Question?

[eudielynn]

What is the difference in Marble and Multi? I am about 95% sure Hunter is a Multi, but I just wondered what the "offical" definition was.

 

[eudielynn]

* bumb * Helllllloooooo!!! Anybody out there?

 

[Kiarra]

http/i4.photobucket.com/albums/y113/Kiar.../Alessandro.bmp
This boy of mine is a marble. Notice the splotches of color on his fins, especially.

http/i4.photobucket.com/albums/y113/Kiar...Fay/Matteo4.bmp
This other boy of mine is a multi.

Does that help? I have a much better example of a marble in my possession---he's a black and white splotched little boy---but I don't have a picture of him. I wish I did!

(Sorry they aren't image-tagged properly. I don't have time to switch them from a bitmap to a .gif)

 

[eudielynn]

Thanks so much Kiarra!! I was wrong. Hunter is a marble. I just knew he was several different colors so I thought he must be a multi. See there, I've learned something new again today.

 

[Synirr]

I think most true marbles have a redloss gene, so I'm not sure the example you gave counts Kiarra... He looks like more of a butterfly pattern with redwash to me, but I could be wrong

Here's a nice example of a marble plakat from Aquabid, and here's a marble that either doesn't have the redloss gene or is just young and hasn't lost all his red yet.

Basically, marbles have their colours in patches with no real pattern and no defined borders between the body and fins

 

[Kiarra]

He keeps changing color on me. I think he is a marble. He looks more like one in person...too much of his fins have been obscured in that photo. I just don't really have a better one.

 

[BettaMomma]

Hmm.
Charlie looks just like that first photo of yours Kiarra - especially now! He's got red streaks at the end of his fins because of some sort of infection or something - he never used to have them.

hmm

 

[wuvmybetta]

What is the difference in Marble and Multi? I am about 95% sure Hunter is a Multi, but I just wondered what the "offical" definition was.

An actual marble should have marbling on all of it's fins to be considered a "marble" and a multi should have three or more colors with each additional color in areas that are at least the size of it's eye , no smaller.