how do you get betta's to repurduce?

Question

iam new to the 55 gallon tank thing i do have a male and female betta together .will they repurduce or do i need to do more to my tank please help thanks i really don't know much about fish

Answer 1

Male and female betta's cannot be housed together long term. The male will eventually kill the female.

Here's a method of breeding them that works well for me.

Breeding tank: A 10 gallon makes a good breeding tank for bettas. Place in on a dark surface and set it up with no gravel or decorations. Use a small sponge filter and a heater. maintain the heat at 78-82, the temerature is not really that critical. Using a hood is a good idea to hold in heat and moisture.

Conditioning: Condition the male in the breeding tank. Condition the female in a seperate tank and be sure they cannot see each other. Feed well on frozen or live foods alternating with flakes or pellets for at least a week. The female should be plump with eggs and the male should be flaring and showing his best color, maybe even building a bubble nest.

Spawning: Drop the water level in the breeding tank to about 5" deep. Place the female in a bowl or other container next to the breeding tank so that the male can see her. As soon as there is a good bubble nest in the breeding tank add the female. Check for eggs in the bubble nest every few hours. You know they are finished when the female is hiding from the male and he no longer leaves the nest to chase her down. He will also not be trying to attract her to the nest. At this time remove the female from the breeding tank. If they fail to breed within a few hours go back and repeat the conditioning steps for a week.

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.

The males 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.

MM

Answer 2

This site is fabulous for learning how to spawn Betta. Are they they only fish in the tank? If they are it might, might, be OK to keep them together, provided that they each have their own territory and places to hide. You will have to keep an eye on them. As for breeding it if they don't breed in that tank then you may have to temporarily put them in a smaller (5 gallon) tank to get them together. Then take the female out as soon as they spawn. The website really is a good one, check it out.

Answer 3

well bettas are fighting fish. let the male be in the tank then introduce the female to him. You could look online for betta breeding. they will tell you how to do that stuff. but once they give birth then you gotta take both fishes out or they will eat the babies. but go online and find betta breeding and they will tell you what to do after the babies are there.

Answer 4

if you want to breed betta, you need a smaller tank. a 5 gallons or a 2 1/2 gallons is ideal because with the fry(baby) starts swimming, it is harder for the fater fish to gather and bring them back to the bubble nest for them to breath. after the babies free swimming, you should remove the father. you can feed them with small amount of crushed boil egg yok, micro worms, and eventually newly hatched brineshrimps. goodluck.

Answer 5

2 bettas will kill each other so id get them out of 1 tank. but i dont know how to bred them. i think they have both male&female reproductive organs