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first of all...when she is ready to breed she will let you know, her stomach will be gigantic with big band of black stripes going vertically from its stomach and from her sides too.
breeding a betta, you will need to condition her for the best bet of the most eggs, the conditioning would take a 2 week period time sometimes 3. you will need to let the female and male see each other every single time and day 24/7. this will help her get her readiness and stuff herself with more eggs, also a reminder, you will see BLACK BANDS going vertically down, this is just telling you that she is getting ready but she isn't ready. also, when conditioning, it is very important to feed her live food such as live baby brine shrimp, live bloodworm, live mosquito larvae and especially live california black worm for the best live food out of all...
another thing that can be used to replace over live food is this pellet product that is called "atison pro" and this can be purchase on a petsmart website or "atisonbetta.com". its good for conditioning your betta for showing its true colors and also condition your female before breeding time takes place.
and also a reminder, feed your male as much live food as it can also...as you will have to skip a 5 day period time for the male feeding schedule, if you feed him during when the fries are hatched...he will become hungrier and will taste the little guys, and then your male is ruined for breeding...it won't stop eating the baby the next breed so its completely gone for ever.
from your female hiding under...take out those plant, replace it with IAL(indian almond leaf) if possible. or you can buy BLACK WATER EXTRACT and use the dose as its recommended, over dosing may be used, not harmful to bettas at all, it gets the fish horny and ready to breed and also reduces chance of disease, but IAL would be best. don't panic if the water turns yellow, or dark yellow into tannish brown, thats natural for these items and also a natural habitat to their homeland in their swamp rice field.
also another thing, these stuff REDUCE STRESS for these betta's. so its extremely helpful to use it everytime when your just keeping them as pets or breeding them.
remember...the breeding will take a while and you might be scared that the male will kill the female, don't worry...its natural. and also when doing this, the process might take between 1hr-5hr before breeding is done. depend on how they are breeding. after they breed, make sure you have plants in your breeding tank for the female to hide as she will be exhausted and very torned up from the male, and the male will be guarding. leave female in their for about 2 hour, and take slowly transfer the female out with a cup or something.."DON'T USE A NET NO MATTER HOW SOFT IT IS", the reason why i said this because their skin are very sensitive and using any net can increase the chance of getting fungus on them.
by now, you will need to start your fries food for the best living result, INFUSORIA...you will need at least a clean 2 liter bottle(bigger bottle/jar would result more food), fill it up half way with tap water. get a cabbage, rip a good piece big enough to cover the bottom and boil it until its cooked. once you boil it, put the cabbage inside and fill up the rest with TANK WATER this time for bacteria to start making infusoria. leave it somewhere that gets sunlight a whole lot and for about a week, look inside and you will see a dusty looking particles that is moving around. that is infusoria, and most of the fries will live if you feed them infusoria. in about 2 weeks or 3, you can start microworm or vinegar eels and so on as it grows.
just prepare to have space for them as it will be A LOT of fries if your tending to try and keep them all alive, 20gal+ would be recommend if keeping all alive. cull(kill) the one you wish to reduce the number or to take the life of a deform betta.
and HAPPY BREEDING! LOOKING FOWARD! anymore info, im glad to answer
