how can my betta fish mate?

Question

mine is a male

like male and female

Answer 1

Getting bettas to spawn can be tricky, and you have to be very careful or you could end up with a dead betta. What you need is a 10 gallon fish tank, and a cheap air driven sponge filter. You don't want any substrate because if you do have it you will lose lots of eggs. Provide plenty of caves for the female to hide from the male. To start the breeding put the male betta in the tank and put the female in a plastic breeder designed for live-bearers. This way they can get used to each other and get ready for mating. The female must be a little bit smaller than the male so he can wrap around her to squeeze out the eggs. But she can't be too small or he will kill her. So leave the female in the breeder and let the male build his bubble nest. It usually takes a week or so for them to get ready. When the male has a nice big bubble nest, and the female is fat and full of eggs and showing the operculum, let her go and let them do their magic. When they are done remove the female and put her in a tank by herself with very little current so she can recover. The male will tend to the eggs, remove him 2-3 days after the eggs hatch. Feed the fry baby brine shrimp or boil an eggs and make a paste by smashing the yolk and mixing it with water. And get lots of cups ready for the males, as they will begin to fight as they get older. Good luck!

Answer 2

First you'll want to have several females in the tank with the male. This will spread the males aggression out among all the females. Otherwise the male may badger the female incessently to the point that he kills her.

You'll need to make sure you feed them extra well, and provide a wide variety of foods. Betta's do well with meaty foods and many will feed them black worms in preparation to breeding them.


Once you notice that a female is becoming gravid (filled with eggs) you should lower the water level in the tank so that there is about 3-4 inches of water in the tank. You'll also want to minimize any water movements as this will effect the ability of the male to build a bubble nest.

The male will build a bubble nest at the top of the tank. This is where the eggs will be put once they are fertilized.

Around this time it's best to remove the other females from the tank and let nature take its course.

When the female is ready she will move up towards the bubble nest and they will do the mating dance, at which point she will start dropping eggs. The male will fertilize the eggs and then put them into the nest.

Once the egg laying stops you need to move the female to a different tank and leave the male with the eggs.

Here is a good article on breeding bettas: http://www.aquaria.info/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=311

Answer 3

No, male+male cannot have babies O_o

and how to do it? Well, first off you will need a male and female. If they are both mature enough, put the male in a bigger tank and the female in a small tank next to him, so he can see her. When he makes a bubble nest and she has stripes (sort of strips not left and right)(and fat) she is ready to mate and so is he. Put her in, they will mate in an hour or so, if not, remove her, if they do, after she is done and she goes to hide, take her out, let the male take care of them until they hatch, and then you feed them baby brine shrimp (in a hatchery) and hope they live, I heard they are hard.