Betta Marbling Out

It is a partially recessive genetic so if you have a betta with the marbling gene and you breed it to a betta with no marbling genetics you might get a few marbled fry.

Betta marbling out.

Check out for latest female bettas that we have available for release on our site. Alex one of my beloved bettas. A crossbreeding of a marble stock betta of one color type may cause the marbling effect in the pattern of a betta of a non marble type. The cool thing about any marbling pattern is that it can change over time.

When i first got him he had a nice marbling effect and his colors were quite vivid and had a good contrast. The jumping gene recently a discovery was made in the science of genetics. But at other times it can turn out the other way around. Red orange and black are bred on top of a white colored fish.

These fish always seem to produce a few particolored offspring or marbles. This is not a species found in the wild and was carefully bred over the years by aquarium hobbyist to preserve the most amazing characteristics and features. Betta types the many different stunning betta colors and fin types duration. Care tank setup betta diseases prevention 50 427 views.

I hope that you enjoy looking at these changes with me. I ve seen my young bettas reverse marble before but this time i have a lot that are going through it and it is really cool to observe. We can assume that the black pigment blocker shrunk. At times the marbling enhances the betta and makes it more colourful and hence more pleasing to the eye.

All that changed after i spawned him. That is not uncommon at all. The koi betta is a variation of the marble type carefully selected through breeding. In fact marbling is pretty common.

So you know what you are getting yourself into when you get a marble betta in any colours it is. As the betta grows the marbling of colors can change as well. As the name suggests this variation was bred to resemble the very popular koi pond fish. We definitely recommend a betta fish with marbling if you want something new in your tank.

I got myself a blue marble halfmoon betta. The marbling pattern makes betta look like koi fish.