Betta breeding

[kribkid17]

Awhile ago I tried my hand at betta breeding.
Heres the female-

After I fed the male good and this is what i got-

I put the female with the male and after some birds and the bees stuff I found this

After a day or two, I found this

(If you look hard you can see little tails.)

I kinda didn't take the fry out when i was supposed to and the dad got hungry so i was left with about 50 of these guys.

more to come...

[sskruzr]

GREAT JOB!

[Jackielee]

Great, have fun with them. 50 would be a lot still to try to raise. Good luck. Jack

[Chard56]

If you end up with the majority of the fifty at the end of 3 months you're doing good. The first few spawns are the hardest. Then you can work your way up to a few hundred.

[kribkid17]

A month or two has passed since those pictures and now I only have one fry left.

[Chard56]

If you learned anything from the experience to use the next time then you will get better at it.

[kribkid17]

So my betta is starting to look more and more like an adult. How can I tell if it's a male or female? And the color pattern must of been a recessive gene because it's a baby blue with a sloppy butterfly white outline.

[mewickham]

Females have an ovipositor, which is a little white dot near the vent. I don't know the age at which it develops, however. but if there is no ovipositor, it could be a short-finned male.