well this summer im gonna make my 10g a breeding tank for two bettas that im gonna buy this summer i just wanna know which one of the parents eats the babies after they have bred?
i wanna mate bettas
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Are you prepared to house 300+ individual betta fry?
The males will need to be separated, and same with some females.
The containers need to be cleaned every single day.
Make sure you're prepared!!!! Please!
Both parents will eat them.
The female needs to be removed when they're done mating, and the male should be removed after a few days.
Sometimes males will eat the eggs straight from the bubblenest, so some males are not fit to be parents.
The males will need to be separated, and same with some females.
The containers need to be cleaned every single day.
Make sure you're prepared!!!! Please!
Both parents will eat them.
The female needs to be removed when they're done mating, and the male should be removed after a few days.
Sometimes males will eat the eggs straight from the bubblenest, so some males are not fit to be parents.
i thought about mating bettas, but the 300+ cups sittting around stopped me.
I am too caring about fish to breed more of them. The stores already breed them in mass.
I am too caring about fish to breed more of them. The stores already breed them in mass.
www.ibc-smp.org Get something other than betta splendens. Most other species will live together in the same tank. Either way, a 10 is really overkill for most betta species. go check out the website I listed above, there's tons of info there on other bettas. otherwise, better hit the garage sales for cups! Kyle
I think it's a great learning experience. DOn't let people discourage you. My brother successfully bred bettas and he has very little experience with fishkeeping. Just do a lot of research first. Especially being new, 300 fry will not survive so i don't think having 300 cups around will be your problem. You should know that it is the male betta that cares for the young. DO RESEARCH.
http://www.angelfire.com/wa/daphnia/betta.html
http://members.aol.com/WJohn63834/Breeding_Your_Beauties.html
http://fish_house_guy.tripod.com/BettaHouse/id21.html
http://freshaquarium.about.com/cs/anabantids/
http://www.bettaone.com/bettabreeding.htm
http://www.starpoint.net/~dave/betfaq.html
http://www.angelfire.com/wa/daphnia/betta.html
http://members.aol.com/WJohn63834/Breeding_Your_Beauties.html
http://fish_house_guy.tripod.com/BettaHouse/id21.html
http://freshaquarium.about.com/cs/anabantids/
http://www.bettaone.com/bettabreeding.htm
http://www.starpoint.net/~dave/betfaq.html
If 300 fry are successfully born, with adequate care, the majority of those WILL survive. Yes, if you do not take care of them properly, they wont all survive, most likely the majority of them will die. Breeding is the easy part. Raising healthy fry is where the challenge is.
I think that if a couple of the 300 fry do not survive to adulthood, he will be ok... And I do not think that every single fry survives everytime someone breeds a fish. Is there a smiley indicating the rolling of eyes?
I did a betta spawn last year......I got over 200 fry and most of them survived. It was great a great learning experience and I enjoyed watching them grow and seeing what colors they were and finnage and such as they grew. The dad was a beautiful steel blue CT...the female was steel as well, but not CT.
The fry tank must be kept very clean and you have to keep something over the top so cooler air doesn't get to the fry when they come up for a breath. The air over the water has to be warm and moist all the time.
It wasn't really alot of work believe it or not....at least I didn't think so because I was enjoying it so much...but what I had to do I had to do EVERY DAY for over 6 months ! Which really became an issue come summer. Had a family crisis and had to leave all the babies with my husband and daughter...they survived the experience..(both the fish AND my family..lol)..
I had a system of 10oz clear plastic cups on some shelving that I had set up. I used airline tube to syphon water from the cups into a bucket and then refilled the cups by just pouring water into them with a pitcher. It worked, but I really had no way of keeping the temps above room temp so it was good that I did it during the summer. I bred the fish in March, didn't get rid of all the fry until around Sept...sad thing is, after all that work I believe most of them died due to the ignorance and carelessness of those who took them home. So that's something to consider. Most of my fry were females...everyone wanted the males...I ended up practically giving the females to a LFS for about 25 cents a piece store credit..which was ok since by then I had had it...lol..
You will also need to keep two batches of brine shrimp going constantly, which isn't much work but you have to be sure you have another batch ready when the old batch is finished...they have to eat 2-3 times a day. I did eventually feed them pellets, but I don't think those are as good for them as brine shrimp and micro worms.
Actually, it WAS alot of work and I havn't done another spawn since. I don't think I will either unless I have a proper barracks system for them.
Do lots of research before you even think about starting something like that. RIght now I am raising a tank full of baby blue rams.....they're much easier so far...for one, I didn't get quite so many !
The fry tank must be kept very clean and you have to keep something over the top so cooler air doesn't get to the fry when they come up for a breath. The air over the water has to be warm and moist all the time.
It wasn't really alot of work believe it or not....at least I didn't think so because I was enjoying it so much...but what I had to do I had to do EVERY DAY for over 6 months ! Which really became an issue come summer. Had a family crisis and had to leave all the babies with my husband and daughter...they survived the experience..(both the fish AND my family..lol)..
I had a system of 10oz clear plastic cups on some shelving that I had set up. I used airline tube to syphon water from the cups into a bucket and then refilled the cups by just pouring water into them with a pitcher. It worked, but I really had no way of keeping the temps above room temp so it was good that I did it during the summer. I bred the fish in March, didn't get rid of all the fry until around Sept...sad thing is, after all that work I believe most of them died due to the ignorance and carelessness of those who took them home. So that's something to consider. Most of my fry were females...everyone wanted the males...I ended up practically giving the females to a LFS for about 25 cents a piece store credit..which was ok since by then I had had it...lol..
You will also need to keep two batches of brine shrimp going constantly, which isn't much work but you have to be sure you have another batch ready when the old batch is finished...they have to eat 2-3 times a day. I did eventually feed them pellets, but I don't think those are as good for them as brine shrimp and micro worms.
Actually, it WAS alot of work and I havn't done another spawn since. I don't think I will either unless I have a proper barracks system for them.
Do lots of research before you even think about starting something like that. RIght now I am raising a tank full of baby blue rams.....they're much easier so far...for one, I didn't get quite so many !
Kissofthegorami said:
If a couple fry die out of 300 that's still a lot of fry left to be taken care of.
You're right, not ALL fry will survive, but like I said, if their needs are met, the majority of the fry will survive.
just put a devider in the 10g and house 2-4 male bettas (all seperate) for now. They will be awesome to watch, and you won't have to worry about all of that stuff.