Foo Hong
18th May 2002, 01:23 AM
Ah ha! most common colours some may say. But lets be honest. How often do we see a nicely coloured fish.
Irids normally refer to the colours of royal blue, steel blue and turquoise. Forget your primary and secondary colours of light and crayon, steel x turq = royal...Ok?
royal blue is probably most desirable from a breeders point of view in that a royal x royal spawn produces all 3 colours. However, some breeders prefer to breed steel and turquoise using pure pairs rather than deriving from royals, argument being the colours are superior. From my own observations, I do not fully agree with this view entirely although I always feel that pure colour breeding in most cases will give you better colours. The exception however, seem to be in Turquoise. Most turquoise are more to a blue-green tone, while the more desirable colour is a green colour. To get a greener betta, turq x turq makes a lot of sense as a royal x royal or a royal x turq attempt to get turquoise bettas would in a way be introducing blue into a turq line.
Enuf of colour? Not yet.....the big question = how about redwash? Often we hear...."Alamak, I got a nice 180 HM but he got 2 red neck-ties....so how!" [ to be continued.... watching ESPN soccer update now!]:(
Irids normally refer to the colours of royal blue, steel blue and turquoise. Forget your primary and secondary colours of light and crayon, steel x turq = royal...Ok?
royal blue is probably most desirable from a breeders point of view in that a royal x royal spawn produces all 3 colours. However, some breeders prefer to breed steel and turquoise using pure pairs rather than deriving from royals, argument being the colours are superior. From my own observations, I do not fully agree with this view entirely although I always feel that pure colour breeding in most cases will give you better colours. The exception however, seem to be in Turquoise. Most turquoise are more to a blue-green tone, while the more desirable colour is a green colour. To get a greener betta, turq x turq makes a lot of sense as a royal x royal or a royal x turq attempt to get turquoise bettas would in a way be introducing blue into a turq line.
Enuf of colour? Not yet.....the big question = how about redwash? Often we hear...."Alamak, I got a nice 180 HM but he got 2 red neck-ties....so how!" [ to be continued.... watching ESPN soccer update now!]:(