passing of a giant betta

Last night, one of our largest giants passed away. The large 3.2 inches HMPK female...our own bred...She was so beautiful.....8 rays splitting....platinum red BF....

We had been having trouble in spawning this female for a long time and recently we simply gave up. It's not because the female was not interested to any males that we gave her, she's more than interested. It's just that none of the males is capable to tame her. Along the way, she managed to kill two of the most gorgeous males too :)

She's very aggressive and large. We tried her with our largest male (imported), but this failed too. the male was 3.3 inches long, no way to compare the male to the female.

Too bad her gill was infected badly (maybe spread from previous imported male -- he was infected initially) and despite the meds given to her, she just didn't last as long as we wanted her to be....

She died at age of 8-9 months. Making her the largest (and fastest growing) female we have ever had. We certainly are gonna miss her.....

This is the problem with giants, particularly females. Once their size gets too big, there is no male that can spawn them. The only ones that can spawn them would be long fin males, preferably long fin giants! But it's very rare to acquire good long fin giants. The ones available are typically 3-3.5 inches long, which is not even sufficient length to wrap these females (provided they're not beaten to death by the female first).

Her passing makes the number of bettas that we kept reduced to only 40. This is considerably easier to manage at the moment cause we have so many to start with. We still have to transfer about 200 of their siblings (and don't forget 3 tanks for fry!!!) to people out there who'd like to get their hands on the fish.....So people, if you'd like to buy good giants, just give us an email asap (read our previous post on costs etc).