I know misinformation gets corrected, or keeping criteria updates, besides the obvious is there anything NEW I should know about? New diseases? New tanks specifically for betas (that is humane) I'm eager to dip back in! Goldfish meme for attention (currently what I'm keeping)
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Posted by CNECTOR_
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Anecdotally, life expentancy has gone downhill. I had bettas 10+ years ago who lived to be 3-3.5 years. I struggle to keep them alive more than 1-2 years now. And in my opinion (no hard evidence, just my observations), tumors are becoming more prevalent, even in color morphs and tail types that are not as prone to them.
I don’t know. There’s no really new betta diseases, but be prepared to expect general health and genetics to not be what they were ten years ago. Inbreeding has done major damage.
Agreed, lifespan has cratered, they’re more delicate now, plus you have new issues like the ‘dumbo ear’ and ‘rose tail’ with such overgrown finnage that it makes swimming difficult and tiring, and the ‘dragonscale’ mutation that causes scales to grow over the eyes, causing them to go blind… koi pattern has a higher incidence of tumors
The only ones relatively unaffected are female bettas and plakat males.