What Is A Marble Betta

This freshwater fish has a labyrinth organ which allows them to breath from the surface but they are best known for their beautiful fins and color.

What is a marble betta. Bettas are also known as siamese fighting fish and under no circumstances should male betta be housed together. The blue marble halfmoon bette morphed or some would say mutated into something else. Look for white betta. Marble is a name for a transposon jumping gene.

Most of the time they stop after a while. Created in the early 1970 s by orville gulley. 2 marble betta fish marble. A result of the.

Sometimes however they marble for a very long time or even all their life. They have a big chance of being marbled since cellophane white betta often pop up in marbled batches. Fins can show a marble like pattern or solid translucent coloration. Their colors appear blotchy and irregular often with a light pale solid body color with rich reds and blues creating a pattern.

So crossbreeding a marble and a solid colored betta fish will usually result in a spawn of mostly solid colored fish with a few marble patterned bettas thrown into the mix. Butterfly betta are also common carriers of the marbled genes so s he might start marbling. A dna sequence that can change its position within the genome as a result marble bettas often have splotches of pigment or areas without pigment all over their body and fins. Because the marble gene is a transposon its color is unstable and often marble bettas will develop more or less color throughout their entire lives.

In fact all the marbling effect disappeared. Male blue marble bettas are plakats shortfin and each possess a unique pattern of blue blotches on a white body. It changed from a blue white marble halfmoon betta into a halfmoon betta that is nearly solid blue.