Truly Orange Bettas

[LauraFrog]

I was in my LFS the other day and they had some bright orange veiltail males... really, really bright orange. Like the fruit. Like ripe apricots. Like whatever. Two of them, one a solid, the other butterfly to cellophane fins. Both had very even colour over the body and fins, by far the most vibrant shade of orange I have ever seen on a betta.
Has this appeared in any other strains beside veil? It was seriously eye-catching, and would make for a really stunning picture on, say, a halfmoon. I didn't buy the fish in question, because I don't have enough room to expand my collection of curiosities at the moment, I have too many serious breeding fish there. It's getting especially critical because I have a new boy coming in from Thailand in a few weeks, with any luck. But is there such a colour in CT/HM/PK? I'm going through my collection of saved Aquabid photos (I have about 1000. No, seriously.) trying to find one.

 

[Rediahs]

That sort of thing makes me suspect the fish are being dyed...

It does happen... even though bettas are already so beautiful and have a wide variety of colours, some people find it necessary to make them unnaturally bright...

If you think it's natural, hey, that's awesome!

 

[x0x.love.you.x0x]

i have seen orange bettas on aquabid but i dont know how orange copared to the ones you saw

 

[x0x.love.you.x0x]

there is e few orange betta on aquabid, any that resemble the colouring of the ones you saw?

 

[Rediahs]

I found a nice orange on aquabid, is it like this? Or brighter?

If it's brighter than this I don't see how it'd be natural.... well, maybe, but it seems like a long shot.

Sorry for huge image... they just did it like that for some reason

 

[liz2]

I had a dark yellowy colour almost orange, but I have never seen a pure orange.

 

[LauraFrog]

Looked like the colour in the fins of the attached photo, all over. Believe me, they are definitely natural... I know how to recognise a dyed fish. One of them was butterfly to cellophane fin! If it was dyed, that would be really obvious.

 

[wilsonnw8]

Well modaz told me orange is the new black, perhaps more breeders are producing them, I guess its filtering into the LFS's

 

[electric yellow]

LauraFrog: Pets Paradise down her ein Vic has had an influx in orange ones. I have seen VTs and HMs. No CTs yet though. Im dieing (pardon the un) for an orange betta and a white betta to finish my collection. But im waiting till i get my big tank set up The oranges ive seen were very bright.

 

[loraxchick]

the orange boys are in around here too (upstate ny)...a few months ago i brought home a steel blue boy with bright orange fins...he's purdy

 

[Alasse]

I have an orange veiltail...Valencia. He is not dyed

 

[rrrr]

how are people able to dye bettas? and how do you notice if they are dyed? sorry to highjack your topic!

 

[modaz]

Well modaz told me orange is the new black, perhaps more breeders are producing them, I guess its filtering into the LFS's

yes its the new black. A great colour at the moment but extremely hard to find them in the lighter tones as the red dominate the strain. There is burnt/dark orange which is nice if found as a solid colour and great for spawning as increases the lighter tone % in fry. I've got a shipment due in and they tend to have the odd orange one thrown in. Will have to see what comes with this lot. The hardest to obtain is an orange butterfly though as due to the red loss gene it has to be 100% red loss in the DNA that controls the colour of the fins. I've manage to produce a dark orange female celophane butterfly but I'm on the look out for the perfect male for her but like I said who knows what this week coming will bring.

how are people able to dye bettas? and how do you notice if they are dyed? sorry to highjack your topic!

when they get wet the colour runs

 

[JasonU]

I think the poster who said that more breeders are producing them is right.

One of the shops in Edinburgh had a couple in about two months ago, I also saw one in a shop in Stirling about 3 weeks ago. The one in Stirling was incredible, its head was pure white.

 

[Amunet]

Our local Petsmart used to have half their bettas an orange or that really pretty pink color. Seen some very stunning pure orange bettas,