westling@cvl.UUCP (Mark Westling) (03/09/85)
Anyone out there familiar with breeding bettas (aka Siamese fighting
fish)? I've bred blue and multicolor strains for a while, but decided
to try reds a few months ago. I spawned a red female from an excellent
strain with a nice pet-store red male. The young are between 0.5 and
1.0 inches long now, and with the exception of their heads and backs
their bodies are light-colored (rather like Cambodian bettas). Does
the extended red characteristic usually appear late? The entire spawn
has this coloring, and though I'm not that familiar with betta
genetics I would expect at least SOME of the fry to have different
phenotypes if hidden/recessive genes were at work.
I also have a pair of blue single-tails that have produced double-tail
offspring. The problem with these double tails is that instead of
a completely split caudal fin they have something more like an
indentation. So now I know that the double-tail gene is not Mendelian
(in oher words, it can appear in various degrees). My question
is, how much can it vary? If I reduce the double-tail characteristics
a bit more, I feel I could end up with a very nice single-tail strain.
Is this idea worth pursuing?
-- Mark Westling
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-- Mark Westling
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