Which species is this? I picked it up from Don @ Fish Gallery... it came in by itself unmarked. Im thinking Betta Rutilans but Im not sure. It shows quite a bit of red prospect sometimes, and has white tipped pectorals. We think its male but arent positive. It is about an inch. Thanks
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http://smp.ibcbettas.org/Pages/slideshow.htm this might help'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without you, we are but dust ...'
He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four-year old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'
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B. tussyae: no lateral blotch; brick-red body colour; faint parallel vertical iridescent gold bars on opercle; pelvic fins falcate, with narrow white tip, rest red; median fins without iridescent green spots; dorsal-fin rays 11-12; anal-fin rays 27-28; subdorsal scales 8; lateral scales 30-31
B. coccina: small iridescent green lateral blotch in male, missing in female; dark red body colour; no parallel vertical iridescent gold opercle bars; pelvic fin falcate with black filamentous tip, rest red; median fins with discrete iridescent green spots; dorsal fin-rays 9-12; anal-fin rays 27-29; subdorsal scales 7-8; lateral scales 31-32; predorsal scales 18-21
Tan, H.H. and P.K.L. Ng. - Raffles Bull. Zool. Supplement (13):43-99. 2005
The fighting fishes (Teleostei: Osphronemidae: Genus Betta) of Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei.Emerald Green Rainbowfish
Yellow Rabbit Snails
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