What Is A Marble Betta

Bettas are also known as siamese fighting fish and under no circumstances should male betta be housed together.

What is a marble betta.

Marble is a name for a transposon jumping gene. Look for white betta. A result of the. Fins can show a marble like pattern or solid translucent coloration.

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

Male blue marble bettas are plakats shortfin and each possess a unique pattern of blue blotches on a white body. Their colors appear blotchy and irregular often with a light pale solid body color with rich reds and blues creating a pattern. Sometimes however they marble for a very long time or even all their life. Walt maurus and a number of other breeders began to block marble which led to their spread across the united states.

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. They have a big chance of being marbled since cellophane white betta often pop up in marbled batches. 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. In fact all the marbling effect disappeared.

It changed from a blue white marble halfmoon betta into a halfmoon betta that is nearly solid blue. The blue marble halfmoon bette morphed or some would say mutated into something else. Butterfly betta are also common carriers of the marbled genes so s he might start marbling.