What can I do to make my female betta interested in my male betta?

Question

I have a couple of betta fish, I am starting to breed them, and the problem is that my female betta loose interest after 30 minutes of flaring with my male betta. What could I feed her, or what could I do to stimulate her. I have become a expert with male bettas, but females are just to cocky. Thank you!

I have a couple of betta fish, I am starting to breed them, and the problem is that my female betta loose interest after 30 minutes of flaring with my male betta. What could I feed her, or what could I do to stimulate her. I have become a expert with male bettas, but females are just to cocky. Thank you!

Update: How will or when will I know when my female is ready to bread? How will I know that she has eggs?

Answer 1

Keep your male and female separate until it is time to breed them and condition them on live or frozen food for two weeks. Mature female bettas will constantly produce eggs on a good diet so don't worry about that. When you are ready to introduce them do so in specifically set up 10 g tank with a water temperature around 80 and some hiding places for the female. Place a glass chimney in the tank near where you want the male to build his nest and let the male loose in the tank. Put the female in the glass chimney and watch her behavior. If she gets vertical bars and goes into an angled head-down position then she is probably receptive to the male. Leave the pair separated like this until morning then release the female. After that you just have to let nature take it's course, some take hours and some take days to spawn, just be patient young pairs are notorious for exasperating breeders. You can also try introducing them just before a storm, the drop in the barometric pressure is a natural cue they use to trigger spawning. Good luck.

Answer 2

First of all you need to condition them for at least 2 weeks for attempting to spawn them on high protein food separately

Once you seen an eggspot and the male making a bubblenest, you can put them together

The following article has pics on what to look out for and also on how to do it the proper way
http://www.fishlesscycling.com/articles/breeding_bettas.html



Hope that helps
Good luck


EB

Answer 3

You can not do anything to "make them" interested in each other. The reason that your female looses interest, is because she is not ready to mate. You have to wait on her to be ready.

Answer 4

You have no control over this activity. The fish do the deciding.

Answer 5

give her time