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Re: OT. bettas
Ah! But the difference is that you cannot breed a lone male killie of a
given species to anything but a lone female killie (or perhaps two females
if he is a REALLY lucky male LOL) of the same species. If I have a lone
male Fp. gardneri I can't just toss him in the tank with my A. australe
female and get some Fp. gardneri back. On the other hand, if I buy say a
lone turquoise betta I have dozens of females I could pair him up with in
order to produce quality stock and dozens more if I didn't care about
producing really ugly fish. In other words I could pair him with a female
from his color group (like turquoise, royal blue, steel, pastel, etc.) or
even a red female which would produce viable offspring but their color would
be terrible.
However, for wild betta species, a lone male is just as "worthless" as a
lone male killie.
Denise
Shangri-La Bettas
Denise R. Archambeault
Animal Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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>From: LeeH920226 at aol_com
>To: killietalk at aka_org
>Subject: Re: OT. bettas
>Date: Sat, Feb 2, 2002, 9:31 AM
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>In a message dated 2/2/02 10:25:52 AM, LadysSolo at aol_com writes:
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><< A wise person once said an item is worth whatever you can get
>someone to pay for it (and how quickly you need to sell it.) >>
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>There is a very foggy area distinguishing between priceless and worthless. A
>pair of rare killies will easily fetch $20-50 but a lone male will be
>difficult to give away for a $1.00. Is the same true of Bettas?
>
>Lee Harper
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