Your first time breeding betta and what kind.

[yeeviabetta]

Sometimes I wonder all of you who did breed betta, how is your first time breeding betta without experience in breeding? How many you end up? Did all dead or all survive or how many? What kind of betta are they too?
Do post your 1st spawn experiences only and even if there is failures occurs. This could help some people to understand what it is like and how frustrating it can be to raise them, but it will also fills your heart with joy when you suceed. I think this statistic well help for the future of newbies too what they going to expect and think twice.
So here I am going to start mine. I got a ( dying freebie male been torn apart tail so badly) halfmoon turquoise male and with a copper halfmoon female(4 rays only got fool by a breeder telling me it is a halfmoon). I got more than 500 in the beginning hatching but end up 3 become adults. It is a long journey with high hope and with depressing sad. At that time, I am not in any betta forums at all and I was just at flowerhorn forum that are totally different in breeding. I have no help at all if I got it wrong and only email from the breeders. I have to think quick and figure out myself. I did read and read mostly everyone betta web that I can find in internet. Get books about betta. Talk to breeders and getting more informations but everyone have different opinions and it gives me too over whelming. So i tried it out with my bettas the first time pair and then so happy to see all the babies survive. But seeing the babies dying, just don't know what to do and trying to do my best what is it going on since I have read so many people web about betta breeding. Digging out in a hell of breeding tank and only left 8 babies that were half an half dying. I quickly get aged water into a new tank, but the babies still one by one dying inside the new tank. I thought all dead at the end but light did give me back my happiness. There is still 3 babies survived. Follow too many breeders idea and they don't work for me right either. Therefore, although I read what they said about breeding, I kind of fail and what did I do wrong here. In most of breeders web, they said be prepare if all the frys not going to make it and always gamble because I don't have experience. I realized finally I fed more food with all kinds to the babies than what they needed perday. So from that onward, I used hard boil egg yolk only in the first seven days. Sometimes I use it if the BS didn't got in time. Still I have golden pearls standing by especially for the babies in a month old. That is my stories.

 

[steppy104]

crowntails. a cambodian female and a blue/white butterfly male.

all died

 

[Texaswoman]

Well, I tried several times before a got a pair to spawn. I took almost 3 months time to condition, re-condition, and trying a few different pairs. My first spawn was small, around 60 hatched out. I had 30 make it to adults, and they are all female So, they are pretty though, but I had trouble with their growth rate. This went very slowly I think because of my experience and I didn't feed enough in the beginning or do enough water changes. I've had many other spawns though since then when I was like Yeevia, had to watch my babies die off without a clue to why, or how to fix, even with all of the resources out there. I've also had alot more successful spawns too, but I think it is always unpredictable to what can happen.

 

[Texaswoman]

Oops. Forgot to mention what I bred. I tried with a Thai Flag CT pair, Blue marble BF HM pair, and I finally won with my Red/Gold Bi-color HM male and female pair. All of the babies have gold cambo body with gold fins and red on fins. Some have solid bi-color, and others are somewhat marbled.

 

[Bettaman]

First spawn was in 1972..veiltails red male and female as thats all there was at that time, 183 babies survived and all grew to adults..

 

[yeeviabetta]

Wou. Look at the poll. At least we got an idea of the first statistic outcome in everyone who had first breeding in betta. I do like to know who is the one who got 500 over becoming adult in the first time. Would you mind to post who are you and telling us about this? We can give you a trophy for breeding so successfully in the first time.
Don't forget to keep posting if you haven't. We need this poll as accurate as possible. Thanks.

 

[yeeviabetta]

Bump.

 

[The_Gilly]

I've got about twenty of my first lot left

Loads of things I intend doing differently next time.

Parents are red crown tails

If you're thinking of breeding take into account the amount of work you'll have to put in. Not to mention the amount of tank water you'll drink when starting the sypthon on the fry tank

 

[Joby]

I have 22 out of my spawn and although not yet at adulthood, they're 8 weeks old, I only visibly lost 4 of them. I have to say though that 3 of them have deformities so can't be sold on or used to breed again etc.

I think I have roughly half of each sex

Pet shop crowntails pink/lilac and pink/orange were the parents

This wasn't a planned spawning so the tank set up was all wrong and they weren't conditioned so would definitely do things differently when I next plan one

LOL The_Gilly at your syphon incident try using a turkey baster to start it off next time

 

[yeeviabetta]

Who else haven't post yet? I bump it up to the top.

 

[slamster17]

null vote, i currently have about 30 betta imbellis chillin and eating bbs.