Advice

[livebreeder]

hey any advice i want to breed betta's so badly i have a pair but i can't breed them because, i don't have 2 things,
no live food and no heater, the heaters are way over my budget and live food only come frozen like frozen brine shrimp, can that work if i just crush it up to powder, my male blows bubbles everday he changes the location of his cup i usually let him move the cup, "Yes" he moves the cup himself, and another thing when the female is in the vase she stares at him and flares but never shows bar lines she is like a dark purple with a little red, when they are in the same tank she stays in one conner and if he comes near she dashes away, when i first got her she was small and slim now her stomach is fat i think with eggs and she has a white spot at her anal,i can't remember why that is there,

he is a turquoise super delta in the day time
he is a purple with turquoise in the night why is this,


Please help i really need the advice and help, some one be my guide to successful breeding.


Thanks in advance!!!!!

 

[Jaded12]

hey any advice i want to breed betta's so badly i have a pair but i can't breed them because, i don't have 2 things,
no live food and no heater, the heaters are way over my budget and live food only come frozen like frozen brine shrimp, can that work if i just crush it up to powder,

Non live food can work but its much harder since the babies hunting instinct drives them to go after anything moving, if you need to feed non moving food put it in right by the sponge filter that way the filter current will cause the food to move around and maybe the babies will go after it thinking its alive. The water really should be at least 76 degrees F though, the colder the water the less likely they are too breed and the longer it will take for the eggs to hatch and for the fry to develop.

my male blows bubbles everday he changes the location of his cup i usually let him move the cup, "Yes" he moves the cup himself, and another thing when the female is in the vase she stares at him and flares but never shows bar lines she is like a dark purple with a little red, when they are in the same tank she stays in one conner and if he comes near she dashes away, when i first got her she was small and slim now her stomach is fat i think with eggs and she has a white spot at her anal,i can't remember why that is there,

How long have they been together? As it sounds as though things are going well, some females just dont get the bars or they do but they're very faint, almost unnoticable. As long as shes not getting beaten up leave them together for a week, if nothing happens after a week pull them apart recondition them and try again.

he is a turquoise super delta in the day time
he is a purple with turquoise in the night why is this,

Their colors will show up differently under different types of light, nothing to worry about, just how it is

Please help i really need the advice and help, some one be my guide to successful breeding.


Thanks in advance!!!!!

Good luck feel free to pm me with any further questions!

 

[livebreeder]

i have setted my pair up once again she started to show 2 bars by her tail he flared she flared then after 7 mins they both ignored each other. and then the bars disappeared.
do i just keep patient.

 

[tidytourniquet]

I don't mean to sound rude but if a heater is over your budget then I would think that breeding bettas is over your budget too. I have never tried to breed them but from the guides I have read they say you will need a lot of containers for all of the male fish and a heater in my mind is a lot cheaper then the tons of jars, tanks or whatever else you will use to keep them in.

 

[livebreeder]

i have 200 containers i have been thinking of breeding them before now and i am saving up for a heater i shal have on within 3 days

 

[blue_betta]

how big is your tank? the bigger the better realy, ive spawned in a 10 litre(aprox 3 gallon) before but you idealy need about 3 times that volume, if not more.
you will need grow out tanks, again the bigger the better.
you can culture live food yourself. micro worm and vinigar eel cultures are not expensive so set up and easy to maintain. ive never used brine shrimp larvae but im told its fiddley. i had reasonable success with one spawn by maintaining a daphnia culture in the tank its self, feeding it on frozen micro plankton, and keeping the tank well planted. weaning them onto frozen cyclops at about 4 weeks was dead easy as they recognised cyclops as food already.

can you get ahold of "betta starter"? its dry food that is specialy formulated for baby betta, i cannot personlay vouch for its use yet, but im told it works wonders and im going to try it out on my next spawn

 

[livebreeder]

well i was planning on spawning them in a US15gallon, they actually don't sell no live food at all, the petshops say that people don't buylive food so they stopped sellling them 4 years ago, i am from the bahamas so those stuff are wierd to others only we have no fish breeders, the only animals bred over her are poultry and dogs thats all.