My First Betta Breed

Hi Everybody

I'm new to betta breeding and I think it's amazing how this fish go about breeding.

After all the trail and errors I manage to get my first pair to breed.Now I'm just waiting for the eggs to hatch.Hold thumbs that I get a good result.

Here is some pics of the Bettas I used.

Njoy

The Male

The Female(couldn't get a nice picture taken)

 

Congratulations and good luck. What colour is the female?

 

A very dark blue.Almost black.

 

My second male just build a huge bubble nest.
This male I got from Charles

I just can't get a pic of the female.

 

Thank You

Yes it is.Now is the wait to see how many fry survive.I will post a pic as soon as they hatch.

 

Congratulations, now the challenge comes being a father.

 

My first suprise came in the first of January bought a pair in late December, female jumped out of her holding bay and during the early hours of that morning they had spawned no cooking clue what to do, but I managed using the forum for information and speaking to members for advice, now I am sitting with a new face-lift of imported bettas.

 

@keith1964

Thank you.Hopefully everything goes to plan.

 

Congrats @johanbosman now you are hooked for life, have fun raising them!

 

@HennieRoux

Thank you.I think so to.

Just want to find out how you can determine if a male or female is to old to breed if you didn't have them from when they fry?

 

Thats is a tough thing to dtermine...esspecially if you bought him from a petshop, so peredicting age is almost impossible, but mostly the male will not show any breeding signs, like flairing @ the female chasing her or building a nest. Sometimes they will actually spawn, but will be unfertile, so the eggs will not hatch, that is why if possible always buy from a breeder that can tell you the age and back ground of the fish, esspecially if you want to breed him or her.

 

@HennieRoux

Thank you.I think so too.


I just want to know if there is any way you can determine if a male or female is too old to breed if you did't have them from fry?

 

Sorry double post

 

@HennieRoux

Oh ok so you basically have to wait and see.Trial and error basis.Hopefully I will get to know the betta breeders around pretoria.

 

@Chaerles is the man in your area, if yoy lucky he might even sell you a true halfmoon

 

@Charles

Luckily I already met him and saw his setup.Nice

 

Thanks @johanbosman for the nice comment about my setup. I am always trying to improve in different areas of keeping my betta's.

Thanks @HennieRoux for the mention.

 

Sad to say my male nipped all the fry before they was able to free swim

 

After a long waited re condition I'm going at it again. My male build a nice big bubble nest and will be introducing the female later today and let’s see what happens.