Betta Fish Puzzle Game

Betta fish are beautiful. With their vibrant colors and long, flowing tails, betta splendens are thought to be the nicest looking fish around.

This classic puzzle game scrambles beautiful photographs of Betta Fish for the player to solve. Challenge your mind. Gaze upon beautiful fish.

• Beautiful photographs of Betta Fish

• Classic puzzle gameplay

• Adjustable difficulty to keep the challenge fresh

• Score keeping to see just how many puzzles you can solve

Some people of Thailand and Malaysia are known to have collected these fishes prior to the 19th century from the wild.

Some history of the Betta aka fighting fish:

In the wild, betta spar for only a few minutes or before one fish backs off. Bred specifically for heightened aggression for fighting, domesticated betta matches can go on for much longer, with winners determined by a willingness to continue fighting. Once a fish retreats, the match is over.

Seeing the popularity of these fights, the king of Thailand started licensing and collecting these fighting fish. In 1840, he gave some of his prized fish to a man who, in turn, gave them to Dr. Theodor Cantor, a medical scientist. Nine years later, Dr. Cantor wrote an article describing them under the name Macropodus pugnax. In 1909, the ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan, realizing a species was already named Macropodus pugnax, renamed the domesticated Siamese fighting fish Betta splendens.

1892 this species was imported to France by the French aquarium fish importer Pierre Carbonnier in Paris, and 1896 the German aquarium fish importer Paul Matte in Berlin, imported the first specimens to Germany from Moscow.

Wild fish exhibit strong colours only when agitated.[citation needed] Breeders have been able to make this coloration permanent, and a wide variety of hues breed true. Colours available to the aquarist include red, orange, yellow, blue, steel blue, turquoise/green, black, pastel, white ("opaque" white, not to be confused with albino), and multi-coloured fish.

Bettas are found in many different colours due to different layers of pigmentation in their skin. The layers (from furthest within to the outer layer) consists of red, yellow, black, iridescent (blue and green), and metallic (not a colour of its own, but reacts with the other colours to change how they are perceived). Any combination of these layers can be present, leading to a wide variety of colors.

The shades of blue, turquoise, and green are slightly iridescent, and can appear to change colour with different lighting conditions or viewing angles; this is because these colours (unlike black or red) are not due to pigments, but created through refraction within a layer of translucent guanine crystals. Breeders have also developed different colour patterns such as marble and butterfly, as well as metallic shades through hybridization like copper, gold, or platinum (these were obtained by crossing B. splendens to other Betta species).

Purple and blue female

A true albino betta has been feverishly sought since one recorded appearance in 1927, and another in 1953 .[citation needed] Neither of these was able to establish a line of true albinos. In 1994, a hobbyist named Kenjiro Tanaka claimed to have successfully bred albino bettas.