i wanna breed bettas ?

Question

i planing on getting a female and a male and just put them in the tank and hpefullt they will breed but if not owe well anyways i need to know

1 will the mom and dad figtht
2 will the parents eat the babies
3will the fry attack each other,what age will they
4when do i have to seprate the fry
5 how many babies do they have
6 are they easy to take care of

Answer 1

Hey Susan,

1 Except when they are actually breeding they will fight, so you have to separate them as soon as they are done.

2. Possibly, you remove the male after the babies are swimming around to prevent that.

3. No, not until they are separated or get sexually mature.

4. You separate the males and females as soon as you can tell them apart.

5. They can have several hundred, but a good spawn will leave you with about 50-75 sell able fish

6. Not too hard as long as you are prepared.

Below is the way I breed them. It works for me quite well

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 separate 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 adding 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 success. 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 separate them. Once separated 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

1. Mom and dad wont fight until after they mate - Dad wants nothing to do with her and wants to protect the babies from her. She should be removed after they mate.
2. The dad may eat a baby or two but it is highly unlikely. He has to stay in the tank with the fry until they leave their sacks and can flourish on their own. The mom may eat the babies so remove her.
3.. As fry, they won't attack each other, as they mature they will. However I have seen a 125G tank with maybe 40 bettas (male and female) in it. This tank was heavily planted however. Only small altercations occurred, no fights to the death, so it is possible under the right conditions.
4. probably at about 3-4 months
5. Depending on tank conditions 5 to as many at 40 or more
6. It take patience and time. You will need to feed them a liquid food the first couple weeks.


7. A 10 gallon tank with a sponge filter would be ideal
8. Use a tank with not gravel. This make its easier for the male to return the fry to the bubble nest

Answer 3

First of all are you prepared to spend well over 200 dollars if not alot more on all of the proper equipment to do this? Have you researched this? Do you have enough housing for juvenile male bettas? This is most likely going to be a waste of your time and money trying to breed bettas. It is extremely hard to breed them. I researched breeding bettas for about a year before actually getting everything I needed to do it. I was completely set up and ready to go but its hard to do. So I pretty much spent alot of money to have no babies. I'm not sayin that you cant get it to work, I'm just saying that it is extremely difficult, its alot like gambling, so just be prepared. As for your questions:
1: They will fight if they are left housed together, the only time they can be in with eachother are when she is ready for some male attention.
2: Any fish will eat its babies. The female needs to be removed right after spawing, the male takes care of the eggs, but when the fry hatch out, they are a fair meal for the male betta.
3: the fry wont attack eachother until they become juvenile bettas. Only the males will fight, females may be housed together. Each juvenile male betta is going to have its own space to live, most people use mason jars to house juveniles until they can find a place for them to go.
4: you need to seperate the fry when you can positively identify males from females. Males are the only ones that need to be seperated.
5: They can have up to 100 babies at a time, that is usually not the case but they can have quite a few. My fish (guppies) usually give me about 35-40 babies.
6: THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT easy to take care of. The fry are very small when they hatch so they need very tiny food, you shouldnt have a filtration system going because it could suck up the small fry, so it is easy to over feed and pollute the tank and kill the babies. They are very time demanding and you have got to be diligent about what you do.

Before you actually attempt this I recommend extensive research, and check your bank account.

Answer 4

Okay, if you want answers, you'll get them. My two fish had fry ( witch means baby fish). If you wanted to know, they were not Betta's. I still know some answers to some of your questions, though. 1. My dad said the girl and the boy fish will not fight. Only to same sexes will fight. 2. Yes the parents will eat the babies because they have a memory Span of 3 seconds. 3. I have no clue. 4. I would say about 4 or five weeks to seven weeks. 5. I t depends on how many eggs. 6. Fry are never easy to take care of.
I hope that answered most of your questions.

Answer 5

www.bettatalk.com has a pretty comprehensive section on breeding and raising bettas you should read.

The male and female may well fight. They need to be conditioned and prepared for mating. If done correctly, you ought not to have much damage done to either breeder. The female usually is removed before teh eggs are hatched (egg and newborn duties fall on the dad to do). But an underconditioned dad, or a psycho egg-eating dad, will sometimes eat his own eggs (sometimes the eggs are not viable which he can tell but you can't so sometimes his eating the eggs is understandable). Underfed fry will often eat each other--the older and bigger ones will eat their smaller siblings. Trying to make sure all the babies are getting sufficient food is often how the baby tank gets polluted and kills all the babies. Daddy is taken out once the newborn fry can swim and float in the water; he'll begin to have a hard time keeping track of them. Betta fry only need to be separated once they hit adolescence (3-4 months or so) and start to nip each other. A female can lay 500 and more eggs in one mating--it is not unheard of for a female to lay a couple thousand eggs. If you start with totally sanitary conditions, have prepared ahead of time for babies--including already having the various foods they need before you do the mating, having tanks up and cycled before you need them, conditioning the parents, setting aside time to monitor the mating (never leave your breeding pair alone together becuase you have to be there to separate them if one gets too aggressive), do the tank cleanings and water changes without fail no matter what else may happen in your life, and have a realistic plan regarding what you're going to do with all those babies, they are easy to care for. Baby fish need to be fed without fail at least twice a day, their tank needs to be kept extremely clean because bacteria and fungus will instantly kill your babies. Newborn baby bettas are tiny and sometimes hard to see so it's hard to tell when they have enough food and it's sooooooo easy to overfeed and then have bacteria bloom and kill everyone.

Answer 6

OK

1 no, he will rap himself around her and squeeze the fry out of her but wait until the male makes a bubble nest(there will be a lot of bubbles on the side of the tank.) before putting her in with him.

2 Yes, but sometimes no.
3 yes when they start to get big and trust me you'll know
4 When you see there head fins pop out
5 A LOT!!!!
6 it depends on the parents (if they don't try to eat them)

Answer 7

Feeding a form of stay ingredients will help. additionally water conditioners with almond extract by some skill help. There are some youtube vids. that'll help too. Sorry this answer is short, i might desire to scrub my fishtank and feed them. i'm going to edit this later.

Answer 8

ummm... do a google search for "Breeding betas"