Betta Cross Breeding Results:

Betta is a little fish that exhibits stunning colours. Aquarists keep Betta fish alone in bowls or aquariums because of their aggressive nature. Betta fish fight with their own kind & this is the reason why it is called Siamese fighting fish. In Thailand, people call Betta fish “Pla Kat” that means fighting fish because they fight with each other. Male Bettas are usually higher aggressive than females. Peaceful Betta fish are also available but they are not as popular as Fighting Betta fish. If you want to know the difference between Peaceful VS Aggressive Betta fish, then click on the link below:

How to Differentiate between Fighting VS Peaceful Betta fish?

 

How Male Betta differ from Female Betta fish?

Male Betta fish seem more stunning than female Betta fish. They have larger fins and richer colours. The Colors of Female Betta fish are cheap, and they are smaller than Male Bettas.

Betta Cross Breeding Results

Is it possible to Selective Breed Betta fish to yield babies having different colours, fins & tail types?

Many aquarium owners have interbred different Bettas. It is possible to interbreed Betta Splendens with Splendens, or cross breed them with Imbellis or Mahachai. Cross breeding of Splendens with Smaragdine will have lower survival chances of fries. Fish owners have also bred Betta Splendens with other fish. Spawning of Betta Splendens with Macropodus will give birth to Paradise fish fries.

Interbreeding of Betta fish will produce fresh colours, fins & tail types. Different types of fins & scales are produced via selective spawning of Bettas.

Betta fish can interbreed with any species of Betta fish. Halfmoon Betta fish can interbreed with Crown tails, Veil tails, delta or other types of Betta fish. However, interbreeding of wrong Betta fish can result in undesirable shapes of fins. One more problem is that Bettas are often born via selective spawning with their own types, so interbreeding of different types of Bettas might cause health issues or defects in fries.

In this post, I have provided the Results of Cross breeding Betta fish. Betta fish offspring vary based on which types of Betta fish you are cross breeding.

It is recommended to have Betta fish parents at least 5 generations pure to get the following Betta Cross breeding results. There are 85 to 95 % chances of getting below Betta Cross Breeding results:

Betta Cross Breeding Results

Long fin / tail genes are stronger than short fin / tail genes

When Long fin (HM, CT, VT) interbreed with short fin, then Long fin babies are born.

• When Short fin: Halfmoon Plakat (HMPK) interbreed with Long fin: Halfmoon (HM), Super Delta / Halfmoon babies are born.
• When Short fin: Halfmoon Plakat (HMPK) interbreed with Long fin: Crowntail (CT), Halfsun babies are born.
• When Long fin: Halfmoon (HM) interbreed with Long fin: Crowntail (CT), Halfsun babies are born.

 

• When Veiltail (VT) interbreed with Halfmoon Plakat (HMPK), Delta tail babies are born.
• When Veiltail (VT) interbreed with Halfmoon (HM), Super Delta tail babies are born.
• When Veiltail (VT) interbreed with Crowntail (CT), then their babies are mostly Veiltail with web reduction in their fins. When Veiltail (VT) interbreed with Crowntail (CT), then their fins will look messy.

 

• When Crowntail Plakat (CTPK) interbreed with Halfmoon (HM), Halfsun babies are born.
• When Crowntail Plakat (CTPK) interbreed with Veiltail (VT), Halfsun babies are born.
• When Crowntail Plakat (CTPK) interbreed with Crowntail (CT), Crowntail (CT) babies are born.

 

Single tail genes are stronger than double tail genes

When Double tail (HM, PK, VT) interbreed with Single tail (HM, PK, VT), Single tail babies are born.

• When Double tail Plakat (DTPK) interbreed with HalfMoon Plakat (HMPK), Round tail (HMPK) babies are born.
• When Double tail Plakat (DTPK) interbreed with Double tail Halfmoon (DTHM), Double tail Halfmoon (DTHM) babies are born.
• When Double tail Plakat (DTPK) interbreed with Halfmoon (HM), Delta tail babies are born.
• When Double tail Plakat (DTPK) interbreed with Crown tail (CT), Halfsun babies are born.
• When Double tail Plakat (DTPK) interbreed with Veil tail (VT), Delta tail babies are born.

 

• When Double tail Halfmoon (DTHM) interbreed with Halfmoon Plakat (HMPK), Delta tail babies are born.
• When Double tail Halfmoon (DTHM) interbreed with Crowntail (CT), Halfsun babies are born.
• When Double tail Halfmoon (DTHM) interbreed with Halfmoon (HM), Super Delta / Halfmoon babies are born.
• When Double tail Halfmoon (DTHM) interbreed with Veiltail (VT), Delta tail fries are born.

 

Normal Pectoral genes are stronger than large Pectoral genes

When Large Pectoral (Dumbo) interbreed with Small Pectoral (Regular), Small Pectoral (Regular) babies are born.

• When Dumbo (HMPK) interbreed with Halfmoon Plakat (HMPK), Regular Halfmoon Plakat (HMPK) babies are born.
• When Dumbo Halfmoon interbreed with Halfmoon (HM), Regular Halfmoon babies are born.
• When Dumbo Double tail Plakat (DTPK) interbreed with Double tail Plakat (DTPK), Regular Double tail Plakat (DTPK) fries are born.