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No. The Siamese Fighting Fish is an artificial hybrid and as such does not exist in nature. The ancestor species that were uses to create the various types of fighting fish, called pla-kad, are native to the rice paddies of Thailand, Malaysia, and Cambodia.

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I has fore bettas so bettas live in the us cause I do Answer: Well in addition to that answer, Betta's are native to Japan which is where the name "Japanese Fighting Fish" came from.


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