how long does it take to hatch betta eggs? and should i take the male out of the tank when the babies hatch?

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i have a beautiful betta and i want to breed him with a beautiful female. i need to know if i should takew him out of the tank if the eggs hatch properly.. and how long do the eggs take to hatch? thanks for helping me!!

Answer 1

I have bred bettas for over 15 years now. Thousands of fish and thousands of spawns. Here is the method I use that wors 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

Both of the other answers come from people who have never spawned Bettas. The female should only be introduced in to the males tank after she is plump with eggs and her spawning tube is visible. The male will only accept a ripe female if he has signaled his readiness by building a bubble nest. When the pair has spawned the female is driven away by the male. In the confines of an aquarium she would be killed. The male keeps the eggs in the bubble nest until they hatch. After hatching the male continues to care for the fry for 2 to 3 weeks,until the fry develop their labyrinth organs.(So they can breathe whole air). You really need more research,probably a good Betta book. There are many other things that you need to understand to make your attempt successful i.e.,tank for spawning, food for the fry,food for conditioning the pair,room temperature for growing out the fry, type of filter for the spawning tank,and a whole lot more. I hope you won't be discouraged, because spawning Bettas can be a very rewarding experience.----Good luck,PeeTee.

Answer 3

Read up on betta breeding at www.bettatalk.com. Leave daddy fish in until all the eggs have hatched and until the babies are floating mid-water by themselves. When the babies are first born, they will sink to the bottom but as they consume the egg sac, they will begin to swim on their own. When they do that, take daddy out and give him a nice rest and recouperation in a clean tank. It takes 2-3 days (depend on how warm the tank is) days for eggs to hatch. Make sure you have EVERYTHING already handy before you start breeding--baby food, clean tanks, etc. Read the whole breeding thing on Bettatalk to know what will happen as the babies get bigger, what the demands will be on you, what you will need to provide. It won't help for you to already have baby fish who need htings that you cannot provide so you have to watch them all die.

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how long does it take to hatch betta eggs? and should i take the male out of the tank when the babies hatch?
i have a beautiful betta and i want to breed him with a beautiful female. i need to know if i should takew him out of the tank if the eggs hatch properly.. and how long do the eggs take to hatch? thanks for helping me!!

Answer 6

Male and female Bettas should not be kept together except for an hour or two in a fish bowl or small aquarium, while they spawn.

Keep each male in its own fish bowl.

Check out the website below for excellent betta fish tips and ideas!

Now, sometimes more than one Male Betta can live together in a large aquarium. But most experienced Betta Fish breeders keep each male in its own bowl.

Female Bettas can be kept together in one aquarium. Some experienced Betta breeds keep a few mild tempered males together in large aquariums with or without females. But some males are too aggressive and cannot be kept with other Bettas, except for a short time for breeding with a female.

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Answer 7

If they laid eggs, they haven't quite "made babies" yet. ;)

Generally Bettas spawn in light. Daylight, a lit aquarium at night or maybe very early in the morning as light slips into the house.

One set of evidence has to do with behavior. You male is repairing/ maintainig the nest. That could happen before or after the spawning.

If the male is trying to chase the female away, as often happens in the wild, they are more likely to have spawned than if he is still "playing up " to her or courting her.

Only extremely rarely will both sexes maintain the nest after spawning.

By the way, if your tank isn't about 80 degrees F, but lower, they may not have spawned. The bubble nest is a good sign though.

Sometimes the weather stimulates them to spawn. What ever the barometer is doing when a winter snowstorm or a summer thunder-boomer come along, the little beggars get to it.

You don't mention the side of the tank. A 10-gallon is nice because there is space for the nest and space at the other end of the tank to put a big wad of Java moss, a bunch of Java fern or evem a "cloud" of floating hornwort for her to hide from the male until you can take her out of the tank, saving her life in some cases.
I googled Betta bubblenests. At first in the following (small sized image) I didn't see any evidence of eggs. But when the image is blown up you can see eggs in that bubble mass every now and then.

http://www.exoticfishfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Betta-fish-bubble-nest.jpg

In this image they are a little easier to see.
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/2qWshME7Ad4/hqdefault.jpg

In a day or two you can see the body developing and sometimes even the eyes.

When they hatch, gently remove your male. Maybe drop the water level. (Siphon into a white contain so that you can see the fry you siphoned and can take them up in a turkey baster (dedicated to all things fishy) so you can return them to the tank.

If you can see eggs, they should hatch in 2 days. You want to set up a small quantity of brine shrimp eggs. Having a couple of small batches every day is wise. Newly hatch BBS (baby brine shrimp) are a lot small than they will be in a day and vastly more nutritious. If you try feeding 2 day old bbs, you may starve your fry.
I've not used powdered foods like APR (artificial plankton/rotifer) or Haikari's First Bites. The fry need the movement of a food animal to trigger a feeding response.

Putting a lot of plants in there (under good lighting) give the fry shelter, places to rest and hide and even offer some tiny creatures living on them which the fry can eat.

Betta people absolutely don't want snails in a spawning tank. But after all the fry are hatched, a few small ramshorn snails are useful in cleaning up uneaten food and (hopefully not) dead fry. If BBS is allowed to rot in a tank (siphon it out if need be into that white container) provides a perfect environment for the bloom of velvet or piscinoodinium. That plague can wipe out the fry very quickly.

I hope you Bettas did spawn or will spawn. If they haven't yet, that gives you time to get other separate quarters for you male & female and maybe time to learn how to hatch BBS. Please check out the second source below and don't be shy Googling "raising Betta fry."

Good luck (which we often make for ourselves) and all the best!

http://www.bettatalk.com/how_bettas_spawn.htm
https://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070301150512AAnFkO1

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Answer 9

My betta eggs took about 36 hours

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