anyone have fish breeding experience???

Hi. For breeding bettas you have to do like this: set up a small tank 3-4 gallons, not togh, cause the male pics up the egss that fall on the bottom, and he gets tired to get them up every time) put the water, a heater...set the temperature arround 28 celsius degrees, if you can get an almond leaf would be great, and you can put a plant...a fake one. Nothing on the bottom of the tank, like sand or anything else. put the male first. let him to accomodate a day or to. he will probably already start to build his bubble nest. to help him, you can put something that floats on the water, so he can build the nest under it. put the female into a transparent glass, or something large ehaugh so you can put it into the tank, so the male can see her, but can't touch it. so, if she's not ready, he can't beat her. this helps the male to finish the nest faster also. when the female is ready, you can see white lines on her body, and she tend to get closer to the male. it's time to realise her. for a few hours the male will keep chasing her, so you soulh watch them, so you can get her out if he starts to beat her. he will be rough though. it's pretty amazeing to watch them, specially when they start tha "mateing dance", it's awsome. this could go for a few hours. After that, get the female out, or he will kill her. if the male is a good parent and watch properly for the eggs, in a couple of days you should see the babys. they grow up very fast. in the first days, you can feed them with egg yolk. just watch the feeding, you don't whant to put to much food, cause the water would alterate. when the babys start to build their labirint (start swimming horizontly) you can get out the male. Now, you just have to watch for the babyes grow. Be carefull before you start. You have to think that those babies will turn out to be lots of males, that will have to keep separate when they grow. Can you do that? What would you do with them, sell them, give them proper care or a good home....you have to think of all that before starting. it's nnot hard to do it, the hardest part is after. With all that sad, good luck, and have a nice spawn.

I have experience but only with the live bearing fish. It is very difficult with the siamese fighting fish, because the male will attack the female -so if she is not ready it will be very dangerous for her. I attempted this once but gave up and went back to livebearers. Siamese fighting fish require a 5 gallon tank for the male, with little aeration this is because the male builds a bubble nest for the eggs on the top of the water. So you can not have too much water movement in the tank to disrupt this process. You would place the female in his tank and if she is ready they will breed and he will catch the eggs in his mouth after fertilizing them and spit them in the nest. He will have to be removed just before or as the babies hatch, as he will eat them after they are born. then they would have to be fed with Fry food. I find the live bearing fish much easier and have bred Platies, mollies, swordtails and guppies with ease. My favorites are the platy and maybe the guppy - I love the colors and color combinations you can create. It is fun watching them give birth too. It took me years to finally see this miracle. Then I saw it all the time, I haven't had a working fish tank in years. you make me long to start up my tanks once again.. Good luck too you

I have been keeping and breeding fish for over 50 years. First off on goldfish they need a cooling down period of about one or two months with below 50 degrees water and then slowly brought back up (just as you slowly brought them down in temperature). Yes you do need a large tank or a pond to spawn the goldfish and have many young survive as well as separating the eggs and young from the parents as the older fish will eat the eggs and young if the get a chance to. If you let ;us know which kind of fish that yo wish to spawn then someone should be able to tell you how to go about it.I am a moderator on aquariumpros.com if you wish to get information there.

if breeding with a goldfish you must have a big area in the spawning grown goldfish needs a bigger fish grown to spawn.