Betta Fish Marble Gene

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.

Betta fish marble gene.

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. A result of the. You are bound to get at the least a quarter marbled fry. These patterns are not usually defined by colors and multiple patterns can appear on a fish making for a large range of possibilities.

Now let s say you breed 2 marbled betta. The black lace betta is a dark colored fish that rarely approaches the depth and intensity of the melano black 18. Well she sent in some photos of her betta fish and it became immediately obvious that she has a marble betta. Marble is used to describe a type of betta fish by its physical blotchy appearance but more importantly by the special genes they have called jumping genes or transposons as they are now called.

Displays of neurological condition. A lot of people in the fish community seem to believe this is the origin of marbling but keep in mind 40 of the human genome are transposons and we don t really marble. If the solid colored parent betta carries the marble gene the percentage of marbled fry increases. Marble is a name for a transposon jumping gene.

Patterns that appear on bettas are the result of gene s that modify the way pigment appears on the fish. But they all carry the gene. 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. Click subscribed to get a new video.

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. In fact marbling is pretty common.