A popular and unique pet, the Siamese fighting fish isn’t a fish that plays well with others. Also known as betta fish, these ...

Worse still, with these bettas already dead and dying in pet stores, betta owners are breeding the fish at home. According to Mary McCauley of Mary’s Magic Bettas, breeding bettas at home is a ...

The betta’s elaborate colors and long, flowing fins are the product of a millennium of careful selective breeding. Or as Yi-Kai Tea, a doctoral candidate at the University of Sydney who studies ...

Starting with just 5 million VND, Vo Thanh Hai turned his passion for betta fish into a profitable business and award-winning farm. At 28 years old, Vo Thanh Hai has built a successful business ...

A new campaign by PETA is pushing to end sales of betta fish at PETCO, both over concerns about the bettas’ treatment at breeding centers and during transportation, as well as once they’re in ...

“The unfortunate life of a betta begins at the horrific breeding facilities where these fish are bred, improperly cared for, and often die from harsh conditions they are subjected to ...

And betta fish, he adds, seem like an “extreme case” of sex determination changing within a species. In our bid to breed more beautiful and fiercer fish, we might have given them a sex gene too.

as this yellow half-moon betta is about to do. The flowing fins and vibrant colors of the Siamese fighting fish we know today result from centuries of selective breeding. Scientists believe it’s ...

We have a spawning tank, an instructional booklet and a helper at Petco…sounds like this will go great! This week we move TB (the male) into the spawning tank with the big day scheduled for July ...