My New Boys! Please Do You Guys Know What Colours They Are Technic

I will add as 3 posts because the pictures are big but Id like to know what colours you think they all are! I ordered them in especially I really wanted some unusual HM's I hope you like them

Tilly

I think this dude is a mustard gas his body is metalic blue pic doesnt do justice as he is nervous

Sam... (the only named one so far as I think he is samuri colours!) no idea what he is




And un named again and again no idea!

Excellent photos, very handsome.

Last picture obviously not so good bit blurry.

Oh they are stunning, lovely Mustard Gas

more flare but the blue isnt showing as well and less blurry! I hope to breed from them when they're older but have to research the right coloured females first!

Anyone have ideas on the names of their colours and what colour females would you breed them with?

In my opinion, the first is a mustard gas, the second looks like it should be a dragon, but I'm not sure how strict the qualifications are for the fin color, and the third... my best guess is a multi. It looks like it has red and black and iridescent blue. I can't tell what its body color is under the iridescence.

what little stunners!

the first is bicolour/mustard gas, the second is a copper mask and the third is a multi butterfly. that's what i'd call them anyway.

I thought that for it to be a butterfly, it had to have a white or clear border on the fins.

The border can be any colour with white or clear being usually just butterfly, and with bicolour banded fins being 'self butterfly' or sometimes just butterfly. White or clear is preferred in most intentional butterfly lines (where the butterfly marking is being bred in) but it often occurs incidentally while breeding for something else and that's when you're likely to get sbf (mixture of two solid colours in bands on the fins). Where there are three or more bands on the fins it's a multicolour.

The appropriate females to use would depend on what you're trying to breed. There are so many ways you can combine betta pairings. Like, I could have a female from a completely different SD line and want to enhance the fins, so breed her to one of those and then choose the fry that had her colours to breed next. If you want to copy their colours, use the female with the closest colours you can find. For the last male, blue iridescence on red is dominant, so if you bred to a red female you would probably still be seeing the blue scales on the body and the red in the fins. For the second, IMO a copper or a black female would make a stunning match, or maybe a pink or light red. For the first, MG females are not always easy to find (and usually expensive). Failing a true MG look for anything with yellow in it, because the black base colour and blue iridescence are dominant and will probably carry down to at least some of the fry. Look for a female with yellow and you will probably also get yellow markings on some of the fry, and with any luck some will be true MG.

Hope this helps.

wow that is so helpful thank you laura they would be my first lot for breeding I havent tried before but wanted to start with fish that would produce babies that would be in demand so I could avoid home shortages and create really pretty fish. Incidently the boy in the picture that I have called sam (he is below the mustard gas.) was just one I thought was really pretty it was between him and a black HM but I couldnt leave him so passed up the black one. The guy serving me thought I was nuts and didnt see the appeal of sam at all. poor little chap. There is a copper female on ebay I could get for him

http/cgi.ebay.co.uk/SOLID-COPPER-FEMALE-...id=p3286.c0.m14

but seeing as he's only young and has only just started to blow bubbles and she is 7 months perhaps it wouldnt be a good match?