HELP! My bettas layed eggs!?

Question

I have a male and female in the same tank but I didn't want them to lay eggs I don't know what to do with the fry! Help me out what do I feed them when to seperate them e-mail me your answer!

Answer 1

I think that you should let the eggs hatch if they havent already. If the eggs have hatched put them each in a different tank or bowl or whatever so they dont make more babies and attack each other. If you have more than 4 I think that you should try to sell them. When they get bigger you can tell what gender they are by looking at the size of their fins. If they are Short, it is a female and if they are Long, it it a male. If you want to have more babies (but i dont think you do) you should put a male with a female. Hope i helped! Good Luck!

Answer 2

Honestly mating betta is fairly easy. If you aren't prepared 95-100% of the fry will die. 1st unless they are in a bubble nest, and being cared for by the male. They won't survive. Also the female will likely eat them. This of course assumes the male doesn't kill her defending his nest. (Remove her asap) The male needs to be removed after the fry become free swimming.

Your real issue is going to be feeding the fry. You really need to have already started an infusoria, or microworm culture. Betta fry are really really really small. They will not eat flakes, or even adult brine shrimp yet. You may have time to start some brine shrimp, and use baby brine shrimp.

PS- Males and females can't be kept together. Breeding or fighting will almost alway occur.

Answer 3

Congrats I guess on the surprise little fish!

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 4

betta breeding is rather complicated: when they mate and the male squeezes the eggs out of the female and fertilizes them, he proceeds to pick them all up in his mouth and blow them into a bubble nest. He will then defend the nest from the female, so that is a great time to remove her.

the water should be at about 80-82 degrees F. the tank must remain covered, since the fry are very sensitive to temp changes and may actually get pneumonia (they have to come to the surface to breathe until their gills develop). its better if the water is only about 6 inches deep, or the male will wear himself out trying to pick up the eggs, and also to have a clean tank bottom (no stones) so he can find the eggs. theyll hatch after a few days, and thats when the male should be removed.

using duckweed in the tank helps, it gives the eggs/fry something to adhere to at the top of the tank. when they hatch, you can feed them baby brine shrimp or fry food (or infusoria, which is basically pond scum-created by soaking hay in water for a few days)

the tank must be kept clean, or the whole mess will grow fungus. its very difficult to get the fry to survive the first week, but after about a month you should be able to tell males from females...good luck, i hope they make it!

Answer 5

wow -- they did all the hard work for you. you must be good at keeping bettas because a lot of people find this hard -- the best thing to do is remove the female as soon as the eggs are laid. the male is going to have to pull babysitting duty until the fry are free swimming. they have a tendency to drop and he will put them back in the nest until he is exhausted from doing this. once they start swimming by themselves remove the male and start feeding fry food. they make little tiny tiny pellets and liquid food for fry. to grow them make sure you keep the water changed almost constantly. fry growth is stunted by old water. betta breeders usually find ways of changing fry water daily. they should be a good size to sell in about 8-12 weeks.

Answer 6

Umm, bettas don't "lay" their eggs in the rocks. The male builds a bubble nest and tends to the eggs in there for the first few days. If they are on the ground of the tank they aren't going to hatch.

Answer 7

If they aren't in the bubblenest, they probably won't survive. The female might eat some of them, and if they are bad eggs the male will eat them too. Best to clean them out of the water before they grow fungus.

Answer 8

you shouldnt keep betta together unless you want them to breed!!

you can buy special fry food

Answer 9

leave them alone www.bettatalk.com