So, just wondering if anyone breeds bettas... I've currently got 5 males (a lilac mustard gas dragonscale plakat, a red giant crowntail, a purple crowntail, a blue crowntail, and a teal dragonscale halfmoon). Each male has a half-filled 10 gallon, filled with floating plants and heated to 82 degrees F. Still planning on finding females for each of the males (will all be kept in separate tanks as well), as well as finding a male copper dragonscale halfmoon plakat, a blue butterfly, a snow white dragonscale halfmoon, and a solid black plakat.
Anyone Breed Bettas?
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i tried but failed, the betta fry is very fragile...goolduck with your braading program post pics of your bettas 
I did it once, years ago, but I did not do it, um...responsibly, exactly. What I mean by that is I bred two unremarkable pet store bettas, i.e. not genetic lines that the world really needed any more of. I was keeping two or three females in a community tank at the time, and I set up a male in a warm, partially filled 10g w/ a 1/2 plastic cup floating (but anchored to the side with tape) for the bubble nest. I used a glass chimney for a hurricane lamp to introduce the female. Things progressed as the books said they should. After merciless culling, several new females for the community tank, and efforts to give away males to anybody I knew, as many as they would take, I ended up with (I think) 9 new (unremarkable, to anyone but me) male bettas of my own to care for, and of course a sense of accomplishment....
Before anyone flames me, yes I have learned that breeding low-quality bettas is not a good idea, and I've also learned the related lesson that it is cruel and irresponsible to breed fish when you cannot keep, sell, or give away enough of them to avoid "culling" healthy juveniles. Like I said, years ago. Once.
But beyond the ethical problems? It was extremely interesting, and a lot of fun.
Before anyone flames me, yes I have learned that breeding low-quality bettas is not a good idea, and I've also learned the related lesson that it is cruel and irresponsible to breed fish when you cannot keep, sell, or give away enough of them to avoid "culling" healthy juveniles. Like I said, years ago. Once.
But beyond the ethical problems? It was extremely interesting, and a lot of fun.
i used to breed bettas. most pairs were bought from breeders to insure good lineage and quality fry. even with these thoroughbred bettas, there were a lot of fry that ended up not looking anything like the parents. it is a lot of responsibility. very time consuming and you will need a lot of space. fry need to be separated after a while and frequent water changes are a must. it took me a couple tries to successfully raise a batch. it was fun at first, then became a bit of a pain. after about 5-6 months from hatching, you'll need to figure out what to do with all the bettas... i still enjoy bettas, but i doubt i will be breeding them again.
Yeah, I had forgotten the time spent on water changes after separating the males. It's definitely something that requires a lot of time and space.
It is very easy to breed them but it took forever for the babies to grow up. I guess if you had a pond to dump them in would have been a different story. When you breed them, you have to have plants and moss in the tank for the female to hide otherwise he will kill her. When she finally lays the eggs, you will have to take the female out. You can not have air moving the water otherwise it will disrupt the male from keeping the eggs on the nest. When the babies starts to swim, you will have to take the male out and keep the babies by themselves. If you have plants in there, it will provide some food particles from the plant matter. You will need to make some liquid food to supplement for a few days until they can eat newly hatched brine shrimp. Once they eat that it is much easier. Putting them in a larger tank will help them grow faster. They don't fight until they are much older. Also, you do have to keep them consistently warm. Good Luck.
this is my first attempt at breeding bettas, im not sure if htis will work though, i have a male betta raja (or king betta) as some call them, two female betta splendas, and one femle round tail. the splendas are bubble nestors but the raja (or king) is a mouth brooder.... so i guess we will see. if anyone has any incite into this please comment. any tips are appreciated.
i have a 30g community tank with 2 veil tail? bettas one male and one femalei got them from a lfs, im guessing theyre going to be pairing up since they follow eachother, and huddle in the corner of the tank also..the males breeding tube is very noticable and on the bottom of his mouth is kind of getting bigger...i was wondering how would i be able to let them build the bubble nest if theres alot of water flow? is there anything i can put in the tank so that the water isnt flowing as fast?
I did this about 7 yrs ago.... i let the female pick here male, It was actually thr youngest male who breed with a more mature female(cougar betta lol) I found more mature males just fight and chase and the youngs usually get it right( part of the time) avoid young females buy girls that have big side (junk in the front where the eggs store in the body) thats my tricks, and just watch them youll know when to pull a girl out if she looks like shes too strees , not rocket science.