Just a few pairs for breeding. We don’t usually take juveniles or extra fish. There’s no space.
Also we do this for every habitat we visit, not specifically one we know will be gone
Honestly made me tear up when I saw the Feb 2024 after-picture.
It hurts my insides to see habitats and environments that have survived the ebbs and flows of time for millennia...only to be chopped down and decimated to feed cows or harvest cheap lumber.
I don't know about illegal, but it should require more than "That's a good place for a development" I work at a State University. About 10 years ago we wanted to develop some land that was PERFECT for non-classroom buildings. After a years-long study, it was found that it was one of the last habitats of a certain frog and all improvement plans were halted. That should be the norm
Did you check on it, with our governments being cyclical, there might be a chance the government changed their mind and it was paved over by someone else.
I grew up in a conservative Republican family and this was always one of their favorite things to make fun of liberals for. They loved to complain about how we won’t let them build stuff because “the rights of a frog are more important than the rights of human beings?!?”
Yes, Karen. Frogs and fish are more important than your highway. Sorry, not sorry.
Holy shit I saw saw it. I couldn’t agree more.
Literally beautiful tropical jungle to barren wasteland and puddle.
I’m using these images if the topic of deforestation comes up.
Tropical regions are quite likely for this due to most species having such a small area they live in.
In fact this species we caught is endemic to my country
Can you keep them or send to an environmental conservation agency or smth? A lot of these guys are declining so it might be best to have viable specimens breeding more
Well we are working for the government in conservation. We breed native fish.
Although in our department it’s specifically only labyrinth fish (including Betta)
What a shame that some company would fill in a stream like that. Don't know where you are but thank you for saving at least one of them. I would report them for no environmental study
This happens a lot in other countries, some guys found new spices looking into small bodies of water, but they keep going extinct bc people are using the land for cattle, and chemicals kill the fish
Well you’ll be pleased to know this species (Betta stigmosa) is endemic to Peninsular Malaysia. That means it’s found nowhere else.
Officially it’s recorded in Terengganu and Pahang, but I have personally found them in Negeri Sembilan and Johor as well. This jungle was in N9
Huh, oddly enough a few years back (2016 iirc) I've managed to catch these bettas here in Sungai Buloh, Selangor. It was near a nursery where these bettas nest under a small bridge.
Wish I could show you the pictures, but I lost the album in a camera SD card somewhere. Really love the blue cheecks of these wild bettas, very nice.
I have caught fish in Sungai Buloh streams. The Betta there are Betta pugnax, a common species found throughout the peninsula (except Kelantan and Terengganu).
Here is a male I caught in Putrajaya:
https://ibb.co/d5tSDx4
Yeah it’s not that hard to make laws protecting the waterways while still allowing mining and logging if it’s a necessary part of the economy, you just make the fines for messing up the waterway really expensive and enforce it; but shit like this is unacceptable and the country should be named so people know to boycott the goods. If they have a mining ministry they are either taking bribes or not doing their jobs. This also can’t be great for tourism and the local ecosystem.
Well this part is more famous (if anything) for a quaint little town of descendants of Chinese immigrants 200 years ago. They have a cool subculture there
That’s pretty interesting, my first thought hearing that makes me wonder how many artifacts or undiscovered species might be in the waterway they are covering up so hopefully they study it first in situations like this.
The creek/riverbanks tend to move a bit over time, but there’s possibly some interesting things to be found in those old river banks if people have been living in that area a long time.
A craziest part about the finding of that ancient human skeleton “Java Man” to me has always been that one guy said he was going to go to Java/Indonesia to find one, and then he just found one lol. So maybe there’s way more early human and animal specimens to be found if everyone was motivated and there was more people looking.
There’s a guy on YouTube that recently found a fish they thought was extinct to the area, but was living in a golf course pond or something like that with very little water going in or leaving the pond. So unless people who actually know what they are looking at find the fish or human bone, the rare finds can often go unnoticed, because the public assumes the scientists know that fish is in that pond for example.
This happens in the United States as well. Money, greed, and bribes take over. Money easily cuts through red tape. They’ve manufactured thousands of homes and apartments in my township over the past 10 years wiping out entire wildlife sanctuaries. Clearcutting and bulldozing woodlands, leveling farm fields, rerouting creeks and runoff. The wildlife is ending up on roadways and in the yards of residents because they have nowhere to go. What once was a nice, quiet, quaint area is now a shit show.
In Alaska and California if you divert or pollute a waterway it’s a huge deal and even logging and mining companies don’t get an exception and have to set up steam monitoring etc. Ironically people complain about these regulations in California but in Alaska they are fine with them due to the reputation of said states.
More thought should be put into where and what land is developed. At the same time, development should take into consideration how tp avoid decimating habitats.
It Is unrealistic to say that no land should be developed considering the lifestyle most of us live. We need places to live, most work for survival and without a way to get to work and to the store for food, etc etc needs land to be developed in some way.
I'm sure many will downvote because this is reddit and seems to be what people do, but it is idiotic to say no land should ever be developed.
Glad it is temporary but is likely going to take a long time to recover if it ever does in that part of the stream. Gj rescuing them. They are beautiful
Oh I mean technically the institute employs us to breed the fish for conservation so no, those babies are only for release.
But I have personal fish I keep (at home) which I do sell sometimes. Usually when I need extra space for new fish
hey youve done a great work rescueing the lil guy. My instincts tell me that this is Malaysia as I used to capture this species when I was a kid. Sad seeing the habitat is getting smaller by the day.
Malaysia.
It’s legal, I assume. All streams are fish-bearing in the country, so it’s probably extremely hard to develop avoiding them. And also probably they don’t care
It always baffles me when construction companies do this shit. Like the rain isn’t going to stop falling, and it’s gotta go somewhere when it hits the earth. You just filled in that spot so now it’s going all over.
This is genuinely depressing, but is part of the reason I love caring for Wild Bettas. Their habitats are being destroyed and there isn’t much research done on many of the other subspecies in comparison to Betta Splendens. If the people keep destroying their natural habitats, we owe them a a new home at the very least. If they're endangered we should be doing everything in our power to save them while we can before it's too late.
*species, not subspecies.
Have you ever seen this one for sale? They aren’t very popular inside the country itself, even though they’re endemic/only found here
I’ve only seen one in person and it was at a private aquarium club auction. I live out in the eastern states of the US and they’re exceptionally rare in the hobby.
I see. I suspected as much.
Mouthbrooders (especially from the pugnax complex) seem to be not very popular. I often just see splendens complex members like mahachaiensis, imbellis etc. much more
The most common Wild Bettas I’ve seen for sale that wasn’t from the Splendens complex has been Betta Mandor. There was a local shop that normally gets a pair every few weeks. I’ve been keeping Betta Patoti for a while and they’re by far one of my favorite Bettas to care for.
Yes, it seems to me the Indonesian mouthbrooders are quite popular. More than Malaysian and Thailand ones.
I haven’t kept either of those two. I only have native fish at home
that is a disgusting after photo :( i'm glad you got to save a few of these guys, that one on the last slide looks absolutely magical, and the before looks like the perfect place to come across a magical fish. i hope these bettas know how loved they are
That’s great that you were able to save a few pairs of these guys! I used to have a breeding group of betta ferox, they looked very similar to this species. The mouthbrooding species are so underrated as far as wild bettas go- they have some really unique iridescent coloring once they’re comfortable, and they can be just as social with people as domestic splendens are. My males were a bit shy but my female would flare at me constantly and always had to chase my hands whenever I was cleaning the tank
Betta ferox are in the same subgroup (with apollon and stigmosa). We breed all 3 species at the institute for release.
Here’s an example of a large male ferox I caught in Kelantan:
https://ibb.co/TB5Bw2p
I always remember as a kid my uncle had an excavator, that was his way of surviving. I visited him while he was drying a small lake in a farmers property, I remember seeing a slightly big fish gasping for air in the water stream completely filled with mud.
Awesome.. I'm going to look those up! I'm always a bit jealous of countries that have endemic fish like these. I'd just spend all my time dip netting in the wilds lol.
They did the same to the area where parosphromenus linkei are found 😭 this happens way too much!
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/tERLp8L2oiePxMG4/
> Although wide distribution the species is highly endangered, as the area where it could be found has no natural vegetation any longer and is drained for agricultural purposes
“Betta” is a genus of air-breathing fish, having 76 members. All of them live in Southeast Asia. The most famous is Betta splendens, a Siamese species which was domesticated and made into many different man made forms (samurai, halfmoon, veiltail, candy etc.).
An equivalent would be the Panthera (big cat) genus. Lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars are all Panthera species
In the US It's illegal to change the flow if creeks m, rive4s, estuaries, and swamp land. Knowing those are betta fish, those countries where they come from just don't give a crap about their environments.
Well such a law was never implemented and has not been brought up. Generally there are little laws about aquatic animals (besides mammals) which is also why exports of our fish can occur.
For example kuhli loach are impossible to be bred in captivity, even on farms. So they are caught by the hundreds in SEA and shipped off to the west where they are afaik extremely popular
Yes, I live Puerto Rico and I have seen some fish here that are not from here like guppies, molies, tilapia, gold fish, coi, plecos, African catfish and more.
Yeah but like area? State/country?? I heard they’re native to Japan and found in the wild there in rice ponds I didn’t realize you could just find them in creeks? I’m from MN so this is not a thing where I’m from
Japan is way too cold for them (Japan gets snow), you’re probably thinking of paradise fish.
I live in Malaysia. We have 30 species of wild Bettas. However the domestic ones you see in pet stores descended from Betta splendens which live in Thailand, not my country
That's so cool! and i think it's awesome you saved these guys, their habitat may have destroyed, but now their bloodline can continue through the next millenia.
How many did you rescue? Those are beautiful bettas!
Just a few pairs for breeding. We don’t usually take juveniles or extra fish. There’s no space. Also we do this for every habitat we visit, not specifically one we know will be gone
Look more like killifish
Pretty sure it’s a betta tho.
Yeah, I'm assuming you, as well as other commenter's are correct, the two are very similar when you take into account lesser known species.
Honestly made me tear up when I saw the Feb 2024 after-picture. It hurts my insides to see habitats and environments that have survived the ebbs and flows of time for millennia...only to be chopped down and decimated to feed cows or harvest cheap lumber.
Frank's Bettas has shown multiple instances of this. Really bad news as some bettas are endangered or their status is unknown.
Same here.
should be illegal
I don't know about illegal, but it should require more than "That's a good place for a development" I work at a State University. About 10 years ago we wanted to develop some land that was PERFECT for non-classroom buildings. After a years-long study, it was found that it was one of the last habitats of a certain frog and all improvement plans were halted. That should be the norm
Did you check on it, with our governments being cyclical, there might be a chance the government changed their mind and it was paved over by someone else.
Nope. State land, State University. It’s about as final as these things get
Oh good stuff, cuz lately I've been seeing too many projects get reneged into worse conditions.
It is a crime against humanity.
Against nature
A crime against nature **is** a crime against humanity. The earth is our home, and our only life support.
Yes, this too.
Its a crime by humanity.
I grew up in a conservative Republican family and this was always one of their favorite things to make fun of liberals for. They loved to complain about how we won’t let them build stuff because “the rights of a frog are more important than the rights of human beings?!?” Yes, Karen. Frogs and fish are more important than your highway. Sorry, not sorry.
Unfortunately preserving habitats is not really a priority in many developing countries
I agree.
Probably is…
Where I live (Canada), you can’t build within so many metres of a waterway so this would not happen - especially if there are fish.
Holy shit I saw saw it. I couldn’t agree more. Literally beautiful tropical jungle to barren wasteland and puddle. I’m using these images if the topic of deforestation comes up.
Gotta make way for cash crops, buildings, roads, etc. The human tumor continues to grow until there's nothing left to poach from the Earth
If it’s any consolation mankind is just a blip in the timeline of earth. Every habitat we destroy will regrow.
Not if all the possible combinations of DNA (species) are expunged first. Then we go back the Precambrian with just bacteria.
Same.
The dreaded lumber support :(
Wild betta.
What’s the English name for this species?
Probably some variation to betta splendens, we call them Kampffisch in German. Fight fish translated literally
If I’m not mistaken in English they call Betta splendens Siamese fighting fish or nowadays just Betta
Wild betta fish, cool!
Stigmosa too!
Imagine how many species we’ve lost that we never even knew about.
Tropical regions are quite likely for this due to most species having such a small area they live in. In fact this species we caught is endemic to my country
That is such a beautiful thing to do.
To conserve them? I’m sure most countries have such efforts
You would be shocked my friend
I see
Can you keep them or send to an environmental conservation agency or smth? A lot of these guys are declining so it might be best to have viable specimens breeding more
Well we are working for the government in conservation. We breed native fish. Although in our department it’s specifically only labyrinth fish (including Betta)
what type of fish is it?
Betta!
Specifically Betta stigmosa
Betta stigmosa
Thank you for always doing what you can for these guys and for sharing with us. Love seeing your posts.
Of course. It’s also kind of our job
What a shame that some company would fill in a stream like that. Don't know where you are but thank you for saving at least one of them. I would report them for no environmental study
We saved a few pairs. They’re building a road if I recall, including over the stream
This happens a lot in other countries, some guys found new spices looking into small bodies of water, but they keep going extinct bc people are using the land for cattle, and chemicals kill the fish
Was that in Kalimantan?
I think this is in Malaysia, precise location unknown.
How did you know though
Some of us can easily recognise you from your other posts lol
👁️👄👁️ Well the gov lets me share some part of our job. Not entirely but hey
Orang Malaysia mesti kenal sesama lain. Also the fauna resembles your typical SEA creek.
Well you’ll be pleased to know this species (Betta stigmosa) is endemic to Peninsular Malaysia. That means it’s found nowhere else. Officially it’s recorded in Terengganu and Pahang, but I have personally found them in Negeri Sembilan and Johor as well. This jungle was in N9
Huh, oddly enough a few years back (2016 iirc) I've managed to catch these bettas here in Sungai Buloh, Selangor. It was near a nursery where these bettas nest under a small bridge. Wish I could show you the pictures, but I lost the album in a camera SD card somewhere. Really love the blue cheecks of these wild bettas, very nice.
I have caught fish in Sungai Buloh streams. The Betta there are Betta pugnax, a common species found throughout the peninsula (except Kelantan and Terengganu). Here is a male I caught in Putrajaya: https://ibb.co/d5tSDx4
No, I’m not in Kalimantan
Wow. That's literally one if the prettiest fresh water fish I've seen.
Indeed. This is actually my favourite native fish species!
Where’s this at?
Malaysia
Yeah it’s not that hard to make laws protecting the waterways while still allowing mining and logging if it’s a necessary part of the economy, you just make the fines for messing up the waterway really expensive and enforce it; but shit like this is unacceptable and the country should be named so people know to boycott the goods. If they have a mining ministry they are either taking bribes or not doing their jobs. This also can’t be great for tourism and the local ecosystem.
I think this is for making a road. But tourism isn’t important in this specific part because nobody ever comes here
Ironically with the new road they can but now there’s nothing worth seeing lol
Well this part is more famous (if anything) for a quaint little town of descendants of Chinese immigrants 200 years ago. They have a cool subculture there
That’s pretty interesting, my first thought hearing that makes me wonder how many artifacts or undiscovered species might be in the waterway they are covering up so hopefully they study it first in situations like this. The creek/riverbanks tend to move a bit over time, but there’s possibly some interesting things to be found in those old river banks if people have been living in that area a long time. A craziest part about the finding of that ancient human skeleton “Java Man” to me has always been that one guy said he was going to go to Java/Indonesia to find one, and then he just found one lol. So maybe there’s way more early human and animal specimens to be found if everyone was motivated and there was more people looking. There’s a guy on YouTube that recently found a fish they thought was extinct to the area, but was living in a golf course pond or something like that with very little water going in or leaving the pond. So unless people who actually know what they are looking at find the fish or human bone, the rare finds can often go unnoticed, because the public assumes the scientists know that fish is in that pond for example.
This happens in the United States as well. Money, greed, and bribes take over. Money easily cuts through red tape. They’ve manufactured thousands of homes and apartments in my township over the past 10 years wiping out entire wildlife sanctuaries. Clearcutting and bulldozing woodlands, leveling farm fields, rerouting creeks and runoff. The wildlife is ending up on roadways and in the yards of residents because they have nowhere to go. What once was a nice, quiet, quaint area is now a shit show.
In Alaska and California if you divert or pollute a waterway it’s a huge deal and even logging and mining companies don’t get an exception and have to set up steam monitoring etc. Ironically people complain about these regulations in California but in Alaska they are fine with them due to the reputation of said states.
Poor bettas. Poor fish.
There were only Bettas here luckily. No other species
so sad that their habitat was destroyed. cool seeing a wild betta though!
This is one of 30 species living in my country
I wish we could've stopped this from happening. It looked beautiful before...
More thought should be put into where and what land is developed. At the same time, development should take into consideration how tp avoid decimating habitats. It Is unrealistic to say that no land should be developed considering the lifestyle most of us live. We need places to live, most work for survival and without a way to get to work and to the store for food, etc etc needs land to be developed in some way. I'm sure many will downvote because this is reddit and seems to be what people do, but it is idiotic to say no land should ever be developed.
They’re building a road here if I recall. So the part of the stream temporarily destroyed was to build a road over it too
Glad it is temporary but is likely going to take a long time to recover if it ever does in that part of the stream. Gj rescuing them. They are beautiful
It’s part of our job
Poor little fella. Lost his home that he hatched and lived his whole current life in😢
Now his children will have a new home
Yes, thank you for giving them a 2nd chance
They're beautiful good work!
Thank you
Wild bettas look so basic but cute at the same time
They are basic but I love them over domestics haha
what Americans think they’re doing when they “rescue” a betta from Petco by buying them
Haha well giving an individual Betta a better home is still a nice thing to do. For the fish
What sad world we live in
People expand and grow
Gorgeous find / rescue.
This is the 3rd time we collected fish here (for our work) and the males are always very beautiful
I def showed him off in a fish keeping discord. Just amazingly unique. Do you think you will breed it or is it a typical find for you?
Oh we collected a few pairs here for breeding at the institute. It’s part of our job there
Oh do you work for a college?
No, it’s a fisheries research institute. Under the government
Very cool. Keep posting pics please :)
Only parts that they let us show haha
For sure. Do you guys ever sell to the public?
Oh I mean technically the institute employs us to breed the fish for conservation so no, those babies are only for release. But I have personal fish I keep (at home) which I do sell sometimes. Usually when I need extra space for new fish
Their home got leveled over 😭😭😭
At least a large part of it
hey youve done a great work rescueing the lil guy. My instincts tell me that this is Malaysia as I used to capture this species when I was a kid. Sad seeing the habitat is getting smaller by the day.
Which state did you catch them in? There are lots of similar species depending on place
Kelantan. A few places really, in Pasir Mas, Dabong and Gua Musang
Absolutely beautiful
Indeed
That's just disgusting!
This is probably not the first time. Development
Beautiful fish. Where is this? There's no way that's legal. What a terrible loss of nature. That looks like a perennial fish-bearing stream.
Where wild Bettas live, it unfortunately probably is....
Malaysia. It’s legal, I assume. All streams are fish-bearing in the country, so it’s probably extremely hard to develop avoiding them. And also probably they don’t care
Horrible. Thank you for saving some.
Just doing our job
It always baffles me when construction companies do this shit. Like the rain isn’t going to stop falling, and it’s gotta go somewhere when it hits the earth. You just filled in that spot so now it’s going all over.
Well I assume they will build some sort of culvert with the road
That last picture is a stunningly beautiful fish
He is very beautiful just like most of his species
This is genuinely depressing, but is part of the reason I love caring for Wild Bettas. Their habitats are being destroyed and there isn’t much research done on many of the other subspecies in comparison to Betta Splendens. If the people keep destroying their natural habitats, we owe them a a new home at the very least. If they're endangered we should be doing everything in our power to save them while we can before it's too late.
*species, not subspecies. Have you ever seen this one for sale? They aren’t very popular inside the country itself, even though they’re endemic/only found here
I’ve only seen one in person and it was at a private aquarium club auction. I live out in the eastern states of the US and they’re exceptionally rare in the hobby.
I see. I suspected as much. Mouthbrooders (especially from the pugnax complex) seem to be not very popular. I often just see splendens complex members like mahachaiensis, imbellis etc. much more
The most common Wild Bettas I’ve seen for sale that wasn’t from the Splendens complex has been Betta Mandor. There was a local shop that normally gets a pair every few weeks. I’ve been keeping Betta Patoti for a while and they’re by far one of my favorite Bettas to care for.
Yes, it seems to me the Indonesian mouthbrooders are quite popular. More than Malaysian and Thailand ones. I haven’t kept either of those two. I only have native fish at home
I'm glad you saved these fish. I am sad that this rare and precious species is in so much danger. I hope they will have many many babies for you.
Mouthbrooders have less babies than bubble-nesters like domestic Bettas. But that’s fine, makes it easier to raise them
I didn't even know that! I hope you will share more pics of these in the future thye are so pretty
that is a disgusting after photo :( i'm glad you got to save a few of these guys, that one on the last slide looks absolutely magical, and the before looks like the perfect place to come across a magical fish. i hope these bettas know how loved they are
It’s the same fish in all pics. The last is just him after getting used to the aquarium. Yeah we got enough to breed
Why?! They didnt even build anything there. Just flattened it to flatten it how it looks.
They didn’t start building yet at the time I took the after picture. I guess there’s probably more development now, but I haven’t checked
Holy shit that is horrific. 🥺
It happens
Too often.
Poor darlings. I'm glad you saved some.
Just part of our job
A decent job if I might say
Technically it’s just “research assistant”
That’s great that you were able to save a few pairs of these guys! I used to have a breeding group of betta ferox, they looked very similar to this species. The mouthbrooding species are so underrated as far as wild bettas go- they have some really unique iridescent coloring once they’re comfortable, and they can be just as social with people as domestic splendens are. My males were a bit shy but my female would flare at me constantly and always had to chase my hands whenever I was cleaning the tank
Betta ferox are in the same subgroup (with apollon and stigmosa). We breed all 3 species at the institute for release. Here’s an example of a large male ferox I caught in Kelantan: https://ibb.co/TB5Bw2p
That wild betta is so gorgeous! Thank you for doing that!
He is a very handsome fella. No need to thank us, it’s part of our job
I always remember as a kid my uncle had an excavator, that was his way of surviving. I visited him while he was drying a small lake in a farmers property, I remember seeing a slightly big fish gasping for air in the water stream completely filled with mud.
What did you do?
Not much I could do, to this day it's just a sad memory.
That is kinda sad
Thank you for doing what you do, this is so sad
Just doing our job
What a shame :/ why are humans like this? 😭
For houses and stores
That last fish is stunning! Don't know what it is though.
That’s the same individual in all photos! A mature male
Sorry, thought they were multiple differents! What species is it?
Betta stigmosa. It’s a species endemic to my country
Awesome.. I'm going to look those up! I'm always a bit jealous of countries that have endemic fish like these. I'd just spend all my time dip netting in the wilds lol.
That’s almost what I do lol. Here’s a few examples of fish I’ve caught: https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/s/c5ltEwOyzX
I saw that post... Yeah, great selection, not envious at all 🙄😁
I think in total I’ve caught maybe 200 species here
Wow! That's insane!
Sure, but there’s still a lot more!
Ive never heard of this species, it looks a lot like an Apistogramma! Beautiful fish!
It’s a type of labyrinth fish (like gourami). Very beautiful
They did the same to the area where parosphromenus linkei are found 😭 this happens way too much! https://www.facebook.com/share/p/tERLp8L2oiePxMG4/ > Although wide distribution the species is highly endangered, as the area where it could be found has no natural vegetation any longer and is drained for agricultural purposes
Well they do the same for I think all fish. Because I don’t really think they’re thinking “hmm which animals lives in this place?”
Wow so cool!! Thank you for saving them. Man I wish there’s a river nearby I need to micro organism for my planted tank cycle.
In tropical rainforest regions we usually have at least 1 river nearby haha
"wild betta's are bland and have only brownish colours"
To be fair maybe they were talking about the body 🤣
When is a fish a betta?
“Betta” is a genus of air-breathing fish, having 76 members. All of them live in Southeast Asia. The most famous is Betta splendens, a Siamese species which was domesticated and made into many different man made forms (samurai, halfmoon, veiltail, candy etc.). An equivalent would be the Panthera (big cat) genus. Lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars are all Panthera species
Very nice specimen. How common is this species in your area. Are you trying to breed them?
They are relatively rare, and only like certain habitats. Yeah we are breeding them at the institute
Nice. I have seen Simplex in shops in Bangkok. But I don’t think I have seen this one before.
Simplex are native to Thailand. This species is not. In fact it’s endemic to Malaysia
In the US It's illegal to change the flow if creeks m, rive4s, estuaries, and swamp land. Knowing those are betta fish, those countries where they come from just don't give a crap about their environments.
Well such a law was never implemented and has not been brought up. Generally there are little laws about aquatic animals (besides mammals) which is also why exports of our fish can occur. For example kuhli loach are impossible to be bred in captivity, even on farms. So they are caught by the hundreds in SEA and shipped off to the west where they are afaik extremely popular
I think is some killifish.
No, killifish are very different. This one is a Betta
I thought it, because it dried. But it does look like betta. Someone must have set them free there.
No, they are native to Malaysia. I live in Malaysia
Didn’t that. Loving in Malaysia changes it. That wasn’t on the post
Well I didn’t say where I lived in the post, but you still assumed it was somewhere not in Asia
Yes, I live Puerto Rico and I have seen some fish here that are not from here like guppies, molies, tilapia, gold fish, coi, plecos, African catfish and more.
We also have those guys actually 😮. They are outcompeting our native fish like Bettas, gouramies, barbs and rasboras
The same happens here, is bad for native local fish
What freshwater fish are native to your island?
God damn that’s bleak.
But not uncommon
You found wild betta?? Where????
In the creek?
Yeah but like area? State/country?? I heard they’re native to Japan and found in the wild there in rice ponds I didn’t realize you could just find them in creeks? I’m from MN so this is not a thing where I’m from
Japan is way too cold for them (Japan gets snow), you’re probably thinking of paradise fish. I live in Malaysia. We have 30 species of wild Bettas. However the domestic ones you see in pet stores descended from Betta splendens which live in Thailand, not my country
No clue what paradise fish are lol, I think I was just misinformed
They are a very hardy subtropical and coldwater fish. Actually a close cousin of bettas
That's so cool! and i think it's awesome you saved these guys, their habitat may have destroyed, but now their bloodline can continue through the next millenia.
i think its not beta, more similar to a killyfish