Marble Betta Change Color

What about marble betta color change.

Marble betta change color.

The color change can either be momentary or permanent as the jumping gene is constantly moving around the marble betta fish body. A marble betta can change from plain color to display large irregular patterns on its body. But of course when you take great care in proper feeding your betta fish may still maintain its full color. 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. They ll always yield some solid color some marble and some variegated color fish. It changed from a blue white marble halfmoon betta into a halfmoon betta that is nearly solid blue. In fact all the marbling effect disappeared.

Some betta fish have what is known a marble coloration to them. Marble is used to. If you picked up a particularly young betta fish that hasn t really reached maturity yet. Marble bettas rarely stay the same color their whole lives and they often end up changing colors multiple times throughout.

If you have a marble betta then you may notice that their color is changing too. 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. When the jumping gene leaves a particular location the skin pigmentation will revert to its original color. This a condition of a mutation called as jumping gene.

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. Here are some of the pictures of a marble betta fish. A nippyfish reader wrote in concerned about some pretty serous color changes.

In our last article we spoke about bettas that naturally change color over time. One other reason the purdy betta fish may change colors is when they go through a sort of betta fish puberty.