My male betta with babies!

[yeeviabetta]

I told you guys before to put your male betta with his babies until 10 days.

 

[yeeviabetta]

This is seven days since babies hatching. He loves baby sitting. LOL

 

[yeeviabetta]

Ohhh. the male is a fancy red gold mask halfmoon. Well, his tails been bite off by that cranky red halfmoon females. WHO WANT THAT FEMALE? LOL SHE IS STILL VIRGIN AND IMPORT FROM THAILAND. SHE GOT BIG BELLY FULL OF EGGS!!!!! But she is a paranah.

DID you see the babies swimming?

 

[yeeviabetta]

here are my first and second experiment batch of breeding. Testing mah! See I am good or not in breeding.

 

[yeeviabetta]

Same father but different mother.

 

[yeeviabetta]

Close up.

 

[yeeviabetta]

This one is taken. He is a beautiful 4 rays crowntail halfmoon mixed. MG with turquoise! He will be going home and stay in a 5 gallon tank soon.
Very beautiful red and wide tail!

 

[yeeviabetta]

Any baby fish for me to eat yet? You promised since you bought me home in february!!!

 

[f250fisherman]

Once again..I feel a need to ask...why is the male still in the nest?? What purpose does it fill. I'm also wondering just how many fry have been eaten in the process. I wonder how the alpha males are doing, or are they even there any more?

 

[yeeviabetta]

Good questions. Great you ask! Now I am going to explain very carefully. You like it or not, it is up to everyone decision.Hehehe I finally make this decision after I have four males been through like this, and many big healthy babies. Here I would like to share this to everyone.
Firstly, do you know babies need immune system for their bodies to defence? Just like a baby need their real mother's milk and not power milk. This is the way betta father can feed his babies with his mucus (saliva). This is how in the wild the babies are broad up and become strong and reproduce again. I have seen my male bettas doing this in all 10 days.
I can see the male is teaching the babies not sitting at the bottom of the tank too. He keep diving to the bottom, gulping the babies and then release out the babies on the water surface. He even making the babies swim up to the surface of the water. I realized mostly the babies are on the top and middle tank now.
Now I am talking about the reproduce. I am pretty up-set because I bought quite a numbers of bettas and they don't know how to breed right or totally don't know how to breed at all! I think some of you have the same problems. I have more than 2 dozens males and females (30 counted) import from thailand or from USA thats don't know how to breed. Why? Think about the raising by human Salmon fish. They don't know how to reproduction even the ocean turtle that raise by human. They can't even survive back into the ocean. In my opinion, they took the male out too fast.
As for how many babies been eaten? In my opinion, I see many (too many) big babies swimming healthy everytime. My last batch, I got 250 more babies from my red halfmoon. I took out the father in 10 days. He is the first time breeding too.
One last thing to add in my final thought from my observation. The father seems happier after taken him out. When you put next to another female, he flare like crazy and wants to mate! Not like taken out the father after 2 days babies hatching. They look so sad and depress like want to dead. It is up to you now members.
If you want to tried my method, you have to trust your male betta. You can using a petmart female and breed to do the experiment and see for yourself.

 

[f250fisherman]

Firstly, do you know babies need immune system for their bodies to defence? Just like a baby need their real mother's milk and not power milk. This is the way betta father can feed his babies with his mucus (saliva).

ok. If this is true, I'm glad I learned it. Could you direct me to this research that you used to come to this conclusion? I would like very much to read about it myself, so I could learn more about this. Thanks for any help.

 

[Sandusky]

Wow man, lighten up, if he wants to breed that way he can.

And the similie to the mothers milk is kinda a duh, so putting two and two together one would come to the conclusion that it applies to the fathers saliva since he does carry them to the watres surface via his mouth. Keeps the babies moving and swimming, and from a guess, protects them (saliva kills off bacteria, why else would they use it for their bubble nests?).

 

[coconutman39]

i have always wanted to try this. i think im going to try to do this with my first pair, a steelHMX pair. he looks gentle. thanks for the great pics.

have you ever left the father in the whole time?

 

[yeeviabetta]

I do fed the male and the babies everyday. I took the male out after 10 days and never put them together until they growth up. The tank getting a little bid dirty so I moved all the babies to another tank. It should be enough time since the babies is big enough to learned how to eat brine shrimp and food.
Here are some I can found the website something to read about. I can't find the one that I read is about the experiment letting the male takingcare of the babies. I will post it when I found it next time. Below is a great article but they took the babies out after the babies is free swimming.
OK. I got to do my house cleaning. Just took some picture of the double tail babies.
http/canis.tamu.edu/wfscCourses/examples/betaritt.html
http/midwestbettaclub.com/articles/page.asp?articleid=3166

 

[cation]

Here's a link to my experience leaving Dad in, and the conversation that ensued. Interesting reading, if you want some more perspectives on the idea.