coreyweinkoetz;2597487; said:
This is not surprising. This is corporate america in the animal trade.
micstarz;2598100; said:
It's not a plakat. It's a Libby's betta...Betta splendens but just bred selectively for size...just like how you would breed for color or finnage.
The Libby strain is a strain that appeared in veils. Simply put, larger veils.
The fish pictured is a basic Plakat.
Amante_di_Betta;2883407; said:
Its a giant HMPK (Halfmoon giant plakat). They are just giants. Nothing spectacular. PetCo likes to label things with catchy names..it works sometimes and other times it fails because they mislable things wrong.
The fish is a standard PK. To qualify as a HMPK the fish would have to have more than a 2 ray count.
Hmong_Xiong;2884993; said:
The gaint trait is now forever lost 3 inch isn't big. Long ago gaint bettas got up to 7inches.
I suspect that the 7" giant betta trait was a myth. There have never been any pictures to prove a 7" betta, neither from asian breeders or Jim Sonnier. And even if there was I don't think a 7"
PK could have ever been possible as any "giant betta" I've seen that makes it bigger than 3.75" is a long finned variety, so the Giant size on the 7" betta would have been a lot of fin anyway.
A standard giant PK will be 3"TL and a few may reach 4", these sizes include fins and naturally run higher for long finned bettas but this is still inches short of internet claims of a 7" betta.