How do breed Betta's? How do you no when they are breeding ?

[Caroline CS]

I have had 7 betta's in my life time, but have never put them together and tried to bred them. How do you no if it is a Male or Female? When you put the Male and Female in the same tank, do they bred right away? Maybe in weeks? Never? Are the males picky, will they bred with the female right away or not? What do they do when they are mating? Do you separate them after? How long is she pregnant? Where does she lay the eggs? How many are born? When do they hatch? How many live? Will she eat them? Do you have to separate the babies?

I no, i have so may questions it over whelming. I love the help and much appreciate it!

Carrie

[Dance Dude]

Betta's are Chinese fighting fish they cannot be together its bad enought they can't be with other fish. Sorry.

[hvincent]

[Registered users only can see links. ] This is a good post on how to breed bettas.

You can keep three or more females together in the same tank with mostly no problems. Males need to be separated from all other bettas.

[wiccansinger]

Originally Posted by Dance Dude

Betta's are Chinese fighting fish they cannot be together its bad enought they can't be with other fish. Sorry.

That is a common misconception, only males cannot be together, females can be with other females however you need 4 or more in a tank together or one per 2 gal tank or 7.57L (however 4 bettas need 8 gals or aprox 30L) females are smaller than males, they have not got the long flowy tails that most males have (except plakats) however you can usually buy them from your lps.

You need to condition your female and male for over a month, this is done by feeding a high protein diet ie live foods. you cannot just put them together, the female needs to get verticle stripes on her body, they are paler than her normal colour, the male usually has a huge bubble nest but not always, and they have to be compatible, you will not always have one male and one female together and them want to breed together. you need them exposed to each other while you are conditioning them. the females ovipositer (white spot on her underbelly) has to be protruding from the body.

there is usually 250 to 500 eggs layed by the female, up to 600 have been known to happen. you need a tank that is at least 10 gallons or about 40L for the fry, this is filled to the 6 inches mark (15cm) and then slowly filled to the top as the fry grow, the males need to be separated when they reach about 2 or 3 months (virtually when they start flaring at others) but the females can stay together, you need a lps or other place willing to buy your fry before you breed. you have your male with the fry until they are free swimming (usually a week) but remove the female after mating because she will most likely eat the fry (rare occasions they dont but better safe than sorry).

you need a heater set to a constant 80 degrees F (27 C) as well as a microworm culture and a brineshrimp hatchery (you feed day old baby brine shrimp). you feed microworms after they are free swimming for about a week or 2 then switch to baby brine shrimp, however still feed the microworms for another week or so with the baby brine shrimp for those unable to eat them yet.

I know i have left things out, so search the forum, there are many people who have asked the exact same question as you, all it requires is research. i reccomend looking up betta books at your library, as well as looking up breeding on the net, find out if there is anyone you know who has bred them before to get info off them, you need a lot of planning before you can breed.

[bettalvr]

Caroline, PLEASE read many articles on betta fish BEFORE you even consider putting your fish together. There are several websites with great info along with this forum. After reading hours & hours of info, please feel free to post more questions. It is almost impossible to tell you everything you need to know about bettas and breeding in a post. It has to be your responsibility to research and learn about the fish in general long before you ever attempt breeding.

Dance Dude, these are NOT "Chinese" fighting fish. They are Siamese Fighting Fish. Males do need to separated from other male bettas, but I personally have had a male in a community tank that did very well. As for my girls, I usually house 5-6 per tank and they get along fine. Please do some research on these wonderful fish before posting erroneous information that just leads to further erroneous information being passed around.

Caroline & Dance Dude emo-welcome100.gif