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Dr. Leo Buss Anyone who routinely breeds Betta will eventually
encounter a spawn with vastly more males than females or the
converse. If one listens to breeder's lore, one finds no lack of
explanations: pH too high, pH too low, the age at which fish are
jarred, the phase of the moon, the temperature at dawn today,
the price of beer yesterday, and so on. What is immediately
evident, though, is that sex ratio can vary from nearly 100%
female to nearly 100% male; sex is unquestionably malleable.
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