Bettas can come in a wide range of colors.  From a show perspective, a solid color betta should be "clean"and not have any other color visible.

        

• Red - can vary from bright red to deep almost purple.  Red bettas often have pineappling (black or blue edges to scales).

      

• Yellow -color varies from lemon to an almost orange banana color.  Often have pineappling (black or blue edges to scales).

     

• Orange - color varies from closer to red to closer to yellow. Often have pineappling (black or blue edges to scales).

     

• Steel Blue - a very dusky blue. Often bred into black melano lines to create fertile females.

     

• Royal Blue - a bright deep blue color.

     

• Green - varies from common light green to rare forest green.

     

• Turquoise - there is much debate as to whether turquoise is just green or blue.  Tends to be between green and blue shades.  Rare to have fish that display solid green and solid blue on body.

• White - also called platinum.  These bettas are hauntingly beautiful.

     

• Pastel - These fish are what can be described as halfway between cellophane and white. 

• Cellophane - these are essentially colorless bettas.  Bettas may have cellophane fins or body which just means that area lacks color.

• Black - there are two kinds of black, melano and black lace.  Melano bettas are truly black and their females infertile.  Black lace bettas are just dark fish with little iridescence.  These fish are normally bred to have steel blue iridescence so they appear to be completely black.

• Purple - There are very few true purple bettas.  It is one of the newest colors and is still being developed.

     

• Copper - a metallic coloring that shifts in different lights. These fish may seem brown or steel colored in low light.  Often greens, golds  and purples are the shifting colors of a copper.

If a betta has more than one color present on it, it will present in a specific pattern.

     

• Light Bicolor (Cambodian) - these fish have a light body and their fins are a different color from the body.  The most common version has a light body and red fins although they may also be any of the other colors.

• Dark Bicolor - these fish have a dark body and fins that are a different color from the body.  A good bicolor will not have the body color bleeding onto the fins.

     

• Butterfly - the edges of the fins are a different color than the inside.  If the betta is a melano carrier the edges will be black, otherwise they will be white or cellophane.

     

• Marble - a very popular betta coloring where colors are splattered onto the fish.  These fish tend to change color often.

• Piebald - have a flesh colored face while the rest of the body has color. 

     

• Multicolor -These are bettas that have three or more colors that do not match one of the other patterns.

• Dragon -These bettas have very thick body scales.  These thick scales can either be a solid color such as white or yellow, or they may be iridescent.