The subject popped up in the Molly thread, and Frank made a good post about a local lady's way of breeding. There's at least a few of us here that have bred them, so I thought it would be good for us to chime in with our own little ways of doing it. ; ) Breeding them is the easy part. I've used 2 1/2 gal (normal -rectangle shape), 5 1/2 gal and 10 gal tanks. I used 20H gal tanks for growing out females, and males in quart canning jars, mayo jars, large pickle jars, deli jars (not now though). I did it the old fashioned way. Cleaning out jars every other day - to daily on smaller ones. When I steered strictly back to angels those Betta Barracks and similar type set ups started popping up. I was able to keep juvie males in individual containers easily because I would only allow myself to have one spawn of bettas at a time. I had angels and other fish too, so physical space was an issue. If you have an entire room, basement, etc devoted to your breeding program then it becomes a different ball game. If you are going to be a mass breeder, then you need a system geared towards that. If you are going to have a betta spawn every now and then because you have fabulous stock....you don't need a system geared towards housing thousands of fish. I love these ingenious systems folks come up with. They deliver fresh- clean-warm water constantly. Being that I always kept things on a very small scale....I prefer larger housing for males than what many of these systems provide. It's my own personal choice...not saying they're bad. So if I were to make something like it, the individual cells would have to be big enough to make my head happy. Having a system that provides fresh, clean water to all those bettas without having to clean each one by hand.....That would be the way to go. All ya have to decide on is how large of a system to make. = )
