I found a poor little Betta in a huge lot on the shelves at Petsmart tonight. Light colored body, pink fins, and red eyes. I had to pick him up as he was swimming in his own dead scales. I brought him home and put him in with Angie the man hater for lack of space. She swims around him curiously and backs off and then kinda urges him to swim around a bit. Almost like she is smitten with him. They are of similar color too. He has a slight pinkness to his body wheras hers is all light creme. The fins are almost dead on in coloration. It seems that his bottom fin has deteriorated slightly, most likely from laying on it in the plastic cup he called home. The rays are in tact but the webbing looks ragged and missing in some areas. Any ideas? I was just going to keep some stress coat in there. He was laying on the bottom of the tank at first but now he is swimming around more. Here's a pic, sorry but the incandescent light doesn't do him justice.His name is Pinkerton... Pinky for short. So is he an albino or can bettas have red eyes?

One of Pinky trailing Angie behind.

I'm not sure if he is albino or not but he is very pretty.

That is not an albino. Albino bettas are very rare... and the ones that do pop up are weak.

Albino bettas are colorless.... totally colorless... and have pink eyes. Think .... pink eyed cellophane.

I hope you got him his own living quarters. You should always quarantine new fish.

Thanks for the replies. I have since learned that he is blind. Not quite totally but almost. He has about the same coloration as an Albino bettas eyes though. It compliments his body color too. If only he wasn't blind, it wold be perfect. he' still a happy fish though and like I said, I think he's quite beautiful.

Chances are he's a partial albino. He looks like he has too much pigment to be leucistic (and you normally expect lutinos to have dark eyes anyway). No matter what, it is rare for a betta to have red eyes, and that lets you know he has some sort of colour mutation going on :)
His eyes are probably very sensitive to light, so it would be best to keep him in a dimly lit area and avoid using a tank light with him. This should help with his eyesight somewhat.

EDIT: For the record, red pigment in bettas is the result of pterins, so you can have an amelanic albino with red pigmentation. The fish might also simply be an ocular albino, meaning it is only missing pigment in its eyes.

WOW! Thanks for the info. As to his condition, he actually seems to like it with the light on. I thin kthis might be due to him better differentiating the shadows, and thus leads me to believe the condition of his eyes is severe. Also the first thing he does when the light comes on is to swim towards it. I have trained him to go for one corner for his flakes. It beats what I had to do before, wet a toothpick and put each individual flake in front of his mouth. I have to take a new picture as well.. the areas of fin that rotted from being in the cup, are slowly growing back. At first the areas seemed to be teal, but now I notice they are transparent. Is it possible for a fish to go butterfly like that?

New finnage grows in clear and then colours up later :)