jockprivilege:

beltaguise:

jockprivilege:

beltaguise:

aquariadise:

jockprivilege:

here’s a little secret about domestic bettas: they look cute and active in the store or from breeders because they’re only three months old, once they get to be about 6 months old they’ll start to deteriorate and you’re lucky if you can now get a single betta fish to live over the age of one. the lifespan of wild bettas is over 5 years.

Not sure about the statistics of this but… yeah this.

This is part of the reason I want to get into breeding them. Bettas are super pretty even without the long fancy tails or dragon scaling, but it seems like breeders and petstores only sell those kinds of bettas.

Still it’ll be a few years at least before I even have the space to breed anything at all.

Not to be discouraging but there’s no way you can possibly breed healthy domestics because they all come from unhealthy, inbred lines. The market is over saturated with them, and you won’t get anything in return.

The better option is to breed wild bettas! Wild bettas are gaining popularity in the market, and they come from environments that are facing increased pressures due to habitat loss and pollution. The fish keeping hobby already preserves species that are otherwise extinct or near extinction in the hobby, such as goodeid livebearers and licorice gouramis, and the same can be done with wild betta species.

I actually was thinking of wild types! They’re absolutely gorgeous. I still have a live for crown tails and hmpk, I’d rather see more wilds for sale locally then try and sell yet another koi betta in this market.

Though I’ve wondered if crossbreeding with wild-type Betta splendens would improve the genetics of domesticated bettas. I know fuck-all about genetics and hybridisation though so I’m not…gonna get into that.

Hybridizing fish is a pretty big no-no to conservation breeders, it’s how we lost endler guppies in the hobby which are now thought to be extinct in the wild. Pretty much any endler you get is just a guppy hybrid, so no true endler exists afaik.

There’s no need to hybridized wilds with domestics, the only people doing it are people exploiting the demand for show quality bettas.

Mmm maybe hybrid was the wrong word. Domestic bettas are just another form of Betta splendens right? I’ve occasionally seen some wild-type Betta splendens for sale and thought about crossing a wild-type with domesticated to make a healthier domesticated Betta.

Eh, I just have a real soft spot for petstore bettas, and if I could find a way to make them healthier I would.

jockprivilege:

beltaguise:

aquariadise:

jockprivilege:

here’s a little secret about domestic bettas: they look cute and active in the store or from breeders because they’re only three months old, once they get to be about 6 months old they’ll start to deteriorate and you’re lucky if you can now get a single betta fish to live over the age of one. the lifespan of wild bettas is over 5 years.

Not sure about the statistics of this but… yeah this.

This is part of the reason I want to get into breeding them. Bettas are super pretty even without the long fancy tails or dragon scaling, but it seems like breeders and petstores only sell those kinds of bettas.

Still it’ll be a few years at least before I even have the space to breed anything at all.

Not to be discouraging but there’s no way you can possibly breed healthy domestics because they all come from unhealthy, inbred lines. The market is over saturated with them, and you won’t get anything in return.

The better option is to breed wild bettas! Wild bettas are gaining popularity in the market, and they come from environments that are facing increased pressures due to habitat loss and pollution. The fish keeping hobby already preserves species that are otherwise extinct or near extinction in the hobby, such as goodeid livebearers and licorice gouramis, and the same can be done with wild betta species.

I actually was thinking of wild types! They’re absolutely gorgeous. I still have a live for crown tails and hmpk, I’d rather see more wilds for sale locally then try and sell yet another koi betta in this market.

Though I’ve wondered if crossbreeding with wild-type Betta splendens would improve the genetics of domesticated bettas. I know fuck-all about genetics and hybridisation though so I’m not…gonna get into that.

aquariadise:

jockprivilege:

here’s a little secret about domestic bettas: they look cute and active in the store or from breeders because they’re only three months old, once they get to be about 6 months old they’ll start to deteriorate and you’re lucky if you can now get a single betta fish to live over the age of one. the lifespan of wild bettas is over 5 years.

Not sure about the statistics of this but… yeah this.

This is part of the reason I want to get into breeding them. Bettas are super pretty even without the long fancy tails or dragon scaling, but it seems like breeders and petstores only sell those kinds of bettas.

Still it’ll be a few years at least before I even have the space to breed anything at all.

feylesbian:

I know that Americans are going to be gearing up for the 2020 election and sharing a lot of posts about that, but your northern neighbors impact you guys too, so I’d really appreciate it if you’d take a minute out of your day to inform yourselves about what’s going on up here.

This election is when we elect our new governing party, their opposition, and the new Prime Minister, roughly the social equivalent of your President. Canada currently works on a First Past the Post system, which means that the first party to reach a certain number of seats takes the election, even if they end up being in the minority of votes once we get all the way to British Columbia. It’s a highly unfair situation and the New Democratic Party has been campaigning for change.We in fact have four (five, given Quebec) major parties in play here. We are not a 2 party system like the US. This is a good post on how this process works. And a good crash course on Canadian Politics in general.

I’ll be blogging a lot about it, myself, especially in the months leading up to the election itself (I think it’s in October?), and I will be tagging everything with the tag #CDNPOLI . In fact, you can find more posts about the subject under that hashtag on my blog.

I’ll be coming from the perspective of a New Democratic Party voter, as I believe that they’re the most capable and honest party we have at the moment, and they’re by far the furthest left of all the major Canadian parties. If my followers would be willing to reblog and spread some of the things I reblog, or follow some Canadian politics blogs on their own, I’d really appreciate it. Canadian voter turnout is always low because our elections aren’t exactly as much of a glitsy debacle as American ones are, and they are often pushed to the wayside in Canadian media by (probably CPC/Lib sponsored as a distraction, but that’s just my personal conspiracy theory) news of the American elections.

I really want other Canadians to be informed, and I’m tired of oil conglomerates running our country. We have options, and we need to utilize them if the human species is to survive. If the planet is to remain livable.

Thanks for understanding, friends.

Shit I’m Canadian and I didn’t even know the election was this year.