Breeding my bettas!!!!?

Question

I have a male and female betta i want to breed them i have done loads of research on breeding the bettas but i want to know if there is any more information i need to know and how is best to do it and what to do if the bettas deside not to breed please help me thank you. :):):)

Answer 1

This system has worked well for me for years and years and thousands of betta spawnings.

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

do not declare to be an expert in breeding betta fish. All i've got performed is accrued advice i've got researched with reference to the breeding of those beautiful fish. In my learn, there have been fairly desirable issues that i've got chanced on approximately a thank you to reproduce betta fish. For a start up, you like a girl betta fish. those are especially troublesome to return by potential of. maximum petstores purely inventory the extra flamboyant male bettas. even however, in case you seek troublesome adequate on the internet, or ask your interior reach petstore precise, they'll probable be pointed interior the main appropriate direction. lady betta fish are especially uninteresting whilst in comparison with their male opposite numbers. some are especially colourful yet their fins are oftentimes lots shorter than the lads. it is likewise achieveable to maintain lady betta fish jointly in an aquarium while you are able to not try this with men (in actuality, you're able to not shop the female betta with the male the two - or something that even seems remotely like a male betta eg fantail guppies - they are going to be attacked).

Answer 3

Breeding is the easy part. (Well relatively speaking some times they just aren't into each other, or stage a cage match.) Setting up the breeding tank, and raising the fry is hard. Betta talk is a good resource for this.

Answer 4

HOW THEY BREED

there are two stages that bubble nest breeders take when breeding.

stage one: the male takes a intrest in the female, circles her and scares her into going under the bubble nest that he has prepared to incubate the eggs.

stage two: when the two fish are under the bubble nest, the male pushes up the female until they are under the bubble nest and wraps himself around her. she ejects her eggs and as they fall, the male releases his milt and places them jently in the nest. Remove the female after breeding, as the male will try to kill her. The male will then protect the eggs until they hatch, but will eat them when they do. Remove eggs after fertilization.

For more info, check out the website. Good luck!

Answer 5

sickk
i got mine to breed last night haha

www.bettatalk.com

check it out hope it helps

-Ivan

Answer 6

if you are really unshure ask your local vet