When do i know when my Male betta is ready to breed?

Question

Is there any age when my Male betta should be ready to breed? I bought him almost a year ago, thinking about buying a female next time i go into the city for fish supplies.

Answer 1

he is ready once he builds a bubble nest. he should be able to see the female but not reach her (put her in a tall jar inside the aquarium). when her egg tube shows let her out of the jar and remove her the next day.

Answer 2

Male bettas are always ready to breed. It is the females that need to be fed well for a couple weeks to get them in condition to produce eggs and be ready to accept the male's advances.

Don't leave the female in the tank with the male. He will kill or damage her extensively. The only time a male tolerates a female is when she has been thoroughly conditioned and has eggs for him to fertilize.

You must keep her away from him and feed her high protein food for about 2-3 weeks so she will produce eggs. You will see when she is ready, she will get quite fat. Then float her in a jar in his tank so he can see her. He will build a nest. When he has the nest completed, slowly release her so as not to damage the nest.

Now you need to watch them very closely for the next hour or so to see if they are compatible. Sometimes, no matter what you do, the male just doesn't get it. If that is the case, get another male. If it works out between them, he will fertilize the eggs and place them in the nest. When she has no more to give him, you must remove her or he will kill her.

The males tend the nest and the young until they are free swimming. After that, he may eat them, so remove him and start feeding very fine food.

Do you have a heater in the tank? The babies will not survive if the temp is not around 80 degrees. Bettas are tropical fish from southeast Asia and need temps around 78-82 degrees.

Answer 3

Generally betta are best breed in their 1st, and 2nd years of life. You betta is likely about 2 years old so he's likely not entirely in the prime of his life any more. (This is not to say a betta can't breed at 3-4 years of age.)


PS- Honestly judging by this question you need to do lot more research on breeding betta. If you aren't prepared it will end in tears. See betta talk link.

Answer 4

Your Betta is ready to mate at almost any time. The male Betta will want to get to know his new tank mate thow, and she will want to meet and get to know her new friend. Just keep in mind that male Betta's normally will kill the female if she acts like she dose not like him. If you have any other fish in the tank, don't put a female in the tank. The male will try and will kill all the other fish so he has no competition.

Answer 5

Check out www.bettatalk.com for starters If a yr old he's ready. Check out how it's done on the bettatalk site it tells you all about it. I have a spawn that hatched 11/4 takes a bit of time and planning before the spawn but is worth seeing/interesting. Good Luck..?;)~

Answer 6

enable the female betta interior the field for 2 days. Feed them with stay nutrition that triggers their sexual want and additionally project the tank water that helps you much extra extra effective. provide extra vegetation so as that your woman betta cover from the adult males aggressive habit.

Answer 7

You'll know when he starts to get this lump on his neck but first if u want them to breed u have to feed him and the girl bloodworms, brine shrimp, daphnia, microworms, tubiflex worms, black worms, mosquito larvae. But bloodworms, brine shrimp and daphnia work the best. U only have to have on of these food products and there not that expensive at petsmart there only $3.75, for a months worth on mostly all of these.

Answer 8

He will make a bubble nest.......I don't know much though search Beta breeding on Google...there are some really good sites

Good luck