The prev discussion mainly showed giant bettas and therefore fairly easily identifiable as breeder at young age. What if you're having "just that typical betta" and yet you'd like to find out if your fish is a breeder or not?
Well, here is an example:
Now, the boy is nearly 2 months old. Sure, you may have some of your fish look just like him, but then what would be the criteria that we considered to be good breeder off this boy?
First of all, notice that the boy has very nice wide-spread fins: caudal, dorsal, and anal are all wide, nicely spread. Secondly, if you're focusing on green/turq, he's a bonus, since he has no red wash (nor any of his siblings). He's a clean turq...Furthermore, he is very aggressive, this is always a major requirement for any breeder.
Let us pay attention to his fins. On all of his fins, you notice that they all have that "white edges" that indicate further growth of the fins is about to come. Although all young fish will have their fins growing further, the white edges/tips on all-rays usually indicate a further growth AND branching.
The anal fin is a nicely spread fin, square in shape, and not too long or too pointy. Slight length on anal fin (compared to caudal) is typical unless you're aiming to get symmetrical plakats (short fins bettas).
The boy will end up with slight heavy branching and by all means this is one of the preferred breeders in our categories. He may show up as OHM, just a tad, at later stage.
Note that this topic identifies breeders based on form rather than anything else. Your goals could be completely different than ours and therefore you may not agree completely with this topic. Hope you have some fun identifying your next breeders :)
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