although both gouramis and bettas are anabantoids (they have a special organ to breath air from the surface) I don't think Bettas are part of the gourami family. They are similar but a specific genus to themselves.
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