Betta Splendens

[unwritten law]

Originally Posted by Moshi-Cat

If you try to breed bettas of different types together don't you usually end up with wild type bettas?

That doesn't make much sense but I don't know. I would think that the wild type is breed out of them so you would just get a mixture of the two, one being more dominant.

[Moshi-Cat]

Well, I betta's color isn't one set of genes, It's different ones. If the pretty color we want is resessive then and the two color genes of our fish are in different places then we could say the two fish are

rr, WW and
WW, bb and if you breed them together you get

Wr, Wb which looks like a wild type Betta.

But if the color is by degree then a fish bred for strong red pigment bred to a fish with no red pigment would get a fish with weak/medium red pigment.

But I don't really know about betta color genetics...

[bassbonediva]

Just remember when breeding bettas that if you come across a black female, don't try to breed her. Black females are sterile. I learned this one the hard way. LOL!