How do you know when a beta fish is ready to mate?

Answer 1

a male betta will display to a female by spreading his fins to the tearing point. i have bred bettas before and it is quite easy. you will need to place the male in a ten gallon aquaruim filled half way to the top. then place the female in a jar of water beside the aquarium. if the male displays like noted above. place the female in the tank after two days. if the female is not ready to breed the male will kill her so have two or three females if you can. if the male does try to kill her remover her if you can. if she is ready to breed the male will build a bubble nest out of his own siliva then he will brace the female and wrap around her and she will disperse eggs and he will fertilize them. he will then place them in the bubble nest make shure you dont have gravel in the tank have a bare tank so he can find them. you need to have floating plants so the babies can hide after 24 hours they should hatch if they dont wait one more day they will then. remove the male. the babies should be fed diaspora for the first few days then you can move them to crushed flakes or pellets. HAPPY FISHKEEPING AND GOOD LUCK.!.!.!.!

Answer 2

The male is ready when he blows a bubble nest at the surface of his tank. The female is ready when she is fat with eggs

Here's a method of breeding them that has worked well for me 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 temperature 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 3

When i was 8 i had a beta fish and the guy told me if i wanted to mate it i had to wait until it was two years old. I dont know if this is true so you might want to look it up online.

Answer 4

Well, the males will make a bubble nest at the top of the tank, but I don't know what females do. I always felt sorry for my poor lonely male bettas with a big ol' empty bubble nest and no female to fill it up with eggs.

Answer 5

Beta's are very aggressive/ territorial fish so it is dangerous to put two in a tank together. They will try to kill each other so I wouldn't do. But if you really want to ask the store you got it from.

Answer 6

a male betta will blow a bubble nest when he is ready.

Answer 7

wHEN bETA HAS MET ALPHA IN A POOL OF GAMMA