betta fighting fish (please help)?

Question

Yesterday i got a betta fish(male). and today I got 2 betta fighting fish(Male)(Female). Both males are pretty shy and get scared easily but the female is calmed. How can i make the males more active. I have small vases for each of them. The male is on 1 side the female is in the middle and the male is on the other side. Both males cannot see each other. I am trying to breed them. How will i know which male the female wants to mate with. Are there any signs of which female give when their ready to mate? Also do all males make bubblenest and if all dont how will i know when the male is ready to mate. Thank you

Also my female fishs head is sometimes down and the backside is up what does this mean.

Answer 1

Here's the info you need.

The males will act more shy and easily frightened for several days, it's just in their nature. Don't worry, they will calm down before too long. If you are serious about breeding your bettas, you need to make some changes. Firt, move the fish where none cansee any other and put them on a dark surface so that when you look down into the bowl it bottom looks dark. That will help calm them all down quite a bit. Next, you need at least a 1/2 gallon bowl for each male. 1 gallon would be even better and you need to change the water in the bowls every 2-3 days. Heres some extra info on breeding that will ge you started.

Breeding tank: A 10 gallon makes a good breeding tank for bettas. Place in on a dark surface and set it up with no gravel or decorations. Use a small sponge filter and a heater. maintain the heat at 78-82, the temerature is not really that critical. Using a hood is a good idea to hold in heat and moisture.

Conditioning: Condition the male in the breeding tank. Condition the female in a seperate tank and be sure they cannot see each other. Feed well on frozen or live foods alternating with flakes or pellets for at least a week. The female should be plump with eggs and the male should be flaring and showing his best color, maybe even building a bubble nest.

Spawning: Drop the water level in the breeding tank to about 5" deep. Place the female in a bowl or other container next to the breeding tank so that the male can see her. As soon as there is a good bubble nest in the breeding tank add the female. Check for eggs in the bubble nest every few hours. You know they are finished when the female is hiding from the male and he no longer leaves the nest to chase her down. He will also not be trying to attract her to the nest. At this time remove the female from the breeding tank. If they fail to breed within a few hours go back and repeat the conditioning steps for a week.

Eggs and fry: The eggs will hatch in 2 days. At first the male will collect the babies and return them to the bubble nest, this is normal. Once you see that the babes are able to swim in a normal fashion, remove the male. Now is the time to start feeding the babies. Feed them newly hatched brine shrimp, micro worms or vinegar eels. Feed several times a day for the first week to 10 days. At that time you can start addig some powdered flake food to their diet and begin increasing the water level in the tank.

Care: The babies need very clean water. Do a 50% or more water change every day and be sure to remove any uneaten food or dead babies that you see. Keeping the water clean and changed very often is one of the major keys to sucess. Be sure you cull the brood. Culling is to remove unwanted fish. Remove any deformed fish right away and destroy them.

Rearing and selection: Eventually you will need to split the batch as they will over crowd the 10 gallon. Removing the females to another tank is the best way. The males can stay together without a problem. Continue to feed quality foods of increasing size working your way up to frozen or adult brine shrimp and continue to do large daily water changes. Once they begin to develop color, you should cull based on color. Keep the color you like and remove the rest. Even if you started with two reds you will get a few that are not red or are not evenly colored. If they are near adult size a shop should buy them from you or at least give you some store credit. Be ruthless, keep only the very best to breed with next time around.

The males can stay together basically for their entire lives as long as you never seperate them. Once seperated even for a day they will begin to fight so keep that in mind.

Best of luck and stick with it, you'll have baby betta before you know it!

Answer 2

Betta are tropical fish. they prefer a 5 gallon area (to themselves, simply by fact extremely some different fish or frogs will harm their fins), an decrease than gravel clear out (simply by fact they do no longer in basic terms like the present of their water), a heater (water would desire to be around seventy 8 levels in any respect situations), a thermometer ( to make valuable the temp. is right, of path), gravel or glass stones (ideally glass stones simply by fact they're smoother), a tank hood with a mild (they prefer 12 hours of the sunshine according to day) silk or genuine plant life (simply by fact those plastic ones that are available all kinds of colours can decrease up their fins), and a small cave (one that would not have any style of tiny ares they'd get their fins caught). they'd desire to be fed betta pellets (3-5 according to day) for 5 days (would be swapped with blood worms sooner or later), 0.5 a shelled pea the 6th day, and not something on the seventh day so as that they'd digest wisely.

Answer 3

Get a 10g tank, two divider and put the female in the middle. Try not getting a filter because the males will not make any bubbles. Then get three more females. Put two females in each males partition. Then remove the females after courtship. Leave eveything to the male.

Answer 4

If the males are in tiny "vases" and can't see each other, they're not going to get more active. They need to see each other to spread their fins and put on a show. Also, they're fish - they don't care who they mate with. These fish will only spawn if they're together in a tank, in prime condition, fed good food including some worms, with water conditions to their liking. Sounds like you'd better do a lot of reading - you also need to know how to look after the fry if they do spawn.

Answer 5

oh wow -- so many big questions. first things first i would try getting your bettas in vases of at least a gallon.

make sure they are in a spot where the temperature is at least 70 degrees. bettas get sluggish when it is cold. it also takes them a while to get used to new environments sometimes

you can perk them up by feeding them frozen foods like bloodworms. usually betta pellets 5 days and bloodworms 2 days is a good way to feed them.


change their water regularly too.

the breeding thing i am not going to touch -- i will give you a website so you can see it isn't difficult but takes a lot of patience and equipment.

http://www.flippersandfins.net/bettabreedingarticle.htm

Answer 6

Yes all male bettas make bubble nests so they are always ready. it is good how you have them so they can flirt just wait a couple weeks and put one pair together ...but watch to see if they fight then scoop one out quick...after you leave them together and no fighting you must take out the female. The male will suck up the eggs and blow them into the bubble nest and look after them.

Answer 7

First of all you need to get proper housing for your bettas. Bettas are tropical fish and need filtration and heat. This can't be accomplish in a vase.

Please move them to more betta appropriate housing. My own betta lives in a 5 gallon with heat, and filtration, he is the only fish in that tank.

Answer 8

bettas naturally fight put other kinds of fish ( large koi) also put all three in the same tank

or you can put some condoms in the water lol!!!!!!!