my female betta has vertical stripes and keeps running away from my male canyoushowmehowtomakehergethorizontal

Question

i want my female betta to get horizontal stripes

Answer 1

Move her out of the male's tank immediately. If she is running away, he is chasing her away, and he does not want her there. They will not spawn succesfully unless both are willing. You are risking serious injury to the female by keeping them together.

The vertical stripes you see are a manifestation of stress. She will never get horizontal stripes.

Answer 2

You are not supposed to have any gender of Betta's together. They are fighting fish. You're lucky the male hasn't killed your girl yet.

Here is a list of nine things you really must know about breeding Beta Fish.
(1) Learn to distinguish between mature male and female Bettas. Click here to see several Male Bettas, then click here to see several Female Bettas. Note that the males have much longer fins than the females.

(2) Male and female Bettas should not be kept together except for an hour or two in a fish bowl or small aquarium, while they spawn.

(3) Keep each male in its own fish bowl. Click here to read more about fish bowls.

Answer 3

Hello, I have 10 Serpae Tetras in a 55 gallon tank along with some glofish and, neon tetras, zebra danios, glowlight tetra and black neon tetra. This tank has been established for 2.5 years, recently my friend had to give up a female betta. I put her in this tank and as soon as the Serpae noticed her they began to fin nip. They do not bother the other fish though. I took her out and placed her in another tank and also went out and brought 4 more females for her. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

I would assume you are trying to breed your bettas, so I will go over what you need to do to get her ready.

1st your female should be conditioned for 3 to 5 days on a heavy diet of brine shrimp. When her belly is swollen with eggs, and a noticeable white spot is present she is now ready to be introduced to the male.

2nd your male should also be conditioned with brine shrimp as he will expend alot of energy spawning. Bettas can spawn over and over again for up to 3 hours. This coupled with the pre spawning activities takes alot out of them.

3rd. Place your conditioned female is a spawning vase next to the tank your male is in. She will turn darker developing vertical lines as she gets closer to being ready to spawn. Vertical stripes are the indication that the female is ready or close to being ready to spawn, not horizontal stripes.

4th If the tank you are breeding in is a 10 gal. or bigger and you have provided her with plenty of hiding places to rest from the males advancements you can feed her one last good meal and just place her in the tank. Although a game of tag will take place most females can manage to stay away from the male if he is really mad. We routinely leave females in a spawning tank of 10 gals. or bigger with plenty of hiding places until they spawn. This has taken up to 3 days on occasion with hard to spawn females. We have never had a female killed in the 10 years we have been breeding.

If the tank is smaller than 10 gallons or you lack the hiding places for her to retreat to you will need to be on hand to remove her if the introduction produces no spawning behavior. If the female is not willing to spawn in 15 to 30 mins. in the smaller tank remove her placing her back in her vase. Put the vase out of site of the male and feed her again. Keep this up and she will spawn. Most females spawn in about 5 introductions in this way.

As breeders we hear alot of things from friends and neighbors when spawning bettas or other anabantoids. Most things you will see during the introduction of a pair of bettas is competely normal. Do not worry if the male chases the female even if he bites at her sides or nips her tail. This is spawning behavior. Bettas fight much differently than this. Do not worry if your female bites at your males sides. This her way of telling him she is getting ready to spawn.

Your female may hide at times under the cover you provide for her. During this time the male will alternate from looking for her to tending the bubble nest.

Although at times the actual spawning ritual looks rough it is competely normal to the bettas. Charges by the male are mostly avoided by the female and most are just symbolic charges. We never get excited unless we see both fish standing their ground or if they are locked on each others sides, lips or gills rolling to rip each other. This will never happen if the female can retreat.

The male will exert his dominance and the female in turn will show that she is submissive.

Many Females have horizontal stripes on them. Most do unless they are of one color such as white, red or blue. When a female is really scared she will lighten up in color and swim in a panic never stopping in the tank.

A good resource for you would be the book by Walt Maurus Bettas a complete introduction. This book will go into much greater detail about breeding and what is normal. It will also help you get ready to raise the fry you produce which is much harder than spawning your fish.

You may e-mail us if you like and will be happy to send you a pic. of what a spawning tank should look like.

Good luck

Answer 5

you are better when breeding bettas to have three females to one male.buy a couple more then he cant keep harrassing the one fish, but will breed when one of the females is ready