Hello betta lovers and what up everybody and welcome to my video
Today I want to invite you to discuss about Giant Betta
If we compare giant betta and regular Betta, We will see the significant size
Giant betta is a betta that big but not only big
There are several characteristics that we need to know about the Giant Betta
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By the way before I speak at length,
I want to remind you that the Giant Betta and the descendants of the Giant Betta are 2 different things
Giant bettas are at least 5 cm body lenght and should be more.
While some of the giant betta descendants can reach 5 cm body lenght and some are not.
The descendants of the giant betta, that can not have body length above 5 cm
In my opinion, it cannot be called a giant betta, and it just called as a line giant betta.
Okay First of all, We will discuss about giant betta based on the history
and the physical type of giant betta fins
What I know about Giant. There are several types of giant betta fins
Common examples are giant plakat and giant halfmoon.
Apart from the betta in captivity, there is also a large wild betta, namely betta bellica.
The length of this betta can reach up to 10 cm
This betta is also a bubble nester type
So that, there is a possibility that it can be crossed with the bubble nester betta that are in captivity.
And okay now let's start from a brief history of giant betta
In 1999 there was a Betta breeder from Thailand,
namely Mr. Athapon and his son Mr. Natee
They are breeder of plakat betta in thailand,
and one day Mr. Athapon and Natee found a very large plakat on their farm.
It was an incredible because they found betta four inches long.
In centimeter is about 10 cm.
And Finally they had the idea to breed a large betta
And after the first generation of fry, they found only a very small amount of large betta.
But they selected the biggest of those and breed them again
They goal is to get the larger generation of the betta fish
They started breeding new broods every week, some weeks as many as 50 pairs of fish at a time
They began switching the males and females from different large sized lines together
to create strong colors, and to prevent inbreeding
And they do this breeding process several times to get good results
After they succeeded in producing large betta
then They named them Giant Betta
After we discuss the brief history of giant betta, now we will discuss the character
and physicality of giant betta.
Okay, we start from the giant betta scales The scales of giant betta are usually thick
and larger, and generally giant betta have loose scales.
and non-giant betta usually have smaller scales.
You can see the size of the giant betta scales on this fish, it is a giant 6 cm body only.
Large scales and large body.
Then the fins giant betta is generally thicker
Based on my observations, the giant fins looks thicker than the usual betta
Especially in the type of dragon giant betta.
These are some examples of giant betta that we can observe.
Okay next is about giant betta appetite.
Giant betta appetite is higher, because giant fish need a lot of energy.
Giant betta feed is almost the same as other betta fish, namely mosquito larvae, tubifex,
blood worms, and sometimes they still want to eat moina.
And There is one more giant favorite food, namely pellets Monster.
Pellets Monster are high protein pellets and these pellets are very favored by giant betta
And about the size of the giant betta in Indonesia,
the giant betta is simply divided into two sizes.
The first is Giant Junior, and the second is Giant Senior
And if you can have a betta fish with a size over 5 cm for body length,
then you are very the lucky person.
Breeding giant betta need extra hard work.
Not only breeding, the biggest challenge is during the betta rising process,
because it should be noted that not all generations of giant can be large,
some of the giant generation usually fail to reach a size of 5 cm for Body lenght.
Giant betta growth tends to be very fast, usually at the age of 2 months, body length ranges about 3 - 3.5 cm.
Giant betta is a very expensive fish, I predict the market price is between 35 USD to 200 USD.
Okay betta lovers if you have opinion about giant betta or maybe you want discuss about giant betta
You can write in column comment
and finally thank you so much for watching this video and see you at the next video