Betta renata Juveniles
Photo by Colin Dunlop
Keeping Betta renata from an Aquarist
Betta renata can be housed in pairs, species
tanks, and community tanks. Pairs can be housed in a 20 gallon tank,
groups should be housed in a 55 gallon tank or larger. Pairs should
be given cover such as caves and plants. In a pair or species
situation it is possible that fry could be discovered in the tanks.
Betta renata should have soft acidic water that
is well filtered. They should be kept at mid 70s F.
Males are more intensely colored. Males also have
pointed dorsal and anal fins whereas females are rounder.
Renata is a paternal mouthbrooder.
||Similar species would be all waseri complex members.
||Identification is based upon the face stripes.
Articles on Betta renata
Big, Yellow Mouthbrooders Stefan vd. Voort. 2003.
Articles on related species
I’ve Got a New Mouthbrooding Betta – Now What? Michael Hellweg. 2003.
wild Bettas Gerald Griffin. Flare! 2006
Attempts at Spawning Betta pi Gerald
||Tan, H. H. 1998. 
||Rantau Panjang, 1°21'57.6"S, 103°54'55.2"E,
Jambi, Sumatra, Indonesia.
||CMK 13024 (3)
ZRC 39117 (3), 39265 (1), 40285-86 (7, 5)
||8.53 cm SL
||Occurs in blackwaters draining out
from peat swamp forests. Also collected from a flooded peat
swamp forest, among plant debris and logs in shallow tea-colored
water, with a pH of 4.1. 
||Derived from the Latin ren
(kidney), in allusion to the the kidney-shaped throat marking.
Differentiation From Similar Species:
||Distinguished from other members of
the B. waseri
group in having the following combination of characters: a
kidney-shaped black mark on the throat; faint vertical black
bars on the dorsal and caudal-fin interradial membranes; absence
of a dark distal border on anal fin; opercle with lower distal
margin black. 
Last modification submitted by Gerald Griffin