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Anonymous
/an/, have you ever fought betta fish? My buddy and I have raised two separately and are going to be fighting them this week. Any tips to get a decisive victory as soon as possible?
There is money on the line.

in b4 animal-crueltyfags
>> Ragnaros the Firelord
just put them in with each other. duh.

also underage b&.
>> Anonymous
>>237608
I'm in college, don't judge me because I have a friend.
>> Anonymous
boring. Try to get some plakats if you want to see some real fighting.

Bettas stop fighting sometimes when they get injured or tired, or if the water is too cold or warm. Plakats will keep going no matter what until one of they is physically unable to swim... even if their opponent is nothing but a severed head.

As for tips, keep it in a larger container, with a small, but relatively slow current going if possible. Feed it frozen blood worms, none of that freeeze dried or pellet crap. As for the fighting arena, make sure the water is treated, and approximately the temp of the water your fish is in, otherwise you'll get a stupid pecking battle with no real winner/loser.
>> Anonymous
How are you going to determine which fish has won? Is it a fight to the death, or is the fish that backs down first the loser? Not an animal-crueltyfag, just curious.
>> Anonymous
>>237614
To the death, or either of us can throw in the towel at any point.
>> Anonymous
>>237613
Oh yeah, and another important thing... put it next to a mirror every now and then (But don't keep it there forever!)
>> Anonymous
>>237611

Okay how bout for acting like an underage b&. Having two animals fight to the death for money is just wrong in my book. Even if they are fish.

But despite that. Make sure you have a fish that won't just swim away. I've owned a few perfectly healthy bettas who've hid at the sight of their own reflection. (I assure you this isn't the norm, but it does happen on occasion.) Depends on the personality really. Of course any scared animal will fight if pushed far enough. By that point though it'll have lost any advantage it could of gotten over the other by being weakened by the more aggressive betta.

Beh find something better to bet on. A sport or something.
>> Anonymous
>>237642
Meh, they're not as personifyable as a dog. It's just a fish, their brain is probably smaller than a pea. Doesn't do any of my morals wrong.

Oh, and I tried the mirror thing, I totally got him to run back and forth at his reflection.
>> Anonymous
Decisive victory? Not going to happen between a pair of bettas. The most they're going to do is rip each others' fins off, which they can live without and will grow back quickly, anyway. Maybe one or both will slowly die of stress afterwards.
Maybe.
>> Anonymous
My father and I fought two bettas once and it was gruesome. It was tame at first, actually so boring we left for 15 minutes. But when we came back, the red one had no fins and was being dragged around the tank by the blue betta. Fucked murdered.
>> Anonymous
You know what fighting animals looks like to the sane world? Makes you look like a humongous faggot making up for the fact that he can't fight himself, and acting out his puny post-pubescent aggression on animals. Why don't you grow some balls, lift some weights, and learn how to fight yourself instead of masturbating furiously while watching some damned fish tear each other apart. Become a real man and not some regressed teenager getting off on the power he has over fucking -fish-.

My god. Go have a real man's fisticuffs, you pansy ass.
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>>237613
yeah. Get a plakat. It will rape your friend's betta. Be careful you don't just get a female betta though.
>> Anonymous
>>237653
Right on man... right on.
>> Anonymous
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Fighting animals?... Even lame ass fish who really don't count as pets... Sick&Wrong.

= Lover not Fighter
>> Anonymous
>>237644
>>It's just a fish, their brain is probably smaller than a pea.
>>probably

Not looking so hot in the smarts department yourself, kiddo.
>> Anonymous
>>237653
QFT! They're not fucking Pokemon!
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>> Anonymous
in the wild bettas don't fight to the death; once one is sufficiently intimidated it will swim away-- imo that's the decisive victory you shd be looking for, since from that point any further damage is completely unnecessary and completely gratuitous. in addition, i'd concur with the posts about getting plakats- bettas were bred for their pretty value, theyre shitty fighters anyway.
>> Anonymous
>>237653
Yeah, because Michael Vick couldn't kick the shit out of anyone.