havning second thoughts on bettas? help? try new fish???

Question

welll
i wanted bettas to breed
i have bread other fish like guppys when i was in liek gr 7 and hamsters/dwarf hamsters
all in gr 7 haha

but anyways lol what other kind of fish breed easily?
and fast
and in large amounts
?
i have read knife/sword (i dont knwo which one) tail fish are easy
and so are guppys
so what do you guys think ?
and if you have experince
tell me around how much it would cost?

i have a filter
sponge filter
plants
rocks
2 10 gal tank and 1 5 gal
and 2 1 gal bowls
and a submersible heater

Answer 1

here is a good site on breeding bettas -- its not that easy --

http://www.flippersandfins.net/BettaBreedingArticle.htm

easy to breed are live bearers like guppies, swordtails, mollies, platys. they all breed about the same. there are nicer breeds than others so do your homework -- balloon lyretail mollies are worth a lot more than a standard black one.

Answer 2

Bettas can be tough - they breed easily enough, but the fry can be hard to raise!

Any of the livebearers (guppies, swordtails, mollies and platies [also called moons]) are easy. If you want the fry to survive, either use a breeder net or have plenty of plants for them to hide in.

If you have a 30 gallon or larger tank, you could try a pair of convict cichlids - they're easy and don't eat their babies. All they need is a clay flowerpot (just a little bigger than the fish) turned on its side. They'll lay the eggs inside the flowerpot, fan them with their fins, and when the fry hatch, they'll herd them around the tank, turn rocks over to find food, or chew up cichlid pellets and spit the food out for the babies. These are really fun to watch raise the "kids".

As far as expense, all you need is the tank , filter, heater, fish and food. It sounds like you already have a tank, so I'd go with what equipment you'd still need and what type of fish interests you most. You can get the best idea of expenses by pricing the fish and supplies in a local store.

Here are two websites where you can research your fish, then you can do further web searches from there. Good Luck!

http://www.fishlore.com/
http://www.elmersaquarium.com/000tropfishcareguides.htm
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/categ.cfm?pcatid=830

Answer 3

Yeah, bettas are harder to breed than guppies.

If you want easy, you should stick to livebearers like the guppies. That group includes mollies, platies, and swordtails. What kind you get depends more on what size tank you have than anything.

Guppies are the smallest at 1-2" and you can keep a couple of 5 gallon tanks to breed in with them -- one tank for a male and 2 or 3 females, and the other to put females in before they give birth. Separate the female when she's done having the babies, and feed the fry separately until they are big enough not to fit in the adults' mouths.

Platies and most mollies are 2-3" and you could keep the adults in a 5 or 10 gallon in the same 1 male to 2 or 3 females ratio, plus a 5 gallon for the fry.

Swordtails, dalmation mollies and many of the sailfin variety mollies can grow as big as 4-6" though, and they still interbreed with the smaller varieties so be sure that you're buying from a knowledgeable fishstore so you know what you're getting. The larger variety adults shouldn't be kept in less than a 15 or 20 gallon tank.

Also, do you have plans for the fry once they get big enough to survive in adult tanks? You can't put them back into the adult tanks unless you have much larger tanks or you'll very quickly get overstocked and your fish will start getting sick and dying.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

with your set up you could go for any one of the more common live bearers. Swordtails, mollies, platys, guppies and there are more. Zebra danios and leopard danios are very easy to breed and easy to raise. You can also breed kribs in a 10 gallon as well as many of the dwarf apistogrammas, although those are not the easiest of fish to breed and raise. You might have good luck with dwarf gouramis or sparkling gouramis. Which ever one you pick the keys to success are reading up on how to breed the fish and raise the babies...raising the babies is often harder than getting the fish to breed so be sure you are ready for that and of course patience. Sometimes it takes trying several times before you get a spawning and several times before you can raise the babies. Don't give up, patience is rewarded!

I would suggest you "get your feet wet" with one of the live bearers and once you have raised a couple of sets of babies try your hand again at bettas or dwarf gouramis.

Hope this helps

MM

Answer 6

I currently got "thrown" into the whole breeding thing about six months ago .
Easiest fish to breed is Mollies. Their gestation is about 30-60 days...
and they spit out between 25-40 babies at a time... and get pregnant about 3 times (even with no male)...
My dalmation molly had a total of about 78 live babies.... over the past 6 months, she just had her last group of fry 5 days ago..
Mollies are cheap and easy to care for fish
Mollies at petsmart range from 2 dollars - 5 dollars at most. , and you can get them already pregnant... just watch their bellies.

I hope I helped!

Answer 7

I have never bread fish so i can't help you but i think to bread beta would be 9 dollars.

Answer 8

african cichlids breed like crazy