hi I'm Irene with Girl Talks Fish and after giving away my camera-shy betta fish
Sonic to my best friend, that five gallon tank in my office is sitting
pretty empty so I'm still undecided what i should get for it
what I'm looking for is obviously great selection but most importantly healthy and active bettas
because it seems to really vary from store to store depending on kind of the quality of the
manager but yeah the worst thing would be for me to bring home a sickly betta fish that doesn't do
well for some reason and then breaks my heart in front of thousands and thousands of viewers
okay the first store is the closest one to where we are right now so let's go there first
fish number one is this galaxy koi male that caught my eye and he has got red orange black
maybe some pink on him and then like a solid black eye which it looks really really cool i don't know
if he will stay as a plakat tail meaning his tail will stay shorter because that's definitely
something I'm looking at in the future betta just because i don't want to have to deal with a lot of
tail biting issues like i have in the past so it'd be nice to try a plakat but he looks
pretty cool my only fear about koi betta fish is just the marbling effect whether or not those
spots are going to stay the same or if he's gonna turn into a solid red betta one day
the next betta i noticed is this rose petal male which is the complete opposite of plakat
they have one of the largest tails i know it looks small right now but when he grows up it's gonna be
so big that there are gonna be folds and pleats in it so you guys will have to let me down know
down in the comments whether you've kept rose petal bettas before and if the tail weighed
them down and you know kind of affected their swimming but i really like the pearlescent white
coloration of the body the teal on his tail and then i think those are a couple of red dark red
spots on his ventral fins and then yeah he seems to have double pupils or something or at least
some black on his iris that makes it look like he has two pupils which is kind of interesting but
very cool betta i would love to set one up uh in a planted tank with that coloration
i can't help myself i know i just re-homed Sonic who was also a paradise or mustard gas
betta fish but i just love that coloration now this one seems to have more of a darker black
body with a little bit of light turquoise sheen to it and then of course those famously yellow
fins and tails and then oh it looks like he has a bright blue eye as well so very cool look but
i probably wouldn't go for another paradise betta at least right away definitely didn't have as much
selection as i was hoping so let's head over to my second favorite Petco i actually really like
crowntail betta fish and this one has super unusual coloration that is a purple body if i
if I'm reading that correctly with bright vivid yellow fins i mean really really cool his face is
a little bit dirty muddy looking but i don't mind because that combination is very very unusual in
a betta fish at least I've not seen a lot of them so yeah i would consider taking him home
i mentioned in a previous my top five blue fish video that I'm a huge fan of blue bettas and not
so much red but man this pink orchid male is gorgeous he's got that red head and this
pinkish purple body i love the fins are so multicolored there's red white and i believe
the base of the tail is kind of a blue green sheen gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous i don't know how big
that tail is gonna get but i would definitely consider taking him home if you guys remember my
previous betta before Sonic his name was Soundwave and he was a butterfly male that beautiful blue
or blue green body and that giant white band of white on the fins and tail i mean that just
is such a stunning combination and when i took him home he looked like that and then
soon afterwards all the white this disappeared and he became a completely blue betta with a black
face but this betta man if that white can stay there i absolutely would consider doing another
butterfly male because it's just it's so high contrast i love it
now i have never tried a dragon scale betta before but wow they look amazing they get that name from
those giant scales on them that look almost like armor or like reptile scales obviously
but again i just love that white pink purple red kind of ombre effect on it
and it looks absolutely gorgeous my only concern is i have heard that sometimes that scaling effect
can end up growing over their eyes and called cause blindness so let me know down in the
comments if you've ever kept a dragon scale betta and if that happened to you
i think i must just be in the mood for multicolored bettas because they keep
grabbing my eye compared to the solid colored ones but this is a double tail male
and to me he looks like red white and blue from the American flag he's got the blue body the red
edging and then kind of a white cream colored head and then a solid black eye which is so pretty um
we used to have a betta fish named Captain America and he definitely reminds me of him
wow look at this elephant ear female betta
man um normally i wouldn't pick an elephant ear betta because a lot of times i just see that their
elephant ears end up uh splitting because they're just so large but she is so cool
she has this like mermaid iridescent colored body that's kind of fading from blue to green
and the white finish and I've never kept a female betta either so i would love to take her home wow
okay cool that story definitely had a lot more variety i actually happen to have a
pickup at another Petco so let's head over there now well that's kind of disappointing
there actually weren't many betas in the store at all the only betas i really found
were in the GloFish section and so i normally probably wouldn't consider a GloFish betta but
this one kind of stood out because it wasn't solid colored so it does have a bright yellow
body which will be kind of i assume a fluorescent yellow under blue lighting and then the tail has
dark red and white on it he doesn't seem to be the most healthiest
betta I've ever seen before but again this was limited selection and he definitely caught my eye
well i think after looking at all these betta fish today I've realized that I'm still not over losing
sonic you know it's not fun having to re-home or lose a wet pet for any reason and that's making
me a little gun shy when it comes to committing to another betta fish so i don't know so no rush
no rush I'm actually gonna be in Aquashella in Orlando on February 26th and they always have
an amazing selection of betta fish so I'm gonna maybe go check out some over there but if you are
also on the search for a new betta and you don't know where to look make sure to check out my five
best places to buy a betta fish and yeah take time to enjoy aquariums and I'll see in the next video