biziboy Posted May 26, 2001 Report Share Posted May 26, 2001 I am breeding siamese fighters and interested in exchaging ideas and fish [ This message was edited by: biziboy on 2001-06-03 07:12 ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cees Posted May 26, 2001 Report Share Posted May 26, 2001 Hello biziboy, welcome to the 'New Zealand Fishroom'. It's good to see that someone is breeding betta splendens and willing to exchange ideas in these forums. I haven't bred betta splendens myself yet but I'm always interested in other peoples efforts. Perhaps you could tell me (us) a bit more about your own betta splendens breeding experiences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biziboy Posted May 27, 2001 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2001 This is the first time I have bred fish of any type. The father is a blue single tail and the mother is a blue double tail. The fry are now about a month old, about 90% of them have horizontal stripes and the other 10% are the pinkish cambodian colour. Does anyone know how long these fish take to develop their full colour? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted May 27, 2001 Report Share Posted May 27, 2001 Siamese fighters start to colour up at around 12 weeks. This is also the stage they need to be sexed and moved to larger tanks to grow on. Good luck with your fry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biziboy Posted July 8, 2001 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2001 My fry have now made it to the stage when they need to be seperated. Most of them did colour up nicley, but interestingly I have ended up with about 50% blues and 50% cambodians with no double tails. There are some that are obviously males but I am having trouble sexing the rest of them. does anyone have any tips for sexing fry at this age? (12 weeks) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted July 9, 2001 Report Share Posted July 9, 2001 It is at this stage that the fry are most prone to disease etc. Keep the top of the tank well covered and free from draughts as the fry start to use their labyrinth organs at 12 weeks. An additional sponge filter (or corner filter with a gap for the fry to escape from)will help keep the tank clean too. Boys are blue and girls are pink Actually, males are more colourful and their fins grow faster. They are also more aggressive as it is only the males who fight. Once you remove the ones you are sure are males, the other lesser males should become 'top dog' and colour up more and start being more aggressive so be easier to sex. Unless you have a pure line (highly unlikely unless you have bred it yourself over several generations), your colours will be mixed. Get a book on the subject of breeding bettas and it will tell you about the genetics. [ This Message was edited by: Caryl on 2001-07-09 17:14 ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biziboy Posted July 9, 2001 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2001 Thanks I'll try that, can you recomend a good book that covers betta genetics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted July 10, 2001 Report Share Posted July 10, 2001 I think any book which specialises in breeding bettas will have the genetic information. Try the library. The 2 books I looked up are very old. One was Siamese Fighting Fish by Dr Myron Gordon (a geneticist at New York Zoological Society)and produced by TFH Pblications. The other book had the same title and was by the same author plus Dr Herbert Axelrod (also a TFH publication). I haven't looked at them in detail but suspect the genetics information is probably the same in both books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzy Posted January 29, 2002 Report Share Posted January 29, 2002 hi biziboy.. I am interested in breeding them also. How did you get them to spawn in the first place? did you have a planted tank? did you just have one male and one female in the tank at the time?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted May 28, 2002 Report Share Posted May 28, 2002 biziboy Having recently purchased my first, I had a poke around the net the other day and came across this site: http://www.bettacave.com/ You'll note he has a section detailing "Genetics" as well and it shows in a tabular format the sorts of results to expect. This guy's been doing it for years, so he should be respected to some degree for his info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biziboy Posted July 22, 2002 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2002 Hi everyone its been a long time since I checked out this site. I have now bred a few genarations of fighters and then gone away from it. I am about to start again with some nice green ones I got from Peter Macleod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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