Betta Fish Marble Gene

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.

Betta fish marble gene.

The black lace betta is a dark colored fish that rarely approaches the depth and intensity of the melano black 18. There are no articles that prove or disprove this so let s talk about pigmentation and coloration in betta fish. Marble is used to describe a type of betta fish by its physical blotchy appearance but more importantly by the special genes they have called jumping genes or transposons as they are now called. Patterns that appear on bettas are the result of gene s that modify the way pigment appears on the fish.

If the solid colored parent betta carries the marble gene the percentage of marbled fry increases. But they all carry the gene. These patterns are not usually defined by colors and multiple patterns can appear on a fish making for a large range of possibilities. Displays of neurological condition.

A result of the. Marble is a name for a transposon jumping gene. Click subscribed to get a new video. Well she sent in some photos of her betta fish and it became immediately obvious that she has a marble betta.

It is a partially recessive genetic so if you have a betta with the marbling gene and you breed it to a betta with no marbling genetics you might get a few marbled fry. Most black lace fish display too much iridescence in body and fins to be competitive in the black class and are instead shown into the dark bicolor class. In fact marbling is pretty common. 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.

Most black lace fish we see today come out of marble strains. 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.