I would like some input

I will be breeding bettas in febuary and I was wondering about something.
I will only have a 10 gallon as a grow out tank and I would like to know if I can take young 3 week old bettas and put them in individual betta cups to make more room for growing in the 10 gallon. They would be treated the same and taken care of but just grow in a different tank. Also are they to young at 3 weeks or should I wait till their older?

 

I use 10 gallon tanks for spawning tanks and the fry grow out in them until they are too big or if there are more than 50 or 60 I'll have to divide the spawn or move them to a bigger tank. At three weeks they won't be big enough to be overcrowded. You have 2 months before planning a spawn and if you get one to happen you need to also plan for having the fry. Putting them in individual jars before they are 3 months old is pretty unreasonable. I feed my fry baby brine shrimp right up until I start jarring the males at 3 to 4 months. Trying to feed a spawn of 50 to a couple hundred bbs individually would take an hour or more opposed to feeding one tank full of fry. It would be best to leave them together until you have to separate them and have more or bigger tanks to move them into.

 

So a 10 gallon will be okay for let's say, 100 fry to reach 3 months?

 

Only if you are doing several water changes a week. With 100 in a ten at 3 months old you are way overcrowded. At one month old a hundred in a ten is too much for most people to keep alive without overfeeding and fouling the water and killing off half of them or more. A 30 gallon would be a much better size for that big of a spawn.

 

The 10 is all I got.
Sorry to sound blunt but that's why my original question was 'can I mOve them into individual cups when they are young so that I don't overcrowd the tank.

 

thanks

 

I move spawns larger than 50 at 1 month to a 20 gallon, 2 months to a 40 or split to 2 20s. Yes you could always jar them around a month of age if needed.

 

Honestly, id take the next to months to snatch a 40 up, even if its all you got right now, be on the look out.

 

I have the money and stuff it's my parents and their no more tanks rule. I've already exceeded by 1 tank. If it werent for them I'd grab a 40 immediately. But I'll probably just use cajunfiberco's idea and use the cups.

 

sounds good.

 

yup