"Breeding Betta Fish - An Essential Guide"

"Breeding Betta Fish - An Essential Guide","  It will take time, money, space for around fifty jars to separate males, a secure pond with no other fish and a good level of experience caring for Bettas already.
This can be difficult, as few stores sell them.
Start with cheap Bettas, to avoid wasting lots of money.
Look for fish with some energy to increase the chances of spawning.


Prepare the mating tank, ten gallons is about right.
The temperature should be around eighty degrees and the depth about six inches until the fry, or baby fish, begin swimming.
However, they cannot handle a powerful filter.
Instead, use floss or sponges.
It is wise to let the pump operate through a complete cycle before fish are exposed to it to allow bacteria to grow.
One breeder recommends the following sequence: BettaMin, Freeze Dried Blood Worms, some live or frozen brine shrimp, then a few live Black Worms.
Do not overfeed, as this will still force you to clean the tank and replace the water more often.
The male should be in the breeding tank, and should be able to see the female in her tank.


With the high quality food, the female should begin to plump up as eggs are produced.
If that isn't showing, look near the anal fin for a white gravid tube.


Now comes the key moment.  Put the female in the water with the male.
 If it gets too rough, remove the female and plan to wait a few days to let her recover, but if you don't give them a chance, there won't ever be any fry.
 He will fertilize them and begin to care for the eggs.


For the next two days, the male will keep the eggs cleaned and in the bubble nest, recovering any that fall.  For about thirty-six hours, they'll be unable to move out of the tank.
 At this point, remove the male fish lest the fry become fish food.
 They'll need feeding up to five times a day.   Many experienced breeders say this can only be done in a suitable pond.
There must be no fish to eat the fry, and a variety of tiny aquatic creatures to eat.
This is a small amount of very finely crushed flake food.
At about four weeks, they should be around a half inch long, and should begin to show sexual dimorphism, so you can tell the males from the females.



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