We definitely recommend a betta fish with marbling if you want something new in your tank.
Betta marbling out.
So you know what you are getting yourself into when you get a marble betta in any colours it is.
These fish always seem to produce a few particolored offspring or marbles.
At times the marbling enhances the betta and makes it more colourful and hence more pleasing to the eye.
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.
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The koi betta is a variation of the marble type carefully selected through breeding.
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.
Alex one of my beloved bettas.
The cool thing about any marbling pattern is that it can change over time.
It can a nice surprise and it makes keeping marble betta interesting.
I got myself a blue marble halfmoon betta.
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.
We can assume that the black pigment blocker shrunk.
I hope that you enjoy looking at these changes with me.
As the name suggests this variation was bred to resemble the very popular koi pond fish.
In fact marbling is pretty common.
That is not uncommon at all.
The marbling pattern makes betta look like koi fish.
All that changed after i spawned him.
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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.
The jumping gene recently a discovery was made in the science of genetics.
Fancy green halfmoon female betta.
Mine started out white but gained blue and purple splotches.
When i first got him he had a nice marbling effect and his colors were quite vivid and had a good contrast.