How do you properly breed Beta fish?

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Hello,
What I did was got a 10 gallon tank without gravel. Filled it half full. Got a small filter that barely purked. A heater was placed in the tank. Temp should stay around 80 degrees.
After the tank cycled I placed the male in there. I put a brand new oil lamp globe in the center of the tank and put the female inside of it. First time didn't work so I had to change females. If the female is ready then the male will start to blow a bubble nest. I let him blow a good size nest for almost 2 days. Then in the early morning or when you are going to be home, let the female out and watch them carefully for the first couple hours. You will see him flaring and chasing the female which is normal. You will see him wrap his body around the female and squeeze her until she releases her eggs. She will sink for a moment while he rushes down to pick up the eggs before they touch the bottom. He will put them in his mouth and blow them back in the bubble nest. It can take up to 12 hours for them to be done. But you must check on them every couple hours to make sure the male doesn't kill the female. When he chases her away from the nest and doesn't try to lure her back then they are done breeding. Take the female out as soon as this happens. Leave the male in the tank until the eggs hatch into fry that are free swimming (usually takes 2- 4 days) Then you need to remove him. Even if all the fry aren't free swimming you need to do this. The male will get frantic trying to keep up with so many fry and decide to eat some to cut back on work. After the fry are free swimming that means they no longer have a egg sac to feed off of so you will need to have some sort of food to feed them. Such as microworms, baby brine shrimp, or first bites powdered food. During the whole entire time the betta's are blowing the nest and breeding you need to leave the light on in the tank so he can see the eggs or fry falling so he can catch them. If you need more information on this go to www.bettatalk.com. Good Luck!

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Get a patch for them or wait until the 1.0 version comes out.

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The most important thing is starting with healthy fish. It can be difficult to find really healthy fish to start with.

This link has very good accurate advice on preparations for breeding bettas.
http://www.cbsbettas.org/doc/articles/ti...

Since you're investigating breeding, you probably already know such things as the fact that a breeding pair should be introduced before you put them together, and then when you do put them together, they should be put together in a tank with no other fish in it (and , and that two males should NEVER be put together.

Here is a page of links to many resources on Bettas.
http://dmoz.org/recreation/pets/fish_and...

The International Betta Congress members links pages
http://ibcbettas.org/members_sites.htm...
Here at the IBC we keep betta, breed betta, show betta, and most of all, we talk betta to anyone who wants to talk about them.

People who are involved in breeding and showing,etc, are usually very dedicated to their hobby and usually love to help newcomers and other people who ask for help and genuinely want to learn.

This wiki gives good basic details on breeding Bettas.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/how_to_bree...

Another link with information
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/fwsubwebindex...

I personally found it rather difficult to breed Bettas but it was a long time ago when I was trying to breed them,.and there was much less knowledge, equipment, and technology available.

Since then, overall knowledge, technology, and equipment in the aquaculture field has improved drastically. Foods are better formulated, aereation and filtration systems are better, etc.

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they breed by themselves