Betta Svijet in AkTer! 2012 - Zagreb, Croatia

[Werther]

Dear italian friends, at the and of july Betta Svijet (Betta World) has become a new IBC chapter. Next year, at the beggining of october, we're planning to organize 1st International IBC exhibition in Croatia, where we hope to see lot's of italian breeders.

This year, during AkTer! 2012, we have exhibited some wild types of bettas and 36 show bettas. But this year it was a small competition of breeders and owners.

In next post I'll paste an article about how this year Betta Svijet presented bettas in Croatia, written by our president Ksenija Mijokovic.

[Werther]

Dear Associazione Italiana Betta friends! I'm happy to finaly bring some photos from the last AkTer! exhibition in Zagreb, Croatia!

As some of you may know, AkTer! Festival is a gathering of enthusiasts and an exhibiton of aquaristic and terraristic animals. First and foremost AkTer! is a humanitarian exhibition where goal is to help children in need. Also, emphasis is put on edjucation about those (exotic) animals and how to keep them.

Every year Betta Svijet (Betta World), which is a chapter of IBC, has it's stand, a "corner" as we like to call it - as a part of AkTer! aquaristic section. This year was particularly successful, given the feedback we got from visitors! Our main goal, which is to edjucate people about bettas - was very well accomplished, leaving some of the AkTer! visitors with new knowledge about betta wild species as well as about show bettas.

We had 6 wild betta aquariums with 6  betta species: b. albimarginata, b. mahachai, b. simplex, b. smaragdina, b. picta, b. ocellata. Further more, we had an exhibition shelf with 36 show bettas, plus cca. 20 more showed for sale. We held little betta show amongst those show bettas in 2 categories: visitors choice, and jury choice. We were satisfied to see that visitors quite liked the idea of voting for the pretiest betta, there was all together 892 votes!!

Here are some photos


Wild betta aquariums:



















Show bettas:

















Other...







Here are winner pictures. First are winners chosen by visitors.

1st place, multicolor DoubleTail owner: Morana Muzinic  249 (of 892) votes:





2nd place, multicolor CrownTail, bred by Nermin Huremovic, 127 (of 892) votes:





3rd place, marble blue HalfMoon, bred by Nermin Huremovic, 99 (of 892) votes:







First 3 show bettas by the choice of jury (Josip Kevari and Ksenija Mijokovic) by IBC standards:

1st place, marble blue HalfMoon bred by Nermin Huremovic





2nd place, bicolor HMPK female bred by Ksenija Mijokovic





3rd place, red HalfMoon, owner: Andrej Tihomirovic







Winners with their diplomas




This year we wanted to show people a taste of what it's like to show bettas. Next year a real deal is awaiting



Best regards!

Ksenija

[Alexander MacNaughton]

Good location and great photos!

[Roberto Silverii]

Hi Marijan!

Thanks a lot for sharing pictures and infos about this beautiful event! I do love how you set up tanks for wild form species..they're just awesome!
AYou did a great job and i want to come for sure to next show! that's great!

[MarZissimo]

Wonderful set up! Great job!

[Werther]

[quote="Alexander MacNaughton" post=49922]Good location and great photos! [/quote]
Yes, it's a good location, especially for italians.

For example, Trieste is 173 km far from Zagreb.
http://www.mapcrow.info/Distance_between_Trieste_IT_and_Zagreb_HR.html

[Alexander MacNaughton]

For me are more of 800 km! :whistle:

Friedrichshafen is more near!

[verdeblu]

Nice job! Jako dobro! :laugh:

[DavideVD]

So next year...Zagreb

[Werther]

I still hope that some of you will find a way to exhibit your bettas in Zagreb next year.

Till then I would like to show you more photos of AkTer 2012 exhibition. Author of all photos in next few posts is my aquaristic friend Petra Basic (nick Dellete in croatian aquaristic forums).

In aquaristic part of AkTer 2012, there were 50 aquariums with all together 8000 liters of water.

AQUARISTIC:

[Werther]

Cichlids (Central American, South American and African):

[Werther]

Bettas:










School experiments:




Education about invasive species:

[Werther]

Sea aquarium:












Picoscape contest:

[Roberto Silverii]

Such a great fair!!

[Werther]

Aquariums of 2 meter length: