Catching Wild Bettas in THAILAND for breeding conservation! Betta smaragdina natural habitat!

Some of you who follow my instagram probably know i've been working on this video for the past week so here it is, i hope it was somewhat educational and open up your views some more on their natural habitat.

PLEASE READ!!!
I DO NOT CATCH THESE FISH TO SELL!
Some may not fully understand about how conservation efforts work so i'll try my best explain how this all works for me before judging please know the work ive been putting into conservation that some of you may know me from my instagram @Franksbettas or an article about me on Biotopeone.com about wild bettas, that this habitat has been looked after by me for some years, i breed what i catch and re release the spawns back into these habitat to help boost their numbers and also relocate fish to new habitable locations. Some may wonder why we have to interfere with nature? but They're already fighting a losing battle so the reality is that without a helping hand to boost their numbers by breeding and re-releasing these fish wont last long for an example this habitat wont be here in the next 5 years guaranteed, so I breed release some back and move some of the fry i bred to a potentially new habitable location that they can thrive in.
If we let them be they'll breed one season a year sometime not even getting that chance to breed as fertiliser will disrupt this yearly when rice or potato are grown as farmers need these chemicals to help their crops so if we captive breed them they can breed every month. Catching 10 and breeding a few thousand fish to release and relocate does more good than do harm.
These are wild type bettas and so far from the domestic type bettas that you see in your pet stores or walmart as they're in their original wild type form, the domestics you see in your walmart in mass quantity have been selective bred for decades to look the way they look with different colours and fins but these wild bettas have been somewhat forgotten about and their population is in danger due to land destruction. So in the past three years I've been showing people on social media of the small conservation project that i do by myself for my regions species.

There are 5-6 different species in the splenden complex which is what makes up domestic bettas of today in which I'll make a video about in the next week or two when i get the chance.

I now only sell already established captive bred bloodlines that I've worked on for years on my instagram www.instagram.com/franksbettas which still retains their wild forms so they're still very genetically wild like. I aim only for the highest grade fish that meets the criteria of the Thai fisheries because wild betta is very big here in thailand but not so known worldwide but slowly picking up more hobbyist in the past 3 years

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these are the original species from where the genetics of your domestic bettas come from and I've work with betta smaragdinas here for year by breeding as a hobby and also re-releasing and re-locating them to new habitable areas.

In this video I take you on a small adventure into their natural environment to show you a side of my childhood. Enjoy

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