Marble Betta Change Color

When the jumping gene leaves a particular location the skin pigmentation will revert to its original color.

Marble betta change color.

Marble is used to. Some betta fish have what is known a marble coloration to them. This a condition of a mutation called as jumping gene. What about marble betta color change.

There is a particular type of betta fish called marble betta fish. If you picked up a particularly young betta fish that hasn t really reached maturity yet. One other reason the purdy betta fish may change colors is when they go through a sort of betta fish puberty. In fact all the marbling effect disappeared.

What is a marble betta color changing fish. Originally uploaded by prismaviolet. If the marble genes are introduced into a line of solid colored true breeding betta fish it becomes almost impossible for the. Spawns of either dark or light bodied solid color betta fish from marble stock will produce three different offspring colorations.

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. As long as you re sure that it s not being caused by any of the problems above then don t worry. They ll always yield some solid color some marble and some variegated color fish. 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. It changed from a blue white marble halfmoon betta into a halfmoon betta that is nearly solid blue. The color change can either be momentary or permanent as the jumping gene is constantly moving around the marble betta fish body. A nippyfish reader wrote in concerned about some pretty serous color changes.

A marble betta can change from plain color to display large irregular patterns on its body. Well she sent in some photos of her betta fish and it became immediately obvious that she has a marble betta.