Hi I have two Betta fish. I have a yellow male and a blue female i am trying to breed them but i dont now how?

Answer 1

1) Learn to distinguish between mature male and female Bettas. Click here to see several Male Bettas, then click here to see several Female Bettas. Note that the males have much longer fins than the females.

(2) Male and female Bettas should not be kept together except for an hour or two in a fish bowl or small aquarium, while they spawn.

(3) Keep each male in its own fish bowl. Click here to read more about fish bowls. Click here to buy a Fish Bowl Kit. Sometimes more than one Male Betta can live together in a large aquarium. But most experienced Betta Fish breeders keep each male in its own bowl.

(4) Female Bettas can be kept together in one aquarium as shown at the top of this page in a picture of a six-gallon aquarium, where twelve Female Bettas live together. Some experienced Betta breeds keep a few mild tempered males together in large aquariums with or without females. But some males are too aggressive and cannot be kept with other Bettas, except for a short time for breeding with a female.

(5) Most of the time we feed floating pellet food labeled for Betta Fish and freeze dried blood worms, which are mosquito larvae, to our male and female Bettas. Click here for more about these foods and feeding fish.

When we're ready to spawn our female Bettas, we feed them the following foods each morning and each evening in the order listed: BettaMin, Freeze Dried Blood Worms, some live or frozen brine shrimp, then a few live Black Worms. Click here to read more about Black Worms.

With good care and plenty of food the female Bettas will swell with eggs, and the good food will also encourage the Male Betta to build a big bubble nest. Sometimes I have been able to see pinkish eggs through the skin over the abdomen of plump females.

(6) Change 20% of the water each day in the bowls with the males and in the bowls or aquariums with females. This should stimulate the males to build bubble nests on the surface of the water along the edges of their bowls. You can see a bubble nest above the spawning Bettas in the photo just above. Click here for more information about how to change water in your fish bowl.

(7) Put your plumpest female in with the male that has built the biggest bubble. They will usually quarrel for a while. The male may rip the female's fins, she may nip him back, then he'll embrace her, and they'll spawn as shown in the picture above. You can see in the picture above that the male has ripped the females fins. You'll need to watch carefully to be sure that he doesn't hurt her too badly.

If they don't spawn, you should remove the female and put her back in the aquarium or fish bowl that she came from, or the male will probably hurt her. If they do spawn, you should still remove the female.


(8) The male Betta, not the female, will care for the eggs in the bubble nest. You will see him taking the eggs into his mouth where he cleans them with special natural chemicals in his mouth. Two days after spawning the chemicals in his mouth change and dissolve the outer layer of the eggs to release the fry.

(9) Now comes the difficult part. We were never able to raise the Betta fry in an aquarium or a bowl. Instead we put them in a pond. This only works when the water temperature is 68 degrees F. or warmer. The pond was often 70 degrees F. and warmer during the summer.

The pond was outdoors, contained no fish that might eat the tiny baby Bettas, and held about 500 gallons of water. I often looked at a drop of the pond water with a microscope, and the pond water was always full of lots of tiny living things, called infusoria. The baby Bettas eat what they like best from the assortment available in the pond water. Click here for more about ponds.



Betta fry grow very fast in a pond like this. In 10 days or two weeks they began to take a little bit of powdered food. Click here to read about how to make powdered food for baby fish.

Answer 2

I am a novice at breeding Betta's also...I just spawned my first Betta's (veil tails)...I also lost the whole brood in less than 48 hrs (found them all dead this morning)...here is what I have learned so far..5 gal tank..water 2/3 full (mine was 100% full)..Styrofoam cup cut in 1/2 (from top to bottom) long way..place cup in tank with "top" facing glass so the eggs don't float away (I had mine the other way and they were all over the tank..turned it around and he gathered up all the eggs under the cup)..these are the web pages I visit daily to see if I missed anything:

http://www.aqualandpetsplus.com
http://www.bettatalk.com (has a video of spawning Betta's)
http://betta-barracks.ourfamily.com/ilene.htm

Answer 3

good luck Betta fish are fighting fish , the male will attack the female, you need to ask a person that specializes in fish (Betta).

Answer 4

it about 2 more weeks.DO NOT rush them...i dont know how this is possible but it took a year to get them to breed and they only had 1 fish

Answer 5

http://www.baker.ws/breeding/breeding.html
http://members.tripod.com/Be_A_Man/betta/breeding.html
Hopefully that will help. Good luck.

Answer 6

Just put the together..instinct should take over!

Answer 7

just put them together and hope they dont kill each other cause im doin the same with my birds