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Wine Red Betta
Betta coccina
Family: Osphronemidae
Betta coccina, the Wine Red Betta, is a small wild betta from blackwater peat swamps with an intense crimson-red body accented by a single iridescent blue-green spot on the flank. A paternal mouthbrooder, it is far less aggressive than B. splendens and can sometimes be maintained in pairs or small groups in very heavily planted species tanks. It demands soft, highly acidic water mimicking its blackwater habitat.
Keeping this species
- diet
- Carnivore – micro live foods, daphnia, mosquito larvae, micro pellets
- breeding
- Paternal mouthbrooder
- lifespan
- 3–5 years
- max size
- 4.5 cm (1.8 in)
- tank size
- 10 gallons minimum, species tank
- temperament
- Moderately territorial; pairs possible with care
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Water it likes
- ph
- 4.0–6.5
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <5 ppm
- hardness
- 0–5 dGH
- temperature
- 72–82°F (22–28°C)