Breeding Bettas???

Question

I have tried everything to get my bettas to breed, does anyone have tips or god websites about how to accomplish this??? anything would help. thankz

Answer 1

I have been breeding bettas for show and for sale for over 20 years and this system works 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 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

I use to breed betas all the time when I was about 16. Are you sure you have a male and a female? Just to make sure, females are duller in color and don't have as long as a tail (males have some too but there are lots of different bettas such as long tail bettas, short tail, moon tails, etc.) anyway, you should put them into a breeding tank which you can get at pets mart or something like that for about 5 bucks. ITs a little plastic tank with a divider in teh middle. Anyway, to accomplish this, let the female and male stay in each side of the tank with teh divider in so they get used to each other. When the male produces bubbles on top of the water, he is ready. you can then remove the divider and watch carefully because they sometimes will kill the female. THey will begin a little "dance" and the male will cover himself all over the females body. After they mate, the eggs will go into the bubbles and remove the females because males will be very aggresive after mating. So, hopefully if this happens, you will have babies within weeks. Its cool to see the male pick up the babies with its mouth and brings them to the surface for air =) but unfortunately, not all will survive. I hope that this helps you in some way and I really do hope you succeed!! good luck!

Answer 3

I had good luck using a twenty gallon long tank planted at one end for the female to hide. I use a clear separator in the tank to keep the male and female apart. When the male starts building his bubble nest I carefully take out the separator. They usually take care of things themselves after that. Before you start make sure both fish are conditioned with good food like frozen beef heart found in pet stores. When the two breed under the bubble nest the male will drive the female away while he gathers the eggs and spits them up into the bubbles. They may breed several times but when they are done remove the female.
The male will tend the eggs until they hatch and then you remove the male. The fry are fed fry food which is made for very tiny fish. This again can be found in the pet store. Your filtration has to be very very light so it won't suck up the fry. It is very rewarding to grow the fry up, have fun.

Answer 4

do no longer declare to be an authority in breeding betta fish. All i've got accomplished is amassed tips i've got researched relating to the breeding of those beautiful fish. In my examine, there have been fairly attractive issues that i've got found approximately a thank you to reproduce betta fish. For a initiate, you like a woman betta fish. those are incredibly difficult to come back by potential of. maximum petstores basically inventory the greater flamboyant male bettas. although, in case you seek difficult adequate on the internet, or ask your nearby petstore properly, they are going to probable be pointed interior the splendid path. woman betta fish are incredibly uninteresting while in comparison with their male opposite numbers. some are incredibly colourful yet their fins are frequently plenty shorter than the lads. it is likewise attainable to maintain woman betta fish at the same time in an aquarium while you may no longer try this with men (truthfully, you mustn't keep 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 5

Buy some sexy fish panties , put on some slow music and light a few candles. That should do the trick!

Answer 6

have you try putting some viagras in the tank to help them breed

Answer 7

Ditto to MM
here is also an article
http://fishlesscycling.com/forum/index.php?topic=264.0

Hope that helps
Good luck


EB