hi i was wondering if anyone has brought this up or have any problems seeing the lines on light skinned female bettas like white, yellow, etc...i know that a tummy full of eggs is pretty certain but i usually wait to see those vertical lines...can anyone shine some light on this? first time using a cambo female...thinks she's plakat or vt not sure

i have never seen the lines in my yellows or platinums like i do on the darker girls

Nope. I can't see any lines on my light-bodied girls. Neither breeding or stress stripes. Only the ones that have darker colored bodies. My yellow, cello, and cambo girls don't show stripes that I can see.

Heck, I have every color under the sun in the girlies and only one stripes... a dark blue one named appropriately Stripes.... she almost always has her stripes on.
She is the underling in the sorrority. But she seems happy and healthy, so whatever.

Light bodied females likely do stripe up, but we are unable to see it.
That is why when breeding them, you have to use other signals that the light body female is ready to breed.
The full eggy belly, prominant ovipositor, and classic bottoms up position are excellent indicators.
I have noticed also, that males have trouble sometimes with these light body females as well.
On one podcast, a breeder painted stripes on an opaque female, because the male would not breed her...
I have wondered since then what he used, because I certainly would try it myself sometimes, because after painting her, he was able to get her bred, lol.

wow painting? that is unusual i hope i dont have to do that...i've never bred a light body colored female before the ones i tried were all dark body...hopefully " crosses fingers " i wouldnt have to do anything irrational ...thanks alot guys u guys did shine light on this odd occasion

It certainly IS unusual, and i wonder at the truth of it, because, well, no marler of any kind worked.. I know I tried three kinds..
Lipstick didn't work.. Foood cooloring didn't work...
I am sure water paint, or posterpaint would not have worked...

As I said, you will know from the other clues..
forget the stripes..
OF you can put her in a low laying container, edges level with the outside water level.
Most females will jump out when they are ready.

That's almost as cruel as the tattoos they are putting on cichlids now. But yes I have heard of a breeder or two that have done this to make a female more desireable to a male. These were EXPERIENCED BREEDERS, it should be noted, and should not be tried as a common technique. I think that's why the persons using it, did not reveal the method they used, so the general public would not attempt it.

I think it is more along the lines of the dying, the the tatooing, without stripping the slime coat, and those that have done that only did it as a last resort, not out of wanton greed.
And most of the things I speak of are things that experienced breeders have tried, I just don't feel the need to say that every time I post something.. Just take that for granted if you have never heard of it being done.
If it is something that I have done, and it has worked, I will say so, but I don't recommend you do what I do.. I have said this before as well, and I get tired of saying it.
Suffice it to say, I am the Mad Doctor of Bettas..
That means I get results from unorthidox methods that usually kill someone elses fish when they try it, even though my fish come through unscathed.
THAT is why I repeated to watch the females body language.
Learning what your fish are saying with their bodies in key to becoming a good breeder.