Midwest Betta Club show

[PhishPhreek]

Traditionally, choclate bettas have had a rich brown body and yellow fins.

I crossed an orange and chocolage/orange hybred to get this color.
The chocolate body is dominant but the orange fins are recessive.

[FuzzyDragon09]

Oh very pretty! Is the chocolate color hard to make?

[fishboyt]

He's purtty.

[PhishPhreek]

Your bettas sound gorgeous! I'm intrigued by these chocolates. Could you post pictures of the siblings to your winning bettas? Please? Awesome!

This is one of the smaller males, but he is my favorite.
Sorry that the picture is too dark.

[PhishPhreek]

Newspaper report on the show

http://www.midwestbettaclub.net/article.htm

Best of Show Male

http://www.midwestbettaclub.net/bosm4409.jpg

Best of Show Female

http://www.midwestbettaclub.net/bosf4409.jpg

[FuzzyDragon09]

In previous years I sent my very best bettas to the shows and had them returned to me after the show. With a show every other weekend, my bettas spent more time in the air than in the water and the schedule cost me some of my best fish.

Now I ship #3 &#4 to the show and auction them off after the show to pay expenses. (I keep #1 & #2 home safe to make more bettas) I actually kept the 12 best from each spawn because there are 4 shows and the convention in DFW this june.

The light bodied bi-colors are orange cambodians - white body and orange fins.
the dark bodied bi-colors are my new color (orange chocolates) a dark chocolate body with orange fins. I also entered some pineapples, yellow with black outlines on their body scales like a pineapple.
My opaque winners, I'm sure you've seen, they are a snow white
and for the butterfly class I sent an assortment. (butterfly patern is the fins half one color and half another) One blue body, blue & white fins, one red body, red & black fins, one chocolate body, orange & black fins.
The winning Double-Tail paterened female was a Black marble butterfly with white tipped fins. Half sister to my orange chocolates and mother to my most recent spawn of double-tails.

That's a pretty smart plan. At first I thought you got them shipped back to you, then I thought that maybe it would be too costly. Your bettas sound gorgeous! I'm intrigued by these chocolates. Could you post pictures of the siblings to your winning bettas? Please?

FYI -
I am now the #11 ranked breeder in the US - but I plan on moving up on the 18th at the MOBB show. I wanna be in the top 10

http://www.pcez.com/~bettaguy/A1GCtop20.html

Awesome!

[fishboyt]

fyi -
i am now the #11 ranked breeder in the us - but i plan on moving up on the 18th at the mobb show. I wanna be in the top 10

http://www.pcez.com/~bettaguy/a1gctop20.html

sweet!

[PhishPhreek]

FYI -
I am now the #11 ranked breeder in the US - but I plan on moving up on the 18th at the MOBB show. I wanna be in the top 10

http://www.pcez.com/~bettaguy/A1GCtop20.html

[PhishPhreek]

Very cool! Congrats! Do you have pics of the kinds of Bettas you entered? Could you give us an idea of what they looked like? I imagine you don't have the ones you entered. Btw where do they go after the show?

In previous years I sent my very best bettas to the shows and had them returned to me after the show. With a show every other weekend, my bettas spent more time in the air than in the water and the schedule cost me some of my best fish.

Now I ship #3 &#4 to the show and auction them off after the show to pay expenses. (I keep #1 & #2 home safe to make more bettas) I actually kept the 12 best from each spawn because there are 4 shows and the convention in DFW this june.

The light bodied bi-colors are orange cambodians - white body and orange fins.
the dark bodied bi-colors are my new color (orange chocolates) a dark chocolate body with orange fins. I also entered some pineapples, yellow with black outlines on their body scales like a pineapple.
My opaque winners, I'm sure you've seen, they are a snow white
and for the butterfly class I sent an assortment. (butterfly patern is the fins half one color and half another) One blue body, blue & white fins, one red body, red & black fins, one chocolate body, orange & black fins.
The winning Double-Tail paterened female was a Black marble butterfly with white tipped fins. Half sister to my orange chocolates and mother to my most recent spawn of double-tails.

[Fire_chair]

Congrats

[FuzzyDragon09]

Very cool! Congrats! Do you have pics of the kinds of Bettas you entered? Could you give us an idea of what they looked like? I imagine you don't have the ones you entered. Btw where do they go after the show?

[fishboyt]

Sweet! Congrats!

[PhishPhreek]

Results have been posted
312 fish entered
I won best of Division D & reserve best of division D (Bi-colors) with
1st & 2nd in Light Bi-color males,
3rd in light bi-color females
1st in dark bi-color males.
I also won
1st & 2nd in butterfly males
1st in double-tail patterned females
2nd & 3rd with my white males
3rd with one of my Dragon males

[Fire_chair]

Good luck, JR.

[fishboyt]

I wish I had some show bettas to send.