whats your secret for breeding bettas? i have got to the point where they spawn and i have free swimming fish

Question

then everything falls apart from then on. and somtimes they dont even like each other?!

Answer 1

Here's a little info that might help. Betta breeding can take several tries to get it down, both for you and for the fish. If you are getting free swimming fry, then they die off on you, it's one of two things. Not enough food (or the wrong food) or not enough water changes.

Eggs and fry: The eggs will hatch in 2 days. At first the male will collect the babies and return them to the bubble nest, this is normal. Once you see that the babes are able to swim in a normal fashion, remove the male. Now is the time to start feeding the babies. Feed them newly hatched brine shrimp, micro worms or vinegar eels. Feed several times a day for the first week to 10 days. At that time you can start addig some powdered flake food to their diet and begin increasing the water level in the tank.

Care: The babies need very clean water. Do a 50% or more water change every day and be sure to remove any uneaten food or dead babies that you see. Keeping the water clean and changed very often is one of the major keys to sucess. Be sure you cull the brood. Culling is to remove unwanted fish. Remove any deformed fish right away and destroy them.

Rearing and selection: Eventually you will need to split the batch as they will over crowd the 10 gallon. Removing the females to another tank is the best way. The males can stay together without a problem. Continue to feed quality foods of increasing size working your way up to frozen or adult brine shrimp and continue to do large daily water changes. Once they begin to develop color, you should cull based on color. Keep the color you like and remove the rest. Even if you started with two reds you will get a few that are not red or are not evenly colored. If they are near adult size a shop should buy them from you or at least give you some store credit. Be ruthless, keep only the very best to breed with next time around.

Contrary to popular myth, the males from a spawn can stay together basically for their entire lives as long as you never seperate them. Once seperated even for a day they will begin to fight so keep that in mind.

I have bred bettas for years and for over 25 fish generations, if I can help more just drop me a line.

Best of luck and stick with it, you'll have baby betta before you know it!

Answer 2

What do you mean by every thing falls apart? You can keep them together for the first 3 months but then the males have to be separated cause they will kill each other. I had good luck with breeding bettas

Answer 3

It's guaranteed that they won't like each other. They are bettas. They fight. Look online and get those cups you see them in at petstores. Or breeder cubes.
And the key to keeping them alive is cleanliness.
You have to change 50% of thier water EVERY DAY!!!
Look here.
www.bettysplendens.com
It has lots of breeding info.

Answer 4

you need a two way breeding tank.you don't have to change the water every so often,use an under gravel filter,so the bubble nest doesn't get hurt.there are allot of good books at your local pet shops

Answer 5

Each male, I am sorry to say, needs its own container. That is why they are called Siamese fighting fish. The females can be kept in the same tank.

That is a horribly difficult fish to raise in any quantities.

-Dio

Answer 6

put them in the same tank and make shure that its in a two way breeder