how do fish mate?

Question

it sounds impossible....

Answer 1

The female excretes her eggs into the water, where the male can release sperm onto the eggs. Different fish do it different ways.

Largemouth Bass, for example, put all the eggs in together near the surface.

Herring in San Francisco bay, attach them to the rocks at the edge of the water (poor mans caviar).

But you get the idea.

Answer 2

It depends on the fish. Some fish, like sharks, guppies, etc. have two small fins on the underside toward the tail used for clasping the female. They will swim underneath her, grab her with those fins, and extend and insert the penis, ejecting the sperm into the female. Others, like betta fish and gouramis, will make a bubble nest (a bunch of bubbles floating on the surface) and fill them with sperm. The female then lays the eggs in this nest and they are fertilized that way.

Answer 3

to the best of my knowledge live bearer males inseminate the females, shall we say in more or less the usual way. egglayers are somewhat different. the female spawns, or lays her eggs and the male deposits sperm on them.imediatly afterwards some fish care for their egg by"fanning" watter over them. in some instances female live bearers will give birth without ever being near a male fish. i have had this to happen in one of my tanks with guppies,but the resulting spawn was all female fish. i don,t understand it either

Answer 4

The eggs of fish are fertilized either externally or internally, depending on species. The female usually lays the eggs and the embryos in the eggs develop and hatch outside her body. These kind of fish are called oviparous fish. Oviparous fish develop by obtaining food from the yolk in the egg. Salmon, for example, are oviparous. Ovoviviparous fish keep the eggs inside of the mother's body after internal fertilization. Each embryo develops in its own egg. The young are "born alive" like most mammals. Some species of fish, such as various sharks, are viviparous. Viviparous fish allow their embryos to stay in the mother's body like ovoviviparous fish. However, the embryos of viviparous fish obtain needed substances from the mother's body, not through material in the egg. The young of viviparous species are also "born alive".

Answer 5

the females release their eggs into the water and then the male fish pass over the eggs and realease sperm so the eggs can become fertilized

Answer 6

The females lay the eggs and the males sprays sperm into the water.

Answer 7

the female fish lay eggs and the males fertilize them its that simple...

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Female spawns eggs , male swims over them and deposits semen on them.

Answer 10

under water, females lay eggs males fertilize them and if they are salmon then they die..