So you wanna breed bettas? Are you emotionally ready to breed bettas?
Betta breeding is a really rewarding, and amazing process, but it is time consuming.
You have to be fully prepared to take care of many fragile betta fry (fish babies).
Betta fry raising is no easy task. Pristine water conditions are needed for the fry to develop properly. They also need a tiny food source that provides them with the right balance of nutrients to grow. In my opinion fry have better outcomes when feeding some sort of live food to them very young. I feed my fry baby bring shrimp after 1 week of life.
The fish babies are adorable, but again they are super fragile. The slightest disruption in their tank can cause catastrophe.
Fry survive best in warm waters with some aeration in their tank. I usually keep my fry tanks at 80 degrees. 80.2 to be exact. I haven’t studied if this is the optimum temperature, but it’s worked for me.
Fry grow when water is clean. However water changes can get tricky. It’s a balance. You really only want to put water in your fry tank that is basically identical to the conditions in your tank. You can do this by filling up buckets with water and your water conditioner and letting it age for a couple of days. I usually put an air pump in this bucket so that I am pumping air into this water for the tiny fry. It’s no easy feat to clean a fry tank especially when the babies are newborns.