It changed from a blue white marble halfmoon betta into a halfmoon betta that is nearly solid blue.
Marble betta change color.
There is a particular type of betta fish called marble betta fish.
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.
In our last article we spoke about bettas that naturally change color over time.
A marble betta can change from plain color to display large irregular patterns on its body.
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Marble is used to.
If you have a marble betta then you may notice that their color is changing too.
What is a marble betta color changing fish.
Well she sent in some photos of her betta fish and it became immediately obvious that she has a marble betta.
Spawns of either dark or light bodied solid color betta fish from marble stock will produce three different offspring colorations.
What about marble betta color change.
In fact all the marbling effect disappeared.
If you picked up a particularly young betta fish that hasn t really reached maturity yet.
A nippyfish reader wrote in concerned about some pretty serous color changes.
If the marble genes are introduced into a line of solid colored true breeding betta fish it becomes almost impossible for the.
When the jumping gene leaves a particular location the skin pigmentation will revert to its original color.
I was expecting marble fishes to change colors but still retain its marbling but this one went further and transformed into a solid blue fish.
Some betta fish have what is known a marble coloration to them.
But of course when you take great care in proper feeding your betta fish may still maintain its full color.
One other reason the purdy betta fish may change colors is when they go through a sort of betta fish puberty.
They ll always yield some solid color some marble and some variegated color fish.