Breeding Betta's albinos?

Question

What are the chances of breeding 2 pink Bettas with red eyes and winding up with an albino babby? and what is one worth?

Answer 1

it's a good chance... they'll come out albino.
it is kinda rare but not worth much i don't think... The value of a betta comes from it's form, body, fins and color.

Answer 2

Your chances are 100%. All your babies will be albinos if you breed two together, because neither have the "normal" gene, they ONLY have albino genes.

Albino is a recessive trait. This means that a normal-looking (let's call normal, blue) blue fish could have the albino gene. Usually, that is written like this: Aa. The dominant gene is a capital letter, and recessive gene is a lowercase and it goes behind the capital, because the animal looks blue/normal. A fish that is normal and does not carry the albino gene would be written like this: AA. An albino animal has both the recessive albino genes required to make it LOOK albino, is written: aa.
Remember punnet square? It's an easy way to figure out what you're going to end up with.
If you cross two albinos, aa x aa, it'll look like this:

.....a....a a aa aa
a aa aa
^
p
a
r
e
n
t


So you have a 4/4 (so 1 in 1) chance of having albino (aa) babies.
If you had one with the recessive albino that looked normal, and one albino, it would look like this:

.....a....a
A Aa Aa
a aa aa

Make sense? lol :)

As for the value, I do not know, sorry. How much did you buy the adults for? They'd probably be worth a bit more than normal bettas.


*note- if you're looking for selling expensive babies, I suggest you cross your each of your albinos with a VT or HM, and then breed the babies together. Bettas are sold on tail and finnage, not necessarily colour, so albino half-moons or veiltails would be worth more than plain albinos.



Edit: in response to angelmwilson:
The chances are not "good", they are 100%. It is impossible for two albino parents to produce anything but albino babies.
Also, the albino fish you posted as being for sale is a guppy, not a betta.
Also, albinos are not necessarily pure white / not coloured. Albinos simply lack BLACK pigmentation (melanine) - they can be white, pink, yellow, blue, puprlish, but they will not be pure white. An animal that lacks ALL colour pigment and is pure white, is called Leucistic.
Please be careful about spreading misinformation.

Answer 3

Chances sound good but I'm trying to find the exact way to get what your looking for.

From what I have found so far the albinos would be worth a good amount.

Here is one link that may be helpful
http://watershed3.tripod.com/types.html

Here is an albino for sale....
http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwguppies&1166316654

Sorry I cant be of more help. Try breeding them and see what you get. A true albino will have NO color. So if the bays have pink they are not true albinio!