Blue Rim Halfmoon Plakat (Betta Splendens)

These fish display a pale or white body with a striking blue edge outlining the fins. As with other marble-influenced patterns, the colouring can continue to shift or develop further blue markings as the fish ages.

As a halfmoon plakat, this male combines the full 180 degree tail spread of the halfmoon with the shorter fins of a plakat, giving a broad, fan-like tail on a stockier, more robust body. The shorter finnage traces back to the fighting bettas historically bred across Southeast Asia, making this variety a hardy, agile swimmer.

Juveniles often don't display full colouration and become more and more vivid as they age, making them fascinating to watch as they change.

Care

• Origin: Indonesia

• Temperature: 24-27℃

• pH: 6.5-7.5

• Ammonia: 0

• Nitrite: 0

• Nitrate: <20

• TDS: 450ppm

• Water Flow: Medium

• Food: high grade betta pellet, frozen bloodworm, frozen brine shrimp, frozen white mosquito larvae.

We recommend using Catappa leaf in the aquarium to help with stress and also improve fish health and colouration.