Betta Breeding

[memnon]

my male and female bred yesterday
and i was just wondering if anyone knows how long it takes for the eggs to hatch

thanks

 

[starrynightxxi]

oh dear, you have quite a lot of research to do. I suggest first checking out the pinned topics in this forum, and then i suggest seperating your male and female. it's generally very bad practice to keep them together, as well as to breed lfs stock.

but since it's been done, remove the female so the male doesn't kill her. I don't know how long the eggs take exactly, i think maybe 48-72 hours/ someone who's bred bttas before will tell you better, but you won't be able to feed the babies flake, they need live food (baby brine shrimp). They also need to be in a heated tank and you will need enough room for them to growout to the boisterous juvies they ar going to be, and then you will have to seperate out all the males, and maybe some females. Bettas are not platies. They all pretty much hate one another.

To be honest, if this is a community tank you will be very lucky to have any fry survive. You will be lucky to have any survive regardless as baby bettas are very delicate.

[edit] forgive me if this sounds preachy at all, or you already know all that. we have a lot of folk come in who don't realize how much work is involved with bettas. as babies they are virtually incapable of dealing with anything but prime conditions and asking how long the eggs take to hatch sounds to me like you did not research it first.

 

[Commander Cool]

I'd suggest reading the breeding topic that is stickied.

 

[willtang3000]

remove female after breeding if in community tank they will not survive so next time try breed in a diffeent tank but if you wish to rear the fry once they start to free swim get them with a turkey baster into a different tank

 

[bUcky]

its usually takes 36 hours for mine. but sometimes longer sometimes shorter. Mostly depends on the temperature.