If Betta Fish kill each other, how do they mate?

Question

I have always wondered that?
Can you help me???
Please don't write rude answers.

Answer 1

OMG I can't believe all theses answers, does anybody ever do ANY research at all???????

What you CAN'T do is putting female/male together, and also not male/male
But what you can do, is putting at least 3 females in a 10 gallon tank together, they will choose the so called pekkingorder, what will look like a fight, but after that they will be fine with each other

As for breeding them, you need a few things
10 gallon breeding tank, bare bottom with plants and only filled with 6 inch of water, where you will condition your male for at least 2 weeks
a female which you put in a seperate tank for the male to see, she also must be conditioned for breeding
The male will build a bubble nest, and when the female has a white eggspot and red stripes on her body she is ready to mate and release the eggs
you will put them together and they will mate
when the eggs are released you have to take out the female, otherwise your male will kill her
you will need to take good care of her, because she will have some frayed fins because the male chases and attacks her before they mate
you have to leave the male in the tank until the fry is free swimming, because he's the one that takes care of the fry

Here are also a couple of sites that discribes everything in detail
http://mermaiden.net/Betta/breeding_tips.php
http://www.oneworldinternetcafe.com/betta/breeding_betta_fish.html
http://www.bettysplendens.com/articles/catview.imp?catid=856


Hope that helps
Good luck


EB

Answer 2

Male Betta's do not tolerate Betta's at all. They can go with other fish, the females with most anyone, males as long as there isn't any other Betta there.

How they mate is a process. You have to keep both the males and females isolated from each other. You feed them a diet high in protien foods, such as bloodworms, krill, brine shrimp ect...and the male will begin to build a bubble nest in his tank. The female will get rounder and start storing up eggs, and a white spot near her anal fin will develope. When the male has his bubble nest built, and the female has the white spot showing, then you put the female in with the male.

He will chase her around at first, it will appear as if they are fighting, but it's just aggressiveness associated with mating. After some time, the female will either accept or not accept the male and the bubble nest. If she does, he will wrap his body around her to induce her to drop her eggs, which he will fertilize and deposit in the bubble nest. This will take several attempts to get them all, and when the female is done depositing her eggs, take her out. The male will guard and watch over the bubble nest. That's how Betta's are mated.

Answer 3

The male and the female have to be inn separate tanks, but make sure they're close enough that they can see each other. Fish can only see up to a foot in front of them. When the male has built a bubble nest, you can put the female in with him. The female will scatter the eggs, and the male will fertilize them. You should remove the female at this point. The male will collect the eggs in his mouth and spit them into the bubble nest. He'll guard them fiercely 24 / 7 until the eggs hatch. You can remove the male and feed the fry brine shrimp or fry food.

~ZTM

Answer 4

Not quite.

you can keep two betta males in a sufficently large and heavy planted tank so they have a place to flee and hide. This is how it works in the nature and this is how it works in my tank.

It also helps when both males were raised together, in that case they tolerate each other better.

Females btw can get pretty aggressive too and kill each other if they want to.

Also, many bettas you can buy were bred to be aggressive because they were used for fighting. Wild bettas are more tame.

Still, keeping two males even in a large tank is putting unnecessary stress on them. It is just a temporary solution in my tank while I am searching for someone who wants to have one of the males.

Answer 5

Okay truth: Any of the males together will kill one another.
A male and female together when not mating
time: one will kill the other.
Females together will only be okay if from the
same litter of eggs.
Females do still fight and kill off thats why they
arent called "Male Siamese Fighters".
hope that helps you out there. The male will build a bubblenest when he is ready to mate, cant remember what the female does sorry. But sometimes even when you put them together to mate they may not show interest in one another and kill off one. good luck :]

Answer 6

well after 48 hours of the male chaseing the female the female will swim twords him with her head low and back fin in the air after that the male will make buble nest and will squze the eggs out of her with his lower fins

Answer 7

it is the males that kill each other. i have never heard of a female and male betta fighting to the death.

Answer 8

Only the males fight. In their natural habitat, they live in small pools where there is literally only room for one or two adults. In theory the males might learn to coexist if they had enough space, but I'm not sure anyone has tested that; it would be rather expensive, as you'd probably go through a lot of fish.

Answer 9

Generally speaking, only the males fight. Once a male and a female mate, the male needs to be removed because he usually eats the eggs.

Answer 10

yea dont ever ever put 2 males together and with other fish i hate one male betta and like 3 goldfish he killed them all then he was like killed too or something but i have just one betta and ive had him for 5 or 6 years now