Ok say if I bought some top quality Betta's from a good breeder and decided to breed them myself. If I took say a red halfmoon male and bred it with a blue halfmoon female, would it still be considered top quality or would it be like a pet store fish? Should I breed a red halfmoon male with a red halfmoon female or can I mix the colors up?
2007-05-15 08:50:22 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
If you are dealing with top quality fish, you should keep the colors pure in my opinion. Those lines are often the result of decades of work to get the color pure. Any serious breeder would then consider them no better than pet shop fish in most cases and you certainly wouldn't be able to sell them for any more than you would the spawn from pet shop fish.
Pick your color, style, fin shape and get good stock that matches. I would suggest you by a pair from one breeder and a pair from another breeder and cross them.. Mix the male from one breeder tot he female from the other and visa versa. Then breed a male from the first batch to a female from the second batch. Now you have what any breeders would consider to be your owne line of fish. Mix in a great female from yet a third breeder and you might end up with fish that look better than those from any of the breeders you started from!
IF you really want to mix colors, get a blue male and an opaque female and breed them for marble color pattern, but if you like marbled fish, I would still say just buy some marbled breeding stock.
MM
2007-05-15 09:01:35 · answer #1 · answered by magicman116 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The out crossed fish would be of lesser value than true line fish because they would not breed true. The real science of breeding Bettas is not finding a pretty cross,but getting them to breed true. in other words you might not produce true breeding Half-moons and there you have Pet store fish. There are some good books on Betta genetics out there,that will provide answers to your questions.Very technical answers,but correct ones.
2007-05-15 16:01:22 · answer #2 · answered by PeeTee 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i have read that it is very hard to breed betas. they actually breed them and keep them in a pond that has misquito lava in them...that is how often the baby fish eat after they hatch.
you would have better luck breeding guppies.
2007-05-15 16:26:56 · answer #3 · answered by abigmal 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋