Breeding Bettas......... Any tips?

Trickster · Member Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 309 Location: My Chair

Me and my friend are planning on breeding Bettas, We know they have to be of same String and the basics. Anyone got any tips or experiance they would like to pass down???

M_wm · Senior Member Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 613

This is one of the best things ive read, It describes how much of a pain in the ares and how complex breeding bettas is. Ontop of that you need to find a home for ur bettas and like 99% of LFS wont take common VT bettas. If your going to breed bettas get high quility Fancy ones so you wont have trouble selling them.

http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=37944

t_chelle16 · Moderator Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 3437

http://flippersandfins.net/BettaBreedingArticle.htm (very good article written by the owner of Colorado Crowntails. She has TONS of experience breeding bettas).

But like M_wm said, breeding bettas is really difficult and requires a lot of time and space. Bettas can produce hundreds of fry and as they grow, they will eventually need their own separate containers which will take up tons of space and likely require water changes every other day.

-Chelle

tuttifrutti · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject:

I tried it, and gave up. I was having a very hard time getting the males to accept the females, and then, though i had read it was easy without all of the equipment, i thought about getting some equipment, but that would've been more than i was willing to spend. but if you really want to and have the space, time, and money, then i would try it. i still think it would be cool, but...i had my chance.

Trickster · Member Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 309 Location: My Chair

Thx for info, we werent gonna breed VTs we know what they are and we know most stores dont take them, we wana breed crowntails prefeerably Red, green or yellow.