what are good combinations for male and female fighting fish to get the best colours when babies are born?

Question

im keen on breeding fighting fish but dont necesarily want to get the same reds blues or purples as an outcome. i want to have an out there range of colours, ive seen yellows and even heard of emerald green ones. how hard would it be to get some and if possible in the sydney area.
would it be a good idea to one,keep the males seperate (obviously) but with the females if they arent the same colour should i keep them in seperate tanks??
lastly i have recently purchased a white almost ghost like male. when i breed it with females will his genes make his offspring pale or even kind of bleech out others???
thanks for your time and i hope to get some good answers soon

Answer 1

betta genetics is a super complicated one!
colours won't "blend" together like that.

is your white one opaque or cellophane?

if you want to breed for colour, get matching pairs, sibling pairs even, don't mix and match or you'll get an unappealing mixed bag of offspring. get a sibling pair from another breeder, not a pet store where they're probably too old to breed already.

the second link down is a whole section of a forum dedicated to betta genetics, they know more than i do.

Answer 2

Here is a place that sells green/gold bettas. They're gorgeous, but pricey! They ship, so locale wouldn't be a factor. Colors come from dominant genes, not from mixing colors like with paint. If the colors are equally dominant, the offspring of the white could come out lighter or spotted. If you mix a blue and a red, you could get purple or you could get blue or red or a mix. When you mix colors, it's impossible to determine what you're going to come out with.

Answer 3

the females are fine together. the last couple of fish i've seen when the male was ghostlike and the female was red, they've come out like a periwinkle blend of purple red blue and green, they are amazing...