Marble Betta Change Color

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Marble betta change color.

Some betta fish have what is known a marble coloration to them. This a condition of a mutation called as jumping gene. Marble bettas rarely stay the same color their whole lives and they often end up changing colors multiple times throughout. What is a marble betta color changing fish.

A nippyfish reader wrote in concerned about some pretty serous color changes. Here are some of the pictures of a marble betta fish. The color change can either be momentary or permanent as the jumping gene is constantly moving around the marble betta fish body. Marble is used to.

Originally uploaded by prismaviolet. If you have a marble betta then you may notice that their color is changing too. There is a particular type of betta fish called marble betta fish. But of course when you take great care in proper feeding your betta fish may still maintain its full color.

Well she sent in some photos of her betta fish and it became immediately obvious that she has a marble betta. What about marble betta color change. Spawns of either dark or light bodied solid color betta fish from marble stock will produce three different offspring colorations. When the jumping gene leaves a particular location the skin pigmentation will revert to its original color.

In our last article we spoke about bettas that naturally change color over time. In fact all the marbling effect disappeared. If the marble genes are introduced into a line of solid colored true breeding betta fish it becomes almost impossible for the. It changed from a blue white marble halfmoon betta into a halfmoon betta that is nearly solid blue.

A marble betta can change from plain color to display large irregular patterns on its body. One other reason the purdy betta fish may change colors is when they go through a sort of betta fish puberty.