1)i have a female betta and a male betta and i have 2 tanks and feed the female daily with pelets .I placed my female betta in my males tank for a day and they still havent bred.what am i doing wrong?
2)how do i know when she is ready to be bred?
3)please answer?
2007-05-30 09:33:03 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
I know male Betta's are ready to bread when they have constructed a bubble nest, when this happens, put the female in the males tank.
2007-05-30 09:38:22 · answer #1 · answered by Tunish305 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's what I do -- I built a special 30" long aquarium and put a male betta in it. next I took a hurricane lamp globe (from a Walmart Store) and put it in the tank and put the female in the globe. The male will swim around the globe and show an interest in the female but keep them separated for now. You can tell when a female is ready by the tiny white tube that developes on her abdomin near the vent. Feed them both quality foods like live brine shrimp, beef heart, ground shrimp, white worms, blood worms etc. for about a month. Place floating plants at the surface at one end of the tank and the male will build a nest of bubbles among the leaves of the floating plants when he is ready to mate. She will have developed a swelling belly and the white tube. when the male slows down on the nest building and spends more time trying to get to the female he is ready to mate and if she appears ready remove the globe from the tank - don't splash water around as it will disturb the bubblenest. The 30 inch length of the tank now becomes obvious because she has enough room to outrun him if he becomes violent as he will kill her if she doesn't readily mate with him. As soon as possible after mating remove the female to another tank. Get yourself about 75 or 80 small jars to put the babies in because the little tiny males will start to fight at about a month to 6 weeks old and they need to be kept apart.
Good Luck !
2007-06-03 09:30:28 · answer #2 · answered by pilot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You probably need to increase the variety in their diets for starters. As another poster said, it could be the male that's not ready instead of the female. If the male is ready he will blow a bubble nest on the surface. When the female is ready you will be able to see a small white spot under her belly called the egg spot.
You need to plan carefully for what to do once they breed. Everything needs to be ready for taking care for the fry BEFORE you put the male and female together. Here's the way I breed my bettas:
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 separate 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 adding 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 success. 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 separate them. Once separated 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
2007-05-30 09:44:18 · answer #3 · answered by magicman116 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's a bacterial bloom. Look that up. You are very fallacious approximately preventing meals. Your fish can reside for over a month with out meals. This situation exists on account that the tank has now not been cycled. As quickly as colonies of moneymaking micro organism develop on forged,porous, good aerated surfaces for your tank and filter out (to out compete the water clouding micro organism for vitamins and minerals) the water will transparent on it is possess. Until then you definately have to track ammonia phases (an later nitrite phases) and participate in small partial water alterations to maintain the ones phases underneath poisonous.
2016-09-05 16:58:42 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you see an egg pouch on the belly of the female? It looks like a tiny white egg stuck on her belly. A female is ready to breed when you see this egg pouch. If you don't see it, then perhaps the female is not old enough to breed yet.
2007-05-30 09:48:52 · answer #5 · answered by raquelxoxo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a male beta puts bubbles at the top of his tank.
2007-05-30 10:10:44 · answer #6 · answered by jamie k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe it's not the girl's fault. it most likely is the boy's. when the males are ready, they blow bubbles.
one question: do you feed the male?
2007-05-30 09:39:12 · answer #7 · answered by beaglepuppylove 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋