Tail shapes

Breeders have developed several different tail shapes:

• Veiltail (non-symmetrical tail, only two rays)
• Crowntail (highly frilled or jagged rays, extended spiny rays, also called fringetail)
• Combtail (less extended version of the crown tail, derived from breeding crown and veil tails)
• Boxtyzard (full moon shape with red flairs)
• Half-moon (large tail fin that forms a 180-degree or larger circle segment)
• Short-finned fighting style (sometimes called "plakat")
• Double-tail (the tail fin is split into two lobes and the dorsal fin is significantly elongated)
• Delta tail (tail span is less than half-moon with sharp edges)
• Fantail (a rounded delta tail)
• Halfsun (Combtail with anal fin going 180 degrees, like a halfmoon)
• Rosetail (halfmoon with so much finnage that it overlaps and looks like a rose)

Veiltail

Crowntail

Combtail

Boxtyzard

Half-moon

Plakat

Double-tail

Delta tail

Fantail

Halfsun

Rosetail