Sparrowpaw the great wrote:I need help :3 My friend has shown me a store where you can buy Betta fish that were bred in cold-water. We asked, and they showed us where they bred them. The fish were absolutely fine.
How is this even possible? And if it is, how do you breed them?
It's not possible.
They're either lying to you, don't understand bettas, or are very naive or are very obnoxious thinking they can change genetics like that.
Bettas can survive in cold water, doesn't mean they're living happily and will have shorter life spans than a betta with a heater at the right temperature in a correctly sized tank. Just because something looks okay doesn't mean it is.
And they can still breed in bad conditions, just like other fish and animals.
I wouldn't buy a tropical fish bred in cold water, nor would I buy a puppy from a puppy farm.
This is how people buy goldfish and bettas thinking they're fine in tiny bits of water, when if you do a bit of research this is obviously wrong. Betta fish are tropical fish, there's no changing that no matter how much you breed them.
You can't just drastically change a fish like that.
That's like saying you've bred cats to eat only vegetables, it doesn't work like that.
You can breed colours and behaviour in, fin shape and even body shape, but you can't change things like diet and the environment they're is best suited in.
