Betta Colours

Pure Colours
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Colour Royal Blue Colour Steel Blue Colour Green
Description The Royal Blue is one of the three iridescent colours. Sometimes it has a purplish look to it.Best seen under a flashlight. Description The Steel Blue is another of the three iridescent colours. It has a lighter more metallic shade, like a greyish blue. Description Green is is the third of the iridescent colours. It can best be seen using a flashlight as without it and can be mistake for black or royal blue at the same time.
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Colour Black Colour Reds Colour Orange
Description There are two types Black genes in a betta. One is the melano and the other is lace. The melano gene produces infertile females. Description There are two types Reds in bettas. One is the Extended Red and the other Reduced Red. The basic difference is that for extended reds the body is Red where as Reduced Reds usually have a brown or black body. The Extented Red is much prefered to the Reduced Red. Description Orange is a new solid colour, hence an extremely high pricetag. Also, it is still rather rare in the open market at the moment.
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Colour Yellow Colour Opaque/ White Colour Cellophane
Description Yellow is another rare and highly priced coloured fish. Also know as a non-red colour, it carrys one of the three iridescent colours. Description Opaque/ White Bettas are pure white in the younger stages, but as they grow older, various degrees of red wash appears on them. Description Cellophane Bettas have got no pigments of colour. Their fins are clear and the body is flesh coloured.




Bi - Colours
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Colour Cambodian Colour Chocolate Colour Pastels
Description Cambodian is basically a betta with red fins and a lighter shade of red body. Usually looking a little like orange. Description Chocolate bettas has a darker body, usually black with yellow fins. Description Pastels would have a white coloured body. The fins colour would depend on the pastel it is. Like a pastel blue would have blue fins and pastel green would have green fins.




Patterned Bettas
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Colour Butterflies Colour Marble Colour Piebald
Description Butterflies are bettas with fins that have got two colours on each fin. Usually the part nearer to the body is one colour and the outer part has another colour all together. Description Marble bettas have blotches of colour on their body. It is usually a solid colour spotted over its body, like for example white on white marble. Description Piebald bettas would have a coloured body and fins, leaving only the face area white or flesh coloured.




Multis
Colour Multis
Description Multis are basically bettas with various colours on its body and fins. Some people love it while others can not stand it.



Please note that what I have put up is what I have learnt from my own experience as well as reading on the topics from sources from the internet and books. It may not apply to all cases and if there are any obvious errors in it, please feel free to tell me about it.
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