Help Me! Betta.?

Question

ok ask ppl say. female betta need to have a white spot to breed. RIGHT? n male must make bubble. RIGHT?

ok.. once i put the female in the breeding tank (where the male in)... some how it seem like the female always run away from the male?

wat wrong? any1 no?

Answer 1

he white spot is not always present when the female is ready, but if the spot is there then she is ready. The male will build a bubble nest when he is ready to spawn. So do a better job than others so it might look very small without a female present. Here's a method of breeding bettas that has served me well for years and years:

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!

MM

Answer 2

Fantastic!!! Betta do wonderful in community tanks, just about every freshwater tank i've ever had has had a betta in it. I'd go with some bright and beautiful Swordtails and platies (1 male 2 females or each type) and 3 cory cats (corydoras) all these fish are hardy and come in all types of colors. The platies and swords are livebearers which mean they breed often and have live babies, so if you don't want any babies just get 2-3 females of each, you could get all males but they most likely might fight it just depends though (just like people they all have their own personalities). I won't get anymore fish than those. I'm asuming you have a good filter, you should always try to get one that is one size up from the size tank its made for. So if you have 10 gallon size filter get a 20 gallon size filter instead, also over the side filters are the best, undergravel filters are kinda crappy I would not recommend those. You will also need decholrinator Stress coat is wonderful also you will need to get a water testing kit sometime it will help you keep track of your ammonia levels aswell as nitrite and ph. I could go on and on. Hope this helps!!!

Answer 3

Nothing in fact that is very normal I know this because I have done this like 10 times so you can Say I am a beta breeder technically I am but anyway just give them a few days and they should be laying eggs.oh and once the female lays the eggs you should get her out then the male should spraiy some stuff on the eggs I dont know what the stuff is but anyway.....then you take the male out then put the tank in a very quite and a place were there are no disturbances then come back in a week then you should see that there are Fry's(those are baby fish) next you should give them squished up pieces of flake food.then you are on your own

Answer 4

The male is showing an aggresive courtship( showing off his dominant side) I guess you can say. This is very common.The female may hide and even loss a few scales.Everything will happen so soon that once she is ready to spawn she will turn on her back and drop eggs to the bottom of the tank and the male will put them in the nest. Make sure you have one in because the eggs take only two days to hatch. Hope you find my information helpful.

Answer 5

Nothing's wrong. He will chase her around, maybe for a few days. This is normal behavior when they first meet. Just make sure she has plenty of places to hide till she's ready to lay eggs. If she lays her eggs (or doesn't after about 4-5 days, take her out and wait a week or so and try again.

See these websites for more on what to expect:

http://www.bettatalk.com/breeding_bettas.htm
http://majesticbettas.com/breeding.htm

Answer 6

At first introduce the male and femail through a see through container floating on the surface. The introduce the femail into the water. If she is still scared then they wernt ment to be. Sometimes bettas just arn't ment to be.

Answer 7

number one
learn to actually make sense when you speak or type

""n male must make bubble. RIGHT?""
lol wow
anyways

go here and check this out
www.bettatalk.com

Answer 8

same thing with my guppies. the famales swim away from the males but they get pregnant anyway. dont worry about it.