I have been waiting for them to breed. The male is in a 10 gallon half full or half empty whichever you prefer and the female is in a container in the 10 gal tank. The last few days I have been feeding them frozen blood worms. everything falling into place the temperature has increased up to the 80's from like the 50's so it immitated the pressure change like in the wild during the rainy season. I have removed the female and the male is caring for the eggs. Hope everything goes well and when the babies hatch I will remove the male. I dont have pics right now but i might be able to try and get some later tonight.
I am learning to breed betta firsthand!
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I went to my lfs after i posted and got some Hikari First Bites cause that was the only baby food they had. Glad someone reccommended it. lucky i bought the right stuff even though i hadnt seen your post likestofish.
wow. this is amazing that i found this post. i have a 2 inch male. and a 2 inch female. are they mature enough to breed.? i currently have the male in a 5.5 gallon eclipse and am waiting to get another for the female .. never done this befor could you please instruct in detail. thank you sooo so much.
This is my first time so i will try and relay everything i have learned from reading on the internet.
It sounds as if you are keeping them together in the same tank. If this is the truth you should separate them right away because the male will chase the female and kill her. They should be able to see each other but not come in contact. This allows them to meet but without aggression from the male. I just have regular betta rather than the fancier crowntail, king, and other kinds. The type of betta i have are bubble nest breeders. The male builds a nest to entice the female and displays his fins trying to get her attention.
This is my first time so i will try and relay everything i have learned from reading on the internet.
It sounds as if you are keeping them together in the same tank. If this is the truth you should separate them right away because the male will chase the female and kill her. They should be able to see each other but not come in contact. This allows them to meet but without aggression from the male.
I just have regular betta rather than the fancier crowntail, king, and other kinds. The type of betta i have are bubble nest breeders. The male builds a nest made up of small bubbles that he blows. these bubbles contain saliva like substance.
I had my male in a 10 gallon half full (because of small crack at top) and the female in a separate container in the 10 gallon tank.
The male started to make a bubble nest and i supported him by letting the female out until he got aggressive then separating them again. the temp is at like 80-82 degrees.
I have anacharis and java fern just tossed in the 10 gallon and the other container with some left over flourite i had (enough to make 1/2 in layer).
I read that betta dont like any disturbance in the water so i dont have any filtration except air that would blow across (reptile cage cover on tank). I plan on putting a small sponge filter in the tank when the babies are big enough that they wont get stuck to the filter.
I read that betta are more likely to breed when fed live food (blood worms). I didnt have any live food so i used frozen blood worms. After i started feeding them frozen blood worms (2 days) they laid eggs.
I am using 13 watt CFL (all i could find) for lighting.
Another thing that i think helped is that the local weather jumped from 50 degrees to 80 degrees. the pressure changed because of the temp changed and i believe it simulated the same pressure change that would normally happen in the wilderness because they usually breed during the rainy season in their natural habitat.
After an hour of spawning (she stopped dropping eggs) i removed her and the male started to build up the nest even more and started his safeguard. I hope that everything else goes well but i will find out soon enough because within 24-48 hrs i will have fry dropping and starting to swim. If anyone else has any other pointers please contribute because this is just my first time. I have been reading all i can find online.
It sounds as if you are keeping them together in the same tank. If this is the truth you should separate them right away because the male will chase the female and kill her. They should be able to see each other but not come in contact. This allows them to meet but without aggression from the male.
I just have regular betta rather than the fancier crowntail, king, and other kinds. The type of betta i have are bubble nest breeders. The male builds a nest made up of small bubbles that he blows. these bubbles contain saliva like substance.
I had my male in a 10 gallon half full (because of small crack at top) and the female in a separate container in the 10 gallon tank.
The male started to make a bubble nest and i supported him by letting the female out until he got aggressive then separating them again. the temp is at like 80-82 degrees.
I have anacharis and java fern just tossed in the 10 gallon and the other container with some left over flourite i had (enough to make 1/2 in layer).
I read that betta dont like any disturbance in the water so i dont have any filtration except air that would blow across (reptile cage cover on tank). I plan on putting a small sponge filter in the tank when the babies are big enough that they wont get stuck to the filter.
I read that betta are more likely to breed when fed live food (blood worms). I didnt have any live food so i used frozen blood worms. After i started feeding them frozen blood worms (2 days) they laid eggs.
I am using 13 watt CFL (all i could find) for lighting.
Another thing that i think helped is that the local weather jumped from 50 degrees to 80 degrees. the pressure changed because of the temp changed and i believe it simulated the same pressure change that would normally happen in the wilderness because they usually breed during the rainy season in their natural habitat.
After an hour of spawning (she stopped dropping eggs) i removed her and the male started to build up the nest even more and started his safeguard. I hope that everything else goes well but i will find out soon enough because within 24-48 hrs i will have fry dropping and starting to swim. If anyone else has any other pointers please contribute because this is just my first time. I have been reading all i can find online.
sd760: so how do they mate. do they ever make direct contact..? like those little breeder things will work?
The female will begin to show a white or red dot near the anus (sorry but i dont remember the scientific term) Then they should be put together. As long as they dont show aggression they may breed. the sign of breeding is that they will "hug" and she releases some eggs, as she releases the eggs the male fertilizes the eggs and then he gathers them in his mouth and blow them into the bubble nest. they will embrace "hug" many times during breeding which may last up to an hour. The female looks dead after the hug beacause of exhaustion. The female should, from what i have read, be removed when she stops releasing eggs. stress coat should be administered to the female because she may be a little beat up because of breeding aggression. both ate directly after breeding for me.
The female will begin to show a white or red dot near the anus (sorry but i dont remember the scientific term) Then they should be put together. As long as they dont show aggression they may breed. the sign of breeding is that they will "hug" and she releases some eggs, as she releases the eggs the male fertilizes the eggs and then he gathers them in his mouth and blow them into the bubble nest. they will embrace "hug" many times during breeding which may last up to an hour. The female looks dead after the hug beacause of exhaustion. The female should, from what i have read, be removed when she stops releasing eggs. stress coat should be administered to the female because she may be a little beat up because of breeding aggression. both ate directly after breeding for me.
i think my female is too fat for my male......he has built the nest, she is plump and showing the vertical bars......her egg tube is also showing...i put them together and they never hug. the mail isn't being to aggressive they have been in there for a week together and her fins are just fine he doesn't chase her anymore they just co-exist....i separated them today and will try to re-condition them again......mabe my male is sterile......they are both just your average Crown tails from the LFS nothing to special.....i was told that the males found in the LFS are often to old to be any good for mating.......the female is still in her prime though haha
I am not personally familiar with the crowntails but i did read that some betta are mouthbrooders. Does anyone know if crowntails fall under this category?