Tail types & forms

Every fancy betta descends from the short-finned plakat fighting form. Here are the finnage types you'll meet in the hobby.

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Wild bettas

Beyond Betta splendens lie 70+ wild species — many kept by dedicated hobbyists for their subtle colours and fascinating mouthbrooding behaviour.

A field guide to colour

Betta colour lives in four layers of pigment and iridescence. Breeders stack and subtract those layers to create the named patterns below.

Colour you can't quite paint

A betta's colour is built from stacked pigment cells and light-scattering iridocytes — structural blues and greens that shift with the angle you catch them in.

Betta care, done right

Forget the cup and the vase. A healthy betta wants warmth, clean cycled water and space. Here's the honest baseline every keeper should hit.

Updates & keeping logs

Care guides, breeding journals, community news and the fish that caught our eye this week.

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Betta care questions, answered

Straight answers to the questions new keepers actually search for — tank size, lifespan, feeding, tank mates and more.

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Betta & aquarium videos

Real Creative Commons footage of bettas, planted tanks and aquarium life. Click any clip to watch.

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Tanks from the community

Real fish from real keepers across India. Submit yours and it might become fish of the week.

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A community of finned obsessions

Indian Betta started as a WhatsApp group of a dozen breeders swapping photos of bubble nests. Today it's a home for thousands of keepers who believe fishkeeping is equal parts science, patience and pure delight.

We're here for the beginner cycling their first 5-gallon, the breeder chasing a perfect koi galaxy line, and the arowana and koi keepers who wandered in and never left.