The Beautiful Breeding Behaviours of Bettas

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[kbrown]

I don't know how you get such great video of your fish, especially the tiny babies, but it's greatly appreciated, thanks for all your hard work sharing your knowledge, and making it so interesting and fun to watch.

[y]

The new format for breeding videos is absolutely fantastic. Wonderful cinematography, an absolute delight to watch

Your style evolving over the last couple of years has been awesome

[kellycasperhanson]

👌The quality of this video is excellent! Photography, music choices, voice-over, and editing are all wonderful.❤ Love the new look!
Also, those bettas are amazing 👏.

[ADVentubros]

The water level is too high, making it difficult for the male to put back the fell down egg. I think it should only be 3 inches high.

[Aquafinity]

The editing of this video is wonderful! Great content, love how you documented the whole process in such a great way. Especially those close up shots, those are insanely amazing. Keep up the fantastic work man!👏

[kalpanachary]

The babies are sooo cute and the parent bettas are gorgeous!! Can’t wait to see how the lil ones turn out 😊😊

[DMGWIN]

dude you are cracking me up. I enjoy watching the production value go up. the hike and outing movies are amazing. but most enjoy watching your talent progress as a narrator and dialogist. This is so well done. bordering on playwright and satire. cant imagine where you are gonna take all of this. AND so easy to learn and follow the process. miss hearing and with out further duo....love it when you say baby brine shrimp...i made it a drinking game.

[ethandcruz-mitchell]

You finally heard my request of betta breeding videos, you are one of the best betta breeders out there. Keep it up! 🎉

[griffinballfish]

I remember when I first started watching and comparing it to now you should be so proud of how far your production quality has come

[rjv]

tks for the vid. few suggestions that might improve your hatch rate and quantity. 1. I dont us a sponge filter until the fry are free swimming. bettas are use to shallow pools with no flow. two fish in a large tank like this is not a big bioload but the surface motion can interrupt their breeding. 2. I use a large transparent chimney for separating the female that has holes cut in it to allow water exchange between the male and female tanks. the pheremone exchange will improve the clutch size and I think improves the size of the eggs (anecdotal observation). 3. use some almond leaf in the tank if you have. the tannins gets them in the mood. 4 I use yellow plastic lids that let some light pass for a nest site. this mimicks a floating leaf and the color can help the male monitor the health of each egg and dispose of the bad ones. 5. I have had females help the male tend the nest so I check her actions before pulling her. sometimes they work well as a pair and can keep the eggs very well together. so say theat as the parents tend the eggs and roll them in their mouths they also transfer immunities to the eggs. maybe it is just cleaning. but 2 can be better than 1 and for sure dont pull the male until the hatch is done. one last thing, here we can buy up tubes for the sponge filters with slits cut horizontally along the length of the tube. this allow the water to exit through the side of the tube instead of making a large surface disturbance. very good for small fry because they do not get pushed around at the surface and can still feed easily while the bubbler is on.

[PaulsFishroom]

Nice camera work. I’ve bred and raised hundreds of fighters over many years and have found best food to start the fry on is infusoria. This only needs to be fed for the first few days and gives the fry a real growth boost before moving them onto artemia. If you haven’t any infusoria you can start them on freshly hatch artemia as soon as they start free swimming. If you check these tiny fry out under a microscope you’ll be amazed at the size of their mouth. Nice pair BTW. The male is a so call galaxy koi because of his iridescent scales…

[lillianfirth]

I’ve been dying to see how the last videos with the 3 different pairs turned out fully grown. Is there a video I missed or an instagram post? Seeing how their genetics combine is so so interesting.

[stephsexoticpets]

Great video! Reminds me of when I somewhat accidentally bred my sparkling gourami during quarantine! They were my desktop aquarium & I got to watch the babies grow up to be adults :') One of these days ill edit & post the footage it was a wonderful distraction. Everyone eventually seemed to pass from dwarf gourami iridovirus disease & I haven't kept my fav fish for fear of the disease. I recently adopted my friends betta & she's been a real joy. bubble nests are the cutest things ever imo

[KCG]

Good timing. I’m probably going to try and breed my Bettas this coming month. They are already in tanks side by side and the boy has already been building bubble nest in his.

[yashtapase]

The work you did In this video is awesome man 👏🏻 🙌
The ASMR bubble, eating, water sounds with sync. 👌
The video quality, bg music and your voice The best video !
Huge respect and love from india 🇮🇳 brother 🙏 ❤️

[jameshunt]

Maaattteee!! This channel just keeps on getting better and better! Love your stuff, Don ever change❤

[annak]

Going all fancy-pantsy with that camera, sound and narration - Love it!🤩 That male Betta is a total spunk! 😍🥰

[JenniferDoRego]

You have a wonderful tallent; the cinematography, story and narrative are second to none. I watched it several times; it still amazes me that the little pairs of eyes turn into fish. Respect and gratitude from Georgia USA

[australianbiotopes]

Great video Nick! always fun to watch these, I love the music and sound affects, it gives them a little bit of personality, great little stories for kids that want to have a go, keep it up 🙂

[AcousticKitty]

Legit, these are some of my fav videos of yours. The whole nature documentary style. Thank you for sharing.