Im looking in to breeding my Betta's!?

Question

any advice and how many babies do they have after one spawning(doing the deed)?

Answer 1

Here's a method I have used for years that really works 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.

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

MM

Answer 2

you can end up with anything from 0-500 babies!!
500 being the extreme. the usual is 0-150, and you may lose some as they grow, or have to cull some because of deformities.

what kind of bettas do you have? breeding an older pair will result in fertilitiy problems and more deformed fry. it's best to breed a pair that are between 8 months - 1 year old. plan your pair! the link below has the best guide i've found for choosing a pair and the spawning.

it's hard work and you'll need to set aside a good year of planning and care for these guys. fish stores will only take fish from 3 months old, but even then they may not. bettas don't get their full finnage until they are 8 months old.

and if you had a large spawn of 150, and 60 of those are males, those 60 males will need to be in seperate 1 gallon containers with daily water changes, as soon as they start to show aggression. and the remaining females in a large sorority tank.

Answer 3

We have mollies. They breed at will. We have a 55 gallon tank so count from now. We had a Beta but she died. If you want Beta babies get a male and female and segregate them. Then when she looks about to pop put her in a breeders net so the male won't eat them.

Answer 4

Well I hope you have lots of room and containers... ONE female Beta can Lay up to 100 eggs, that isn't the problem, the problem is that when they hatch, and they start to mature, the MALES will start eating , males and females........

check out this site it may help
http://www.ask-the-vet.com/breeding-betta-fish.htm

Answer 5

bettas can have a lot of fry
id say up to maybe
200?
and at leats maybe 20
but that all depends if you let them survive
i know people who had around 400 fry
andf only 6 survived