Selective Breeding Betta Fish Breeding Color Chart
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Selective breeding betta fish breeding color chart. Through years of careful and selective breeding by experts there are now hundreds of types of betta fish on the market today. There is no commentary in this video rather it is to give people a chance to evaluate several different fish and exercise their analysis skills. Betta color map by australian fish hobbyists.
With selective breeding hobbyists try to fix certain traits in their lines. Using the concept of selective breeding to breed quality angelfish is the focus of this article and for many breeders worldwide developing a quality breeding stock also takes time and space but once. Now after years of selective breeding there are 5 basic fin types.
If you breed that male with a female that has only stst then about half the offspring. This helps prevent injury to one of the fish. The brightly colored betta fish have been produced via selective breeding and the original betta fish features a dull grayish to green color with short fins.
Outcrossing these species to betta splendens and selective breeding resulted in true breeding hybrid plakat bettas which were called copper imbellis. With respect to color a good solution to keep diversity in your fish room with only a limited amount of fish is to work on color varieties which can be easily combined. These fish possessed two new features.
Make no doubt it is harder to get good form and finnage than to get good color. The selective breeding done by the ibc and other breeders finally made the hm more common and gave it a name in the 90 s. Not many people were breeding for anything other than long fins back then.
Selective breeding is very different from just breeding angel fish. Be aware that a fish that is too small may be too young to breed. Some examples are for instance red orange and yellows or the iridescent colors turquoise.