Spawning Betta splendens



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Spawning Betta splendens

by William E. Shreves, III

Youngstown Aquarist
Youngstown Area Tropical Fish Society  

I had been trying to spawn the Betta off and on for some time with no luck. I tried a couple of different ways and could never get any thing to happen. At our October club meeting JoAnne Toven gave a presentation on how she breeds her bettas. I got excited and went out and got a new male and female betta. I picked a blue male and a blue female because I thought they looked different.

I set up a 10 gallon tank about 3/4 of the way full put a submersible heater in the tank and got the temperature up to 80 degrees. I put a yarn mop in the tank as cover for the female. I used a 2 liter pop bottle with holes I melted in it for water to flow through cut top off to be just above the water line. I taped a styrofoam 20 oz. coffee cup cut in half long ways to the middle of the front of the tank. I placed the female in the pop bottle (had to add a rock in the bottom to keep it from floating). I put the male in the tank. In 2 days the ...

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