I want to get into breeding bettas, but am still learning what I need to know. I have several (22) adult bettas already, but I am unsure which might be worth breeding. I am not interesting is showing bettas myself, but would like the ones I offer to be of a quality where other breeds and those that do show bettas might be interested. Would you please give me your opinion on breeding with the bettas I have now. If I need to all of these will stay pets, or possible find other home, and I will buy a breeding pair to start with. I have not figured out how to get my text my the picture I am referring too, so the descriptions and notes here are in order of the pictures below.
Now onto my current ladies. I don’t have many of them yet, but here’s who we do have.
If I can get pictures of my missing boys I will post them later. Thank you for taking the time to read this post and offer any feedback you might have. If I can find out who I have that can be breed I can find out what I need to find as well.
- This is not a picture I took; I adopted this handsome guy, Patrick, from MoonShadow. He’s been part of my family since yesterday and while he’s getting used to his surrounding it upsets him whenever I get too close to try and get a picture.
- Mani here does not like to flare. There’s a few of my boys that is very hard to capture while flaring. I was told before that it would probably be best not to breed Mani because his body is to short and could lead to spinal problems.
- My other DT is Ra. Not sure on his good or bad points, but I’d love to be able to find a pretty lady betta to be able to breed him with.
- Thor here is my only HM. I love these tail types. If I had to narrow it down I think I would like to work with HMs and VTs. It’s difficult to see all his coloring in this pic, but I was thinking of breeding him with a nice MG girl if I could find one.
- This is Pan, aka Pandora. He was bought as a female and spent some time in my sorority, now he rules a 10 gallon tank. His body length is 2.5” and I was told that mean he’s at least half giant. If that is accurate and both Pan & the 2nd lady (who is female) that I bought are breedable I might start with this pair.
- Now it’s on to my VTs. The first here is my daughter’s boy, Darling. As with a lot of pictures this does absolutely nothing to show all his wonderful color, but it’s the only one I have of him flaring. I don’t know if personalities breed into fish like they can cat & dogs, but if they do this is one sweet boy, probably one of our most passive males.
- Luv here is another one of my daughter’s boys. We’ve had him the longest of all our bettas. I did do 1 spawning before finding this site and knowing everything I needed to know about genetics and all that. I have 20 fry month old fry, and Luv is the daddy.
- This is actually the only VT male I own, Mr. Fish. He’s the one that started my bettas craziness and the one that got me into wanting to breed them. Not much more to say about him. I don’t know if he has any good points for breeding or anything that would make it better not to breed him.
- I don’t know if this picture of Prometheus (orange VT) is good enough to judge him by or not. Prometheus and Ra can’t get enough of each other. If they see the smallest crack between their tanks where they can see into the other tank they are glued there flaring at each other. Prometheus is my daughters newest betta. (These are not all my boys, but the only one I have decent pictures of so far)
Now onto my current ladies. I don’t have many of them yet, but here’s who we do have.
- First is Amor. Amor is a pretty, dark purple VT (I’ve never seen red or blue, just a deep purple) and mother to the fry I have
- This lady is still currently nameless. I’ve had her a couple weeks, so I need to get busy and find her a name. This is the female I would breed with Pan from above. Her body is just slightly shorter than his.
- One of my newest additons (in fact the only 1 of 4 females I brought home that wasn’t sick) She hasn’t shown her colors yet, but if she even glimpses a male she will start displaying egg bands. Her name is Brigid.
- Not a very good picture of my sweet Freya at all, she got beat up a bit in the sorority and is very shy, so it’s hard to get her in a pic. Normally she doesn’t appear purple. She’s iridescent, but most often shows a teal color. Sometimes blue, sometimes green, and as seen here occasionally purple. Now that she’s out of the sorority she’s healing up nicely.
- This green CT girl is another one of the last females I picked up and being treated for Velvet atm
- Hestia didn’t seem sick at all when I brought her home, but within a couple days she was laying around with her fins clamped tight. I’m treating her for a very mild case of Velvet as well. She might work well with Patrick.
- This little red VT is Lofin. She was a tiny things when I brought her home but is now almost as big as Amor and she thinks she rules the roost. I love her bright red color and was playing with the idea of breeding her with either Mr. Fish or possible Patrick.
- Not a very good picture at all, but this is Sol. I thought she might make some pretty VT babies with Prometheus.
If I can get pictures of my missing boys I will post them later. Thank you for taking the time to read this post and offer any feedback you might have. If I can find out who I have that can be breed I can find out what I need to find as well.