How can I breed a two headed betta fish?
5 March 2010
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I want to breed a two headed betta fish? Any suggestion on how to do this? Also I would like to breed a 8 inch betta fish?
Actually some chineesee have already come up with a seven inch betta, the idea came from them, and the idea of the two headed betta came from the two headed turtle. How much radiation do I have to expose the embryos in order to get a mutation? Or what are the odds of getting a natural mutation?
The odds of a natural mutation are slim to negligeble for a two headed mutation. There is no magical equation that guarantees that exposure to a certain radiation / chemical will produce a specific mutation.
To breed large bettas will require starting with bettas having the large gene mutation. This is an interesting read:
http://www.bettas-jimsonnier.com/genetics7.htm
May I ask what a two headed betta fish is?
It’s not something you can do through selective breeding. It’s a mutation, you just have to hope.
Im wondering what a two headed beta is myself! Here is a link that may help you!
For an animal to have two heads it has to be a conjoined twin which is just two different fish; however, in the womb they become conjoined so they share a few body parts but still have two heads. There is no way you can control that- it is just a rare mutation. Have you seen the conjoined turtles?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_on_fe_st/two_headed_turtle
have someone from Chernobyl send you some of their water
Stick this fish in there
it would be a fluke to get a two headed betta. as someone else said, it would have to be a conjoined twin and be very rare. the survival rate to adulthood would be tiny. if you did manage to get a a fry with two heads it would probably have trouble feeding and get picked on by it’s siblings.
As others have said, this is not something that can be done via regular breeding practices. Two heads are a result of a genetic mutation, in this case, usually brought on by serious contamination from radiation or other similar source. And as others have said, most wild animals born with two heads die soon after birth. But, I just have to say this, this is a painful way to live and die. To want to do something like this to a living animal is cruel. Please rethink your creative aspirations. With regard to breeding a larger sized betta, you would simply need to choose the largest two bettas out of a large selection of bettas and breed those two, hoping that one of their offspring is larger. Then, when this betta is ready to breed, you pair it with another non-related large betta, breed them and hope, again, that you get a larger betta. Producing different sub-species of animals like this takes many, many generations of careful, selective and highly knowledgeable breeding techniques. I should think, however, that if it were possible to breed a larger betta, a very experienced breeder would have thought of it by now. So, again, I would suggest you find another creative aspiration.
two head mutaints hardly make it and while i cant say that it isnt unheard of, as i did see a video of two asain arowanas alive and in one body, but bettas are very fragile compared to a fish like this, and most likely would die.
now, yes bettas can be up to 8 inches, but this is very easily achieved as gaint bettas have been around for the last 6-8 years already. theirs a whole history behind this with old fashion libby bettas. etc.. anyway, so larger bettas are very easily bred, but you must buy a pair,breeding half genetics is not really good as it will hard to breed them back to true gaints.
But dont use radition, mutations hardly occur and when they do it isnt really good for the animal, and if it happens it does, but never should it be forced apon.
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