Betta Marbling Out

The jumping gene recently a discovery was made in the science of genetics.

Betta marbling out.

I got myself a blue marble halfmoon betta. We can assume that the black pigment blocker shrunk. In fact marbling is pretty common. It can a nice surprise and it makes keeping marble betta interesting.

Check out for latest female bettas that we have available for release on our site. 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. We definitely recommend a betta fish with marbling if you want something new in your tank.

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. All that changed after i spawned him. Mine started out white but gained blue and purple splotches. Alex one of my beloved bettas.

The cool thing about any marbling pattern is that it can change over time. That is not uncommon at all. Betta types the many different stunning betta colors and fin types duration. At times the marbling enhances the betta and makes it more colourful and hence more pleasing to the eye.

These fish always seem to produce a few particolored offspring or marbles. But at other times it can turn out the other way around. 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. 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. Red orange and black are bred on top of a white colored fish. The koi betta is a variation of the marble type carefully selected through breeding. 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.

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. Fancy green halfmoon female betta.