Hey guys, Simply Betta here.
So in the last video I made I kind of prompted a little game or a little discussion.
I showed some images of some fish that came out of a spawn of mine and I asked you guys
OK how would you pair these fish to then create the next generation the best offspring.
What do you think are the best fish out of all these fish to move forward with?
And I got so many comments I couldn't even reply to all of them.
You guys obviously had a lot of fun!
I'll mention what the top picks were at them end of this video.
So now it's time for me to explain the fish I chose and why and the thought process that
I use when looking at a bunch of fish and then deciding what are the best ones?
I'll give a quick recap - the male and the female that I started with were both imports
that I had for a while.
The male was a black dragon halfmoon plakat.
This image isn't of him, I don't have a picture of him.
I forgot to take one I guess.
So this is just a fish that I pulled of the internet that looks like him.
Kind of.
And then the female is just a solid black halfmoon plakat female, really nice form.
Looks lind of like this fish, again, not my fish but that just looks a lot like her.
So quite a while ago I spawned these two fish, I raised the spawn, I got to the point where
the spawn was now adults and I went ahead and I chose the most promising males and females
out of the spawn to photograph.
I like to take pictures of fish and really get in there and analyze which are the best
ones.
Because a still image, a high res image of a fish, is a lot easier to work off of than
just by looking at a fish moving around really fast.
At least thats how I like it.
I like taking the easy route.
The lazy way.
I want to start by saying that in this batch of fish I'm not choosing based on colors.
The reason for this is because I spawned a really heavy dragon layer male to this solid
black female the first generation offsping they're obviously going to be black but they're
not going to have the full dragon coverage that I'm looking for.
They're gonna be partial dragons.
So I know that if I just pair two fish from this spawn together, the next generation is
going to have a lot more full dragon coverage.
So that's why when choosing out of all these fish I'm not looking at like I'm not focusing
on their color or how the blue irridescence looks on them or the ones with the fullest
coverage I'm not really worried about that.
I'm mostly just looking at the form of the fish I'm selecting for form.
I feel like doing that will make my next batch of fish even better.
So here are the image compilations that I made showing my males and my females that
I showed in my last video, all side-by-side because it's easier to get a good feel for
everyone that way and to be able to compare them that much easier.
So lets start by analyzing my male fish.
Here is a nicer compilation of all my males.
I have male A, B, and C, all brothers from the same spawn.
This is my thought process on how I analyze them.
The very first thing I like to look at in a betta fish is the body.
I'm looking for size and strength and specifically, I'm looking at the topline.
The topline is the curve or the slope of the top of the fish, of the back.
Kind of like this.
I'm looking for a nice smooth curve on the top of these fish.
Here's an example.
I'm going to draw a line on the top of this fish following the curve of the back and you
can see it's really nice and smooth and pleasant.
If I were to exaggerate the curve, you would see that the nose of this fish has a little
swoop to it, this little "fighter snout" its called sometimes.
This is a betta who I would say has a nice topline.
And I think he's really cute.
Now lets look at male C's topline.
Male C has a really nice smooth curve and I think it looks great so he gets a checkmark
too.
Male A in my opinion isn't quite as gifted in the topline department.
If you look carefully, he doesn't have a nice curve.
Instead there is a little bump in it.
It's kind of hard to see so let me exaggerate it.
You can see that the nice curve is defiinetly interrupted by that little tiny amount of
a hunch bump. *sigh* hunch bump, I should really memorize the official terms for these
things.
But because of that, Male A does not get a checkmark.
Now I think it would be fun to take a look at some fish with toplines that I don't really
find all that pleasing.
Sometimes its good to give examples where you show fish that maybe aren't such good
examples.
Let's start with this long fin female here.
I wouldn't consider this fish to have a very strong topline.
It's very long and shallow.
This is quite a long-bodied fish.
Which is fine depending on what you need for your line to improve it.
But this is an example of a very shallow curve.
Here is an example of a female with practically no curve.
This female is really flat-backed.
Which I also don't find very pleasing.
This image looks kind of weird because I blurred out a watermark.
I felt weird critiquing someones fish when it has their name on it.
I didn't want to do that, I'd much rather just blur out their name and critique the
fish.
I wanted this as an example of a fish that has a pretty severe hunchback.
I call them hunchbacks.
Again, I forget the proper term.
The next thing that I'll take a look at are the fins.
I'll start with the ventral fins, which are the long pointy ones at the front of the fish
right here.
I can already tell that, in my eyes, male C is the winner here.
His ventral fins are long and pointed and sharp-looking and dramatic and I like that.
Some people might say they're a little proportionately too long but I really prefer that look to
the stubby ventral fins of the other two fish.
So a point for male C. Here is an example of what I mean by long,
pointed ventral fins seeming more dramatic.
Look at these two fish.
The white fish, I just feel like its so much more striking because of those long pointed
ventral fins, than the red fish who is a pretty fish,absolutely it's a beautiful little fish
but it doesn't have that same sense of...
I don't know what to call it.
Elegance, maybe?
Sharpness?
Even if the ventral fins are a little proportionately too long, I still prefer them.
Here is another trait that I like to select against.
If you lookat the ventral fins on these fish, you'll notice that they don't just come to a single
point.
They come to multiple points.The point is split.
I definitely prefer a single point. It looks a lot cleaner in my opinion.
I don't consider it that big of a deal but I do select against it if I can.
Ok,moving on.The next fin I'll look at is the caudal fin.
The caudal fin which is the back fin of the fish, this is pretty much the fin that defines
the betta fish.
So these fish are halfmoon plakats, which means that they're short-finned bettas but
the short-finned fish have been selectively bred to have a fuller, wider spread of their
caudal fin.
Here is an example of a traditional plakat.
As you can see it doesn't have as much ray branching as the halfmoon plakats, which means
the spread of its tail is not nearly as wide.
For a halfmoon plakat I'm looking for a caudal fin which is "D" shaped.
It's really full and sharp and pointy at the edges, and looks like a capital "D".
Male A and C definitely have the advantage when it comes to their caudal fins, but I
actually like male C a little bit more.
It's because male C's edges of the caudal fin are less rounded than male A's.
Which lends itself more to a capital D shape.
I'll show a few examples of male fish with a really strong, sharp capital "D" shaped
caudal fin.
Some of these fish are show fish that I pulled off from some websites like the Bettas4All
website.
So another point goes to male C. The next fin I'll look at is the anal fin.
Down at the bottom of the fish, this big long trapezoid-shaped fin down here.
So for this one I look for a few things.
I don't want it to be too long and trailing, but I also don't want it to be too short.
I want the fin to make as straight of a line as possible in this direction, but I also
want it to come to a point, not rounded.
So looking at all these fish, male B and C would be the winners here and male A - he
has a really rounded end of his anal fin and I don't like that.
Here are a few images of fish that I think are really nice examples for a good anal fin.
Male C gets another checkmark.
It's pretty obvious that male C is my winner.
I think I've gone over how I chose in a whole lot of detail, and why I chose him, and I
hope it made sense to everyone!
Now it's time to move over to the females.
I'll be taking a lot of concepts that I used for the males over to the females as well.
Since I have more fish to choose from, I'll be able to disqualify some a little more quickly.
Just like with the males, I look first at the body shape and the topline.
There is one extra thing I need to explain for what I prefer in the female body shape.
I prefer them to look kind of like teardrops versus ovals.
It's kind of hard to explain, heres a little picture of what I mean.
I say that because I think a more streamlined body looks very elegant and very striking,
versus a more stout, oval-shaped body that females can definitely have.
Sometimes females can get really, really stout and eggy.
I'll disqualify female C for that reason - she has the most stout, oval-shaped body.
In the photo her caudal fin looks a little weird but it's just her pose.
She is pushing her tail over to the side flaring at another fish, so I'm not really paying
attention to that.
Sometimes a fish's pose can definitely have an impact on how they look in a photo.
I'm also going to disqualify female B - her topline seem the most shallow of the remaining
fish, and I'm also noticing her proportions and her body length.
She's just slightly longer-bodied than I would like.
I've whittled my selection down to three remaining females. Next I'll look at the caudal fin.
Female A and E clearly have the fuller caudal fin with a nicer "D" shape.
It might seem like female E doesn't, but I just took that photo when she wasn't in a
perfect flare.
Female D's caudal fin is smaller,so she's disqualified.
She has the darkest coloration which is kind of nice but earlier I did say that I'm specifically
not looking at color.
Now to choose between female A and E, my last two fish.
I don't know, these fish look exactly alike to me, they're like twins.
I could have these two fish side-by-side in a tank and I wouldn't know the difference.
They looks the exact same to me.
Now E doesn't have as full of a flare in the photo, but it's just the pose.
I feel like it's a toss-up between these two fish because they're pretty much the exact
same, at least in my eyes.
So I chose female A. Female E is really nice too so I kept her and I've decided to pair
her to another fish of mine.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the last video. It was fun to hear what people's
thoughts were and answers were kind of all over the place though male B and C were usually
the favorites.
And as for females those answers were kind of all over the place too.
I was going to make a tally but there ended up being so many answers that I just couldn't
do it, I didn't have the time!
Thanks so much for participating in the last video.
So these are my winner fish, these two right here.
Female E was also one of my favorite females so I'm going to go ahead and pair her to a different
male that I have who is this nice marble.
She is going to improve that male, if that makes sense.
I already spawned them a few weeks ago but my spawn is very small so I'll probably try
again soon.
I'm looking forward to some offspring with some really great form, and hopefully a nice
heavier dragon layer, too, because that's really pretty.
I hope you guys enjoyed having a look into my decision-making process.If you would have
done things differently you can always comment in the comments down below and let me know.
Thanks so much for watching, guys.
Be sure to like and subscribe, I'm going to have some more betta stuff coming up in the
future.
Thanks so much to my patrons, I love you guys.
Have a great day and I'll see you later.
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