Whats BBs?
I have tetra variety flakes which has a section for breeding and things like that.
BBS = Baby Brine Shrimp. Honestly do research, they come out very very tiny, so tiny the first day I could barly see them. I used java moss to supplement them for there first food is why I recommend it. Also used liquidfry a liquid food supplement to them, I also forced them on to BBS probably as soon as I could. Breeding them is not for the novice breeder at all but with some failed attemps always come success and this is what you learn on more known as experience. Just remember just because I looked like I was lucky the first time I would say was not luck at all I baught the fish for 1 purpose only was to breed them! My breeding experience is well over 10 years and wife well over 5 years doing bettas so that alone will give you alot of background cause bettas are way harder to do, simply because when they sexually maute they have to move to individual cups like NOW! For approx the first week they won't eat anything you put in the tank you are better off not putting anything in the tank for the first week just have a peice of java in the tank so they can feed off the micro food off of it
(Known as artinia I think)
After 1 week I feed liquifry and start with bbs right away to promote them to go for it instead. then slowly work in other solutions like egg yolk and weind off of the liquifry to see what best suits them then I stick to what works the best. Getting the parents to do there magic is no work at all really with a little bit of patience but raising the fry is a whole different experience. But really think about it I reco using a new tank setup for them, cycle a tank seperate Lightly planted I used just java moss and have the water lvl at about half full or empty how every you look at your cup
. cycle your tank this way with gravel cause you need something for the java moss to stick to your your palnts hehe. Bare bottom is actually better for them easier for them to find the eggs, that goes for all bubble nest builders! Make sure you have melafix on hand as you tend the babies and they get stressed use what is reco for 3 days followed by a water change. Also look at doing smaller water changes everyday with them when babies compared to large water chages everyday and use a drip system method for filing the tank up should take you atleast a day to fill the tank using a drip method. ~ Tie a knot in airline hose ~ They can stress very easy when that tiny and die very quickly with out you actually knowing what happened. (only add the melafix if you where in the tank and they are floating on the top looking like they are looking for air its a sign they are stressed)
Part of my update so far I have recently moved them to a grow out tank and boom bad news the tank has a tiny leak. LoL I think I just need new fish tanks lmao, well resealed the old one and it held water for 1 day straight and had a time of 1 day to cure thats good enough for me. All the fish have been moved over. The rather very large ones are bigger than the tetris I have gotten for our community tank so I put the big ones in my daughters 40gal to grow out! 2 total where freakin huge the size of a dimn
What that means to a breeder those would be very good stock ^^ you don't usually see those ones for sale anyways lol. all the others are about the same size about half the size of a dimn so they remain in there so they can actually eat a good meal without being disturbed from the bigger ones. I know i have said pics are coming you just all need to be patient its taken alot of time for me to do alot of this. Pics are coming thow. When transfering to the new tank alot looked very stressed so I have added some melafix something I actually swear by with water conditioner alot of them are just sitting on the top although they did eat and thats a good sign. The need there rest so I have decided not to take photos of them right now. The 2 that are now in the main tank are doing very well and actually eating frozen brine shrimp woot in no time they will be showing there colours! As for the smaller guys they will actually get a meal now and that is good need them to catch up to the others but I have patients for them.
Miah002 here is a story for you dont' want to scare you but just want you to be aware of the unknown!
The story that kinda scared me and the wife when we did bettas!
I was thinking of doing a post that might get pinned for food choices for gourmis and pecific to them. From breeding to properly getting them ready for really good fry. My taughest experience was with bettas when we had a hatch of over 600 eggs, and we where not ready for it at all well not that many! little tip 1/2 of them died I had 3 20 gal tanks running and all where mature, only problem was I couldn't stay up to there food needs and water changes especially after individually sexing them all which took forever. Out of that batch I ended up with aprox 300 total 120 where males and the rest where females I had to invest in a 55gal grow out tank for them which is now my main planted show peice in my living room! I got lucky on that one not only where there more females that I could just house together, but I had over 100 damn cups of males in my house at the time water changes where a pain in the #### every night I come home and 50% water change to each one took me over 1hour to do everynight. Water change always included a feeding and they where feed in the morning before I went to work! Took about 30mins total to feed and make sure everything was going okay! Since then I am smart and decided since I am not ready for bettas its better to not breed them at all. Funny part was we where educated and doing it for well over 3 years at that time just never expected a complete scare like that, It was hard to believe so many eggs came from 2 females, yes 2 females we used to let the one spawn and take her out put another one in right away. We could have been even worse off if the both decided that day they wanted to lay 500 ea!<its the same method used in gourmis breedig with more than one mate all thow more successfull in goumis doing it then bettas who would have ever thaught I would have actually worked out in the end ><
Dont want to scare you but it gives you a look at what is possible and they are recomended to breed with 2 females
means 1200 eggs are possible, usually 600 per female is estimated at max.
Just so you know I baught a BBS Hatchery, did the DIY method and had good success with it but prefer the hatchery over any other method!
Its always happens when i turn the lid over for some reason. But any platic lid will due pretty much just go for something big enough they can hide under. I always use java moss and recomend it in a breeding tank so wouldn't hurt to have the moss in there to help they like to rip plants up to build there nests the lid just gives them a spot and kinda promotes a controled area in the tank. 
