How do breeders house their bettas?

[LeahK]

I'm just curious--how do breeders house their bettas before sending them to a pet store?
Are bettas in little cups for their whole lives, before being purchased? Or do the breeders house them in something different, like divided tanks? How many gallons does a single betta usually get? What are the conditions usually like?

 

[ch-47 soldier]

probably in the most efficient and horrible way possible

 

[paperdragon]

Most of the ones I've seen use one-quart jars with an airstone in each for the males, and keep the females together in a large tank. There's one guy I saw that has a heated filtration system that circulates through a rack of beanie baby boxes that the males are kept in.

 

[jm1212]

the tanks are probably set up just like any other breeding pair; male and female in the tank and then they spawn, and the fry are collected.

probably in the most efficient and horrible way possible

bettas will fight to the near-death of one or both fish. housing them together in large tanks like you would other fish is not practical in the least. bettas rarely spend more than a week in the stores in the cups, and even that is so they do not fight with one another or attack other fish in the store's stock tanks.

keeping a separate tank for each fish to grow out in just does not make sense fiscally, and would allow for little, no, or negative return.

 

[DarrylR]

I'm just curious--how do breeders house their bettas before sending them to a pet store?
Are bettas in little cups for their whole lives, before being purchased? Or do the breeders house them in something different, like divided tanks? How many gallons does a single betta usually get? What are the conditions usually like?

I seen variations.

Either all the females are in the same tank and males are seperated either by betta cups, 10 gallon tank with dividers, spagetti bottles, liquor bottles, etc.

In Thailand and in the Asian regions bettas live in vases.

Give you an idea, 1 liter or 1 quart are the containers... the glass/plastic boxes not the blue tubs.

http://www.bluebetta.com/bluestore/index.php?main_page=page&id=15&chapter=20

 

[LeahK]

Thanks for all the info. We just got our first betta yesterday, and he's living in what used to be our QT tank. It's a 20 gallon tall. There's driftwood and rocks and a ton of java moss and java fern in there, and we've been enjoying watching him cautiously explore his new territory. While watching him, I started wondering if this is the most space he's ever been in, and from what's been said on this thread, I guess it is.

 

[McLendon]

I can go in to detail about breeding betta's.but yours now thinks he has died and gone to TX