Ideal age of breeding female

[Foo Hong]

3 to 5 months in my opinion. At this age, full of eggs and willing to spawn, can even take continual spawnings.

[Chris Yew]

Yes, as the heading applies to female. 3 months for female is a good starting age to spawn especially for those very fertile ones. But spawning it with her siblings always give me a problem. The male may not be too ready yet at 3 months or unable to wrap round the sister, since both are of the same age.

So the best is still to spawn back to the Father. But also sometimes the father may be a bit too big to wrap too as the daughter may slip off the body during the wrapping resulting in no eggs being released.

Frustrating!

Chris Yew
http://bettasonli.netfirms.com

[Foo Hong]

Along with age, I thot it is also worth mentioning about the size of the female. In order to get a very good spawn or better chance of a successful spawn, I noticed that the female shld be abt 20% smaller than the male. Why? Try curling your index finger of one hand around the thumb of yr other hand <img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

[Samuel Phan]

I agree with Chris ...
sometimes the males are simply too young to be spawned despite that they have been building large bubblenest and exceptionally active when seeing a female.

But I think they are still too "Green" for any action.

IMO ... 4 months is a good age for male betta to be used for spawning. Anything younger is difficult.

Agree?

quote:
Yes, as the heading applies to female. 3 months for female is a good starting age to spawn especially for those very fertile ones. But spawning it with her siblings always give me a problem. The male may not be too ready yet at 3 months or unable to wrap round the sister, since both are of the same age.

So the best is still to spawn back to the Father. But also sometimes the father may be a bit too big to wrap too as the daughter may slip off the body during the wrapping resulting in no eggs being released.

Frustrating!

Chris Yew
http://bettasonli.netfirms.com





Samuel Phan **** Chiat
(Creator Of Sam's Betta Colour Rendezvous)

[Foo Hong]

Another aletrnative way to tell is 'she is of the ripe age' is to see if she does drop eggs. When she can do that, she has reached puberty !<img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

[Brandon Chia]

what if the female is already coming to a year, will have problems breeding?? still possible to breed a year old pair?

[Sebas]

possible. :)

[Toh Chen Han]

I spawned young females before (probably btw 3 n 4 months) and comparing those spawns with spawns using fully matured females (those large ones), the difference in size of the eggs and fries is very significant! Those young females produce minute eggs...and I got to strain eyes to find the fries. The big females eggs like pebbles (ok I exagerrate) and the freshly hatched fries equivalent to 4 day old fries from small females.

[Tan Xiao YI]

young male tends to eeat eggs tooi always buy some lousy female those $1 type and spawn with the "virgin" male so it won't eat up the egg when i spawn with good female[|)]

[Morris Gabriel]

quote:Originally posted by Tan Xiao YI

young male tends to eeat eggs tooi always buy some lousy female those $1 type and spawn with the "virgin" male so it won't eat up the egg when i spawn with good female[|)]


jus out of curiosity, when u manage to get a succeful spawn with the $1 female, do u cull the whole batch since the female is poor quality?

[Phil]

FH is correct in his observation about females. That is why I would usually seperate the females from the males at an early age of 1.5 mths. I feed them differently too. Females no TBX only males. If left to nature, have you noticed that females tend to be bigger than males in the same spawn at 2mths?

[Kelvin Tan]

quote:Originally posted by Morris Gabriel

quote:Originally posted by Tan Xiao YI

young male tends to eeat eggs tooi always buy some lousy female those $1 type and spawn with the "virgin" male so it won't eat up the egg when i spawn with good female[|)]


jus out of curiosity, when u manage to get a succeful spawn with the $1 female, do u cull the whole batch since the female is poor quality?


breeder cull everythign even if fries from $100 female is lousy. you like can already dun have to cull if you can handle

[Tan Xiao YI]

i nv let them hatch...most of the time male dose the job cleaning them up...if not i wil noe the male does not eat egg and will feed the egg 2 my tiger barbs :D
what shold i call u ?gabriel or moeeis ?u dare post your wife pics like that wor...(maybe i too conserve liao)anyway your son is CUTE !!~congrat best wishes...u seems 2 miss out on the 7th...=)
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quote:Originally posted by Morris Gabriel

quote:Originally posted by Tan Xiao YI

young male tends to eeat eggs tooi always buy some lousy female those $1 type and spawn with the "virgin" male so it won't eat up the egg when i spawn with good female[|)]


jus out of curiosity, when u manage to get a succeful spawn with the $1 female, do u cull the whole batch since the female is poor quality?

[Morris Gabriel]

quote:Originally posted by Tan Xiao YI


what shold i call u ?gabriel or moeeis ?u dare post your wife pics like that wor...(maybe i too conserve liao)anyway your son is CUTE !!~congrat best wishes...u seems 2 miss out on the 7th...=)


my name is morris. my wife's pic on breastfeeding is ok with both of us. actually its to support and encourage other wouldbe mothers to do breastfeeding as its best for babies, hahahaha, dats what doc says..... thanks!! dont have time to upload new pics...busy changing betta water and diapers, hahahaha!!![bh][ber]

[Tan Xiao YI]

[ag]icic...in that case u wil have to find more time to come to the forum and chit chat ...:)

[Tan Xiao YI]

[ag]icic...in that case u wil have to find more time to come to the forum and chit chat ...:)

[Ong Ginyew]

no pics of bettas leh....lol

[Ong Ginyew]

no pics of bettas leh....lol