Betta Fish Color Chart
On the left is a purple plakat betta fish.
Betta fish color chart. Although rare common betta fish colors for a solid betta include yellow blue red white turquoise and green. Do your 50 water changes quite frequent like maybe once every 2 3 days. This variety has a solid colored body and different colored fins.
Marble betta fish have irregular blotchy or splash like patterning all over the body. Dark head with royal blue body. The ibc has written official exhibition standards that establish what the ideal for bettas should be in both colors.
Good coppers are truly beautiful. Red with a layer of light iridescent blue green. Another of the three iridescent colors.
The most common bi colored bettas are the chocolate bettas. There will be variations of purple turquoise blue and a pinkish purple. So breeding a copper to a copper will give all coppers.
Dark head with cornflower blue body. Yellow layer bottom layer. Very cool color chart made by ausaqua.
Some have translucent fins others have fins showing marbling. They have a dark body and fins that can be yellow or orange. On the left is a green crown tail betta.
Please note that if you do see that your betta fish has these stress stripes its a good indication that your betta is suffering some degree of stress and something in his aquatic environment needs to change. If your tank has gravel on the bottom. Stress stripes appear running horizontally on a betta fish generally from gill to tail and are red black white or a mixed combination.
Get rid of it if possible. On the right is a pink plakat betta. A little difficult to read but you can blow it up using the magnification tool in your internet browser you can probably find it in the top bar under view.
Darker with a purple tint when young. On the left is a young pink betta. Well theyre all the best in their breeder and owners eyes.
Here are two veiltail betta males in true solid blue colour. The color layers of betta fish. Iridescent layer top layer 2.
Generally the base color of the fish is pale and the patterns are in a bold solid color such as red or blue. On the right is a purple veiltail betta. One of the three iridescent colors.
There are up to 26000 genetic combinations that create the myriad colors and patterns that you find in captive betta fish. The salt helps with digestion issues since these are the most common issue with betta fish. There are essentially four layers of color cells in the bettas skin.
These fish are genetically steel blue fish with a metallic color over the top. But we have to give the awards to only a few. Standards judging manual how do we ever decide which fish are the best.
Red wash in the fins will be penalized. Betta color map by australian fish hobbyists. Evenness of coloring in the body and fins is preferred.