The farm is located off Jalan Kayu and is owned by a retiree. The owner was a betta player in his younger days and after retirement decided to spend his spare time in breeding and raising fighters. He is in his sixties and has been a breeder of fighters for the last 10 years.
The farm has an area of about 250 metres square, divided into 2 sections, one section for concrete ponds and another for earthen ponds.
0:15 - Shows Concrete Ponds
0:20 - Shows Earthen Ponds
0:42 to 1:16 - Betttas in Earthen Ponds
1:16 to 1:32 - Broodstock area.
1:32 to 1:42 - Breeder's merticulous records of his families of fighters can be seen in those yellow stickers. The age, their parents for example are recorded for easy reference.
2:00 to 2:20 - Newly harvested fighters in glass jar. They are individually kept in each jar. Clay pots are also used.
2:20 to 2:38 - Newly harvested fighters are traditionally kept in these clay pots. They are kept in these pots for about a week and this period of isolation is called "saba" in the local language.
2:33 to 2:47 - "saba" fighters in the clay pots. The fighters are kept individually in the pots, a bubble nest will be built by the fighters after a few days in them. "saba" incidentally means patience in the Malay language, what it does is to isolate the fighter, let it live alone and inculcate territorrial awareness. Once they have forgotten their early lives living and sharing food with their siblings in the ponds, training begins. A good fighter will need to have strong character or fighting spirit, love their territory and fight to defend their bubble nests.
2:47 to 3:29 - Moving on to the Concrete Ponds section. The farm has concrete ponds too, breeding fighters in both earthen and concrete ponds are the two popular methods and the breeder has both!
3:29 to 3:49 - Special pits are dug to collect rain and underground water and are sent to a filtering system for treatment. The "filtering" system consists of many tanks and may seem "normal" to a normal person, but they are more then a filter! I saw it and it wasn't just a normal filter! Keeping bettas and keeping fighting strain bettas is different, the treated water should make them "hard", that's the secret.
3:49 to 4:04 - The fighters are fed moina, tubifex worms, commercial fish pellets and may be some other stuff too.
4:04 to 4:22 - Dried IAL(Indian Almond Leaves)
4:22 to 4:28 - The breeder is indeed very merticulous, there is even a small design plan of his farm! You won't get lost and you won't mix up the ponds too haha. Not forgeting a small corner for testing :)
4:28 to 4:59 - Male and Female breeders in glass jars ready for breeding. F14 seem likely the female base stock for his next generation of fighters. Cross breeding with other male fighters collected from the ring is a common practise, otherwise both parents may come from the farm.
4:59 to 5:38 - Buying fighters at the farm, not forgeting always :)
Bye....
For more on the fighting strains Betta Splendens visit :
http://www.redhillbetta.50webs.com/
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