Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Betta Fish Breeding

Betta: Your Happy Healthy PetBetta fish enthusiasts increasingly are many, both among children from childhood to adulthood. Because the fish is beautiful and also even more when the fish is ready to fight. Vibrant colours from male fish are exposed. This fish is also often called the fighting fish and the latin name is Betta splendens. It is a member from the Anabantidae (Labirynth Fisher). Betta fish tails and fins when it expands really captivate the lovers of ornamental fish. The color of the fish commonly known as beta fish is really interesting, and for the cultivation of these animals also do not require a vast place, so it can be done at home.

To breed betta fish, we just need a few things. First of all we need a pair of betta fish (a male and a female brood), a clean aquarium with proper water quality (temperature, dissolved oxygen and lighting), and also substrate for betta fish to lay their eggs. You may prepare artemia eggs to feed their larvae (baby fishes) once they are hatched from the eggs.




Description of Male Betta fish ready to mate are:

■ ± 4 months of age.
■ body shape and fins long and beautifully colored.
■ aggressive and agile movements.
■ healthy body condition (not disease).

The characteristics of female fish ready to breed are:

■ Age has reached ± 4 months
■ denotes rounded body shape ready to mate.
■ Movement is slow.
■ fin is short and the color is not appealing.
■ healthy body condition.

Steps for spawning and fish care

1.Prepare aquarium/ container with clean water. Add thermostate, temperature regulator if needed
2.Fill container with clean water with a height of 15-30 cm.
3.Put the male betta fish in advance, 1 day before mating
4.Put the female the day after the male
5. Quickly move Broods, and keep the eggs in separate place.
6. Watch out for fungal pathogens that could attack eggs.. put some Methylene Blue in the aquarium containing eggs

Thank you for reading!

How To Breed Tetra Fish

 TETRA is quite beautiful ornamental fresh water aquarium fish. Various kinds of ornamental fish tetra is known, just to name some of them, we know Tetra Green, Blue Tetra, Silver Tetra, Neon Tetra and many others. In my country, lots of people successfully breed aquarium fish and In this blog post I present the technique how to breed Neon Tetra (Hyphessobryconnesi) which the information was taken from discussion with ornamental fish farmers.

Breeding Tetra Fish

Breed this fish species is still quite difficult if you don't know and requires perseverance and a long experience, but generally, in order to have a successful breeding condition you must need several condition :
  • Water should be sterile and acidic (pH less than 6.4)
  • Breeding must be done in dark place.
  • Temperature around 20 ° C

The most important, is to select fish to breed, the problem comes if you do not know how to differentiate/ distinguish between male and female neon tetras. Here is how to doffer them:

* Males: body lines straight on the type of neon tetra, a little long.
* Females: Short Round and abdominal bloating, body line on the neon tetra is rather crooked.

Now this is how to breed them:

1. Separate female and male neon tetra.
2. Store rainwater and keep it for + 2 weeks.
3. Wash aquarium for spawning.
4. Fill aquarium with rainwater
5. Add same kayu asam water soaked.
6. 2 ~ 3 days left in place.
7. Enter the crop or foliage to lay eggs the neon tetra.
8. Enter tetra parent who has been separated first.
9. Cover the hole and give the place a little light in order to be able to see the movements of the fish.
10. If you see a male and a female one another romp, then + 3 days later the eggs are seen attached to the leaves or roots that have been provided.
11. Move the mother and covered with black cloth until no light inside.
12. During the 3 days + neon tetra eggs are hatched.
13. Children of these fish can be fed infusoria the bacterial decay on cabbage leaf / cabbage canker drop by drop. You can buy it at stores selling ornamental fish and ornamental fish place.
14. + After 2-3 weeks of the closing was allowed to reopen.
15. Then the children will look tetra fish.

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