i have 2 male bettas (theyre separate), and i wanna get a female one. i thought about breeding them, and i was wondering how hard it was, and if i could make a living breeding and selling them so i could save up and get an apartment when im 18. :]
2007-03-28
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i at least wanna make a living until im 18, you pube. >.<
2007-03-28
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First, breeding bettas isn't all that hard at all once you have everything all set up and you're prepared. Now, I wouldn't expect to make a living from it, but if you get really good breeding stock from a quality breeder ( I recommend International Betta Congress breeders) hen you can make several dollars per fish from the effort. But to make good money, you better have an empty room you can use just for breeding and raising fish. I have been breeding bettas for over 20 years and here's the sysem 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 temperature 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
2007-03-28 17:28:36
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answered by magicman116 7
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Betta's actually breed rather easy if you're set up properly. What most people don't know is that a Betta needs more then a bowl, water and food. They require a complete tank set up, Min. 5 gallons with heat, etc.
The hardest part about breeding Bettas is that you can not house the males together. This poses a problem because you'd need many many tanks to seperate the growing fish or they will fight and kill one another.
If you are serious about properly doing it, there are many Betta breeding websites. Also the typical Bettas you see at Walmart are bottom of the barrel. There are different kinds that are beautiful and sell for $50 - $100, of course that would take time, money and much knowledge. Just sayin' if you CAN make a living from it if you know what you're doing, but it's not easy.
The Bettas you probably have are worth only a few bucks a piece. Here is a link to a breeders site. http://www.bettatalk.com/spawning_setup.htm that is the very minimum you'd need. MINIMUM! Expect to spend more.
Honestly if you're looking to save up some cash while you get through school, sell stuff on eBay. Children's and Baby clothes go like wild fire, even used. Hit the garage sales, thrift stores and clearance sections of local stores. You'd be amazed at what people on eBay pay.
2007-03-28 17:12:23
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answered by CountryMomma 2
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hahaha
id say to get everything
from breeding to the grow out tank then to the small bowls when they are 4 months old
around 200-400$ minimum 200
www.bettatalk.com
ok so to sell them
get crown tails
or delta tails or super delta tails
basically if you see one betta for 5 $
and one for 20$ get the one for 20 its a better fish
also you should be buying your fish off of breeder
http://www.aquabid.com/
will work perfect
anyways thta site should have what you need
oh one more thing
to make a living on fish
umm your gonna need a few spawns going at a time
so lets say 4 spawns
so 8 20$ fish
4 tanks at 10 $ a peice
and thermometers alone are around 40$
so already with 3 things you are spending over 300$
then you coudl sell the fish for id say 5-20$ each
2007-03-28 17:25:03
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answered by Anonymous
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Sorry to crush your dreams, but breeding bettas will not help you
save up for an apartment. I've been in the fish business for a while and bettas are sold for roughly a couple pennies to importers in the USA. Unless you're planning on setting up a fish farm your not going to breed enough fish to make profits. You search the web for more info on breeding bettas using yahoo or google web browsers. Good luck!
2007-03-28 18:46:24
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answered by T 1 1
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they're difficult fish to reproduce. they're tropical fish so want heated water in any respect cases. the ecosystem must be stored in optimal subject while breeding, the fish must be in impressive subject to bypass in the time of the breeding technique. that is stressful artwork, and theres a 50/50 risk of having any fry in any respect, or perhaps although they're able to producing as much as 500 eggs, maximum fish turning out to be to person finally end up being between a million-20 persons, till you're very experienced and have betta barracks and each and all of the kit waiting and set up. experienced betta breeders have fish rooms, finished rooms dedicated to tanks, with 1000's of tanks and fish. very very time eating. as quickly as male toddlers, and each so often women, start to tutor aggression in the direction of their siblings, they must be seperated to their very own improve out tank. toddler bettas are additionally very sluggish growers, will take in to 7-8 months before any fish shop will take them. that's a protracted time to have lots of individual tanks desiring on a regular basis care.
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answered by kurihara 4
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um first of all to become a succesfull betta breeder, youve got to own your own fish store. Every fish store in the world breeds bettas but it is extremely easy to answer your questin i breed bettas all the time and feed them to my flower horn
2007-03-28 18:05:34
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answered by Anonymous
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Let me get this straight . . . . . . . . . . . . .
You want to make a living breeding and selling Bettas . . . . . . .
ONLY IN YOUR DREAMS!
2007-03-28 16:52:57
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answered by Say What? 5
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(3rd post) Thats horrible!!
I recomend not breeding as it does absolutly nothing to improve the species (besides color).
2007-03-28 16:54:05
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answered by pescimonger 1
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check out this link!! Good luck!!!
2007-03-28 16:47:44
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answered by heatherpd 2
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i think you should breed them for fighting capabilities since thats what people use them for.
2007-03-28 16:50:27
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answered by Anonymous
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