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To breed bettas you cannot have current. The current will only destroy the bubble nest and disperse the fry if your bettas make it to breeding stage. If there's a lot of current the bettas won't breed cause they sense that it is not a good breeding place.

Also you must consider that the female needs hiding places such as bogwood and plants.

In my opinion your best bet would be to set up a small aquarium for their breeding. I would not attempt breeding in a tank with other fish.

However you must consider the following:

Age of both female and male bettas:

- A young female first time spawning = smaller amount of fry (10-50)

- A young female which has already spawned before = smaller amount of fry but with an increase in egg production and breeding experience therefore (10-100)

- A young male betta with lack of experience = will affect the three day period from egg laying to hatching insofar as he would be liable to either to partially eat the eggs, or the fry when they hatch.

Also fry numbers are effected from the quality of the water, how well the tank is heated and what temperature is provided. What food would have been fed to the bettas prior to the spawning attempt (you need at least to start feeding nutritious live food combined with granules a month before to induce spawning).

Then again...it's up to mother nature. Some betta breeders have indeed recorded from pairs of mature bettas in their Thai breeding farms, spawns of up to a 1000 fry. I know it might sound exagerated however if you look it up, you'll find out for yourself

Ask if you need more information, I'm always glad to give my little bit of input.

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@jamezy - Like Malti has said bettas normal spawn size would be somewhere between the 100 - 300 tiny betta fry.

However you must consider the following:

Age of both female and male bettas:

- A young female first time spawning = smaller amount of fry (10-50)

- A young female which has already spawned before = smaller amount of fry but with an increase in egg production and breeding experience therefore (10-100)

- A young male betta with lack of experience = will affect the three day period from egg laying to hatching insofar as he would be liable to either to partially eat the eggs, or the fry when they hatch.

Also fry numbers are effected from the quality of the water, how well the tank is heated and what temperature is provided. What food would have been fed to the bettas prior to the spawning attempt (you need at least to start feeding nutritious live food combined with granules a month before to induce spawning).

Then again...it's up to mother nature. Some betta breeders have indeed recorded from pairs of mature bettas in their Thai breeding farms, spawns of up to a 1000 fry. I know it might sound exagerated however if you look it up, you'll find out for yourself

Ask if you need more information, I'm always glad to give my little bit of input.

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my record is 258 that reached adulthood...

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my record is 258 that reached adulthood...

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Thats still a huge spawn Malti. Well done for that record especially since you managed to rear them to adulthood.

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what did you do with them?

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