i have a male fighter fish which is i year old.i want 2 breed more fighter fish<fry>?

Question

when i put a female fighter fish it will start fighting with what shall i 2

Answer 1

Breeding tank: A 10 gallon makes a good breeding tank for bettas. Place it 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

Go to Bettatalk.com it is a great website where I learned most of everything before I bred my fish. And they aren't really that difficult to breed if you set up the right conditions. Just tossing a female in with a male is NOT the right conditions!! You have to get them in "the mood" first. Take some time and learn about what you are trying to do and read lots of accounts of what happened the first time others tried to do this. Focus especially on what can go wrong and watch for it. Also, before you even put the little lady in with the male, you need to have some fry food, microworms I have found work best, they are cheap (I've only been able to order them online, try aquabid.com) easy to maintain and tasty! (or so they seem) GOOD LUCK!

Answer 3

There are good,inexpensive books that will explain conditioning the fish, caring for the fry, feeding the fry, feeding the adults for condition,keeping the water clean,preparing the spawning tank,depth of water in the spawning tank,filters for the spawning tank,and lots more. For starters you don't just toss the female into the males tank,he'll just kill her if she's not in spawning condition.

Answer 4

First make shore you have a girl and a boy. Most people can't tell the difference so check to see if the girl has a white spot on her belly. It's going to be hard to see if you don't know what your looking for. And second why do you think they're called fighting fish. It's what they do. Try to get some books on the subject. They might help.