Betta splendens
Siamese fighting fish
I started collecting fishes when I was around 13 year old. My cousins introduced me to the world of aquarium fishes and I got hooked.
We'd save our allowances and buy fish at various locations in town. I made a concrete fish ponds to hold my guppies and swordtails of various breeds.
I made a DIY acquarium to keeo my angelfish, mollies, tiger barbs, and ramshorn snails. I also collect Elodea, Sagittaria subulata, Camboba, and other aquatic plants.
My cousins started buying bettas and I also did, so I took empty wine bottles and put one betta per bottle. This kind of fishes are territorial and should be kept away from other fishes too.
Breeding bettas is easy, some other guides just make it complex. Here's some basic guide:
- Select a mature and healthy male and female bettas
- Prepare the breeding tank
- Put in the male first
- Test their comatibility
- The male will make bubble nests
- Put the female
- The male will show off
- The female will check the nest
- They might chase and bite, before doing the mating dance
- The male will embrace the female (he's not squeezing her)
- The female will rest once in a while (don't worry)
- Leave for a night, then carefully take the female away
- The male will take care of the little ones, often csrrying those who falls back to the bubble
- Once they can swim on their own, remove the male betta
- Feed with tiny foods
- All the time, regulate the environment
That's the simplest way to breed bettas. They need privacy too, but keeo an eye if they both get aggressive and isn't successfully mating.
Sometimes, I don't know why my old self went to places like this one—alone.
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