During mating, the male betta will wrap himself around the female. The female will release eggs and the male will release sperm which will fertilize most of the eggs as they fall toward the bottom of the tank. When the couple break the embrace, the male (and often the female too) will dive down and collect the eggs as they fall and the ones lying on the bottom of the tank, swim up the bubblenest and spit the eggs into the bubbles (or spit the eggs making a bubble as they do). Over and over until the female has no more eggs or you remove her from the breeding process (at which point, gently put her into a clean warm tank in a dark area to recover, feed her and let her rest). Daddy betta will continue picking up eggs since the ones in the bubbles will often fall out. He might move the eggs to a new place too if he feels it's a better place for his brood. He'll fuss and constantly check his eggs. In about 2 or 3 days (depending on how warm the water is kept at), the eggs should start to hatch and you should see really tiny little specks darting around and daddy fish frantically trying to catch them in his mouth and spit them back in their nest. After another day or 2, the babies will be strong enough to swiim on their own and at that point, you should remove daddy fish (again, to a clean, quiet, dark tank of warm water, feed him, let him recover because he hasn't eaten in over a week). Then comes the hard part of trying to keep the babies alive, don't overfeed them (after they've been swimming about for 2-3 days, they'll need to be fed baby food like microworms and newly hatched brine shrimp). Keep the tank clean but not filtered (babies will be so small they will get sucked into a filter).
2006-12-12 13:32:05
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answered by Inundated in SF 7
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I discovered some thing magnificent approximately Bettas that i'm passing directly to you. do you recognize that bettas are somewhat no longer an aggressive fish and that when you get them you could retame them to be very dosile even around different fish. We did. Bettas have been first bred to be in betta fights that are banned now in many states and engaged on being banned very practically everywhere, merely like **** and canines combating is. For some reason they nevertheless are available those dinky dishes on the puppy shops. Betta's are stored in those dinky little fish bowls for the point of coming up them aggressive by using fact they do unlike small enclosed environments. while you evaluate that's transforming into outlawed, i don't understand why they do no longer end putting them interior the small boxes. in case you ought to make your betta doscile, first get a 10 gallon tank and placed it into the tank for a era of one month by employing itself. then you could introduce it right into a miles better tank that has some woman bettas in it... ie 20 gal. and enable them to be for somewhat. study up on the ambience that works appropriate for breeding bettas and make your woman tank that ecosystem. We finally placed all of them right into a 50 gal. tank that had different fish into it as properly bettas and that all of them lived very fortuitously mutually. there have been a number of matings in the previous we gave our tank to our nephew as a recent by using fact he replaced into so facinated with them. He nevertheless has the tank and each and all of the fish are high quality, residing mutually merely high quality. while the babies have been born, we took them out of the tank so as that they'd not be eaten by employing the different fish as nutrients. Then while they have been sufficiently vast, we gave them away in pairs to neighbor babies.
2016-12-30 08:10:27
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answered by bruss 3
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No. The male is very protective of the eggs.
2006-12-12 13:22:12
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answered by SED757 2
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it means mating bettas male and female
after eggs come out lock out male
2006-12-12 13:21:09
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answered by mastergame_159 2
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he may have the eggs in his mouth not all of them will use the bubble nest they build
2006-12-12 13:29:12
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answered by shorty 2
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no
2006-12-16 11:34:17
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answered by Chris 5
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