How many babies do Betta fish have?

Answer 1

Typical is some where around 150 eggs that hatch, but many of those will die in the first few days. A good brood should result in about 30-50 that make it to adulthood. Spawns of over 300 have been recorded but that is very rare.

Since you are getting such bad info, here's a method of breeding them that has always worked 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.

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

MM

Answer 2

In one spawn they can have several thousand fertilized eggs. My first ever try at breeding bettas I ended up with over 1000 hatched babies but since there were so many of them and I didn't want them to starve I overfed, tank bloomed with bacteria overnight and I lost about half the babies. Which still left me with 500 babies that needed feeding and cleaning. And after a few months when they started nipping each other, the aggressors needed to be separated out into separate tanks so we had tanks and fish all over the place and they all needed to be cleaned daily--I was spending a minimum of 4 hours every single night just doing water changes for months! And then had to figure out how to find them all new homes. For 500 babies.

Answer 3

It depends on how many of the fertilized eggs hatch. Just make sure that you remove the female as soon as she has finished expelling eggs. The male takes care of the eggs and will kill the female. As soon as the fry hatch you need to separate them from the adult. Then as they grow you will need to separate all the males. The females can live together tho. I suggest you get a book on raising Bettas.

Answer 4

Over 20, the male takes care of the eggs, but once they hatch from the nest get him out of there because he will eat the babies.

Answer 5

Sorry pal, but I really can't stand those ppl who anyhow bombard u with nonsense, ridulous answer!
Wat eleven? Wat thousand? Wat a Crap!
Betta can have many fry in one spawn, in hunderds, but never thousand! If you can and ever see how the male have to fetch the feterlised eggs durinng mating and newly hatched fry ONE by ONE, you will know the process will kill any living fish!!! Thousands?!! Rubbish!!
And Mr Magicman1 always have same long answers for Betta. Boring..
I prefer KISS, Keep It Simple & Short! Simple Question - Simple Answer.

Answer 6

Eleventy

Answer 7

alot, like most fish

Answer 8

up to 200 , you will have to cup them (put in indivdual cells) after they hatch.

Answer 9

i do not know