about bettas?

Question

people tell me that when the female betta is ready to mate she gets horizontal bars and other people tell me that when the female betta gets vertical bars that means she is ready.i want to know which is the 1 that means she is ready to mate?my female betta gets vertical bars and she is in with the male betta but she is noy fat or full of eggs and ive been trying for more than a month to condition her with bloodworms but no eggs,can you show me how to get her like this also?THANKS!!!!!!

Answer 1

Female Bettas get vertical bars when they are ready for spawning. Horizontal bars mean that she is just stressed or scared.

As for getting them ready to spawn you need to condition them to get them ready. try feeding them live and frozen foods. Also perform water changes at least every other day. This is done for a week or two before the actual mating.
While this is going on get a 10 gallon tank with a tightly fitting lid and some water having been heated to 80 degrees F exactly. (use a 50w heater or lower- any higher and youve got fried baby fish - no pun intended!) You may add some plants; live ones are best as they keep the water cleaner whenever your filter is turned off.You may also place some Java moss to provide hiding spots. Use a styrofoam cup cut in half as a place for a bubble nest. Make sure the filter's suction is not to powereful or the fish will be sucked up.
You will need a place to keep the female where the male can see her but can't get her. It must not be touching the nest site. Try using tank dividers made of that fiber glass or plexiglass you find at the home depot but make sure you wash it really good before putting it in the tank.
From there you should placethe male into a cup and float it in the water to accustom him to the tank water temp. leave him ther for about 30 min. and place him into the tank. Do the same for the female but place her on the side without the styrofoam cup.
BE PATIENT! If you release her too soon, you will cause damage to the female. Some ways to determine wether she is ready is to look for the vertical bars, Her belly is puffed up really big, she will flare back as supposed to being scared of him.Finally, she will swim with her frontside facing downward while she does a little wiggle dance.
When she is showing these signs release her SLOWLY.By now the male will have built a nest of bubbles. They will begin to "hug" and she will release eggs while he does his thing. This can go on for a long time. Once the eggs are laid, remove the female. Once they hatch about 2 - 3 days later the father will take care of them. after another 2 days you can remove the male.The fry can be fed crushed up pellets or flake food. Start changing water around two weeks after the male is removed. At four months wean them to pellets and fozen foods.

Answer 2

Horizontal bars are a sign of stress, while vertical bars indicate a readiness to breed. As far as eggs healthy female alway have eggs. They don't get full of eggs, or anything of the sort. They do get a little bit of a belly if you over feed while conditioning. (Conditioning is done to ensure they are healthy, and survive mating. It's rather violent at times, and they often don't eat for day on end.) During mating the male sort of squeezes the eggs out, fertilizes them then and there, and places them in his nest. So there really is no getting fat like a guppy, or molly.

PS- A good place to read about this is betta talk.

PPS- You do have proper fry food ready right. Betta fry are tiny, and require specialized food. Breeding betta is the easy part, but raising fry is much much harder.

Answer 3

Make sure that both bettas are introduced at the right time if not the male will fight!

Ive heard this alot before.Ive read a little about it too.Foods that are good for conditioning your female betta for mating usually consists of live foods including brine shrimp.When conditioning a pair, feed a variety of foods - many live and frozen foods. Every day, or every other day, water changes in the container are a must, as more and better foods, together with lots of clean water, helps to get a pair into condition to spawn. Condition a pair for no less than a week, and two weeks or more if they have just recently arrived via a shipment or if they come from a pet store - the fish may have suffered from a lack of clean water and good food.
For spawning, in my opinion a ten gallon tank is the best.
Place the male in a small cup of water and float him in the spawning tank for half an hour ( after the first fifteen minutes, dump out half of his water, replacing with water from the spawning tank). At the end of the half hour, dump the male into the tank. Then add the female in the same fashion, after first being sure that her container is closed so that the male can't tip it over in his excitement. When her half hour has elapsed, place her into the glass enclosure where she will remain until she is released for spawning.
The female, when ready, will no longer be scared of the male, but will be more inclined to swim with him and even flare back.
Look at the female's stomach - females always carry eggs, but when ready to spawn she will fill up hugely enough to look like she swallowed a marble!!

The female will show VERTICAL bars on the body indicating readiness to spawn, as opposed to the horizontal bars associated with fear or stress.

The last signs to indicate a female's readiness to spawn is that she will clamp her fins and swim with her body slanted forward, and will exhibit the vertical barring, and she will be doing a wiggling dance.

HOPE THIS HELPED! ;]

Answer 4

Yo! Hear us out! Most of the answer here are right! Vertical Bars: ||| shows that she's ready. Horizontal Bars: === are stress bars, both male and female can show that.
Enjoy! Their mating ritual are great to view and trust me, you won't get bore to see that again and agian!!
Cheers!

Answer 5

mind-blowing!!! Betta do magnificent in community tanks, very virtually each freshwater tank i've got ever had has had a betta in it. i could flow with some vivid and captivating Swordtails and platies (one million male 2 women people or each form) and 3 cory cats (corydoras) those style of fish are hardy and are available in all varieties of colorings. The platies and swords are livebearers which advise they breed often and characteristic stay babies, so in case you do no longer want any babies merely get 2-3 women people of each, you're able to be able to desire to get all men yet they maximum probable could combat it merely relies upon nonetheless (merely like people all of them have their own personalities). I won't get anymore fish than those. i'm asuming you have a reliable filter out, you should consistently attempt to get one which is one length up from the size tank its made for. So in case you have 10 gallon length filter out get a 20 gallon length filter out as a substitute, additionally over the component filters are the ultimate, undergravel filters are kinda crappy i does no longer advise those. you will additionally want decholrinator stress coat is magnificent additionally you will ought to get a water sorting out equipment someday it incredibly is going to help you keep track of your ammonia stages aswell as nitrite and ph. i could desire to flow on and on. wish this helps!!!

Answer 6

it is vertical bars -- but she won't get eggs without a male being around -- here is a website with pictures that i think helps explain mating better than anything.

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

Answer 7

maybe ask ppl at a pet store and also sometimes the male betta since there really agressive try and eat the babies..

Answer 8

go to a pet store