Common Name: Strawberry Betta, White Seam Betta
A small but fierce maroon and black labyrinth fish with white-margined fins that lives in East Kalimantan blackwater swamps. Their colors intensify or fade to golden-brown depending on their mood and their environment, like tiny chameleons with a limited color palette.
Betta albimarginata is closely related to Betta channoides, which is stockier than B. albimarginata and doesn’t have a white margin on its dorsal fin.
CARES lists Betta albimarginata as Vulnerable, but the IUCN Red List lists it as Endangered.
Category: Anabantids
Global Region: Southeast Asia
Distribution: East Kalimantan, Indonesia
CARES Classification: Vulnerable
IUCN Red List—Betta albimarginata
Aquarium Co-op Forum—Betta albimarginata breeding journal
Sunfish: Betta Albimarginata