I recently obtained a GORGEOUS black copper half moon plakat from a breeder in the hopes of breeding him with a female of his type. I put him in with a female to see how he would react (I do this before attempting to breed so as to gauge their aggressiveness and pair them with females accordingly. He went NUTS. and I'm not talking showing off and flaring I'm talking ramming into the container she was in like he was possessed. Scared even my "aggressive" female into cowering in the corners when he would get close to the container. He would make audible "thumping" noises when he would hit the container. I'm afraid I just bought an expensive pet Betta that will be too aggressive to breed. He makes bubble nests but won't even accept "ripe" females. I watched and he showed off at first body wiggling like they do and tried to lure her under the nest but after a couple of minutes he was RAMMING the container like he had previously and caused my female to injure herself on the container. What do you guys think?
Too agressive to breed?
- Thread starter Liz Sagara
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i think the aggression may fall when you release them both into the same tank. bettas are aggressive. the males beat the hell out of the females but stil can spawn tgt. some bettas seems aggressive when they are seperated by the glass as they want to reach the other fish. but when you release. some will not attack the female, instead , he will flare and seems abit unsure about biting the female. if the bubble nest is huge, try to let the female out and provide abit of hiding place incase the male is really too aggressive. try to observe them daily and if the female seems like it cannot take it any longer , then remove the female and let her heal. den try again after a week or 2! good luck!
YEah I put her in with him and the first thing he did was try to beat the crap out of her. He wouldn't leave her alone. Kept biting her and biting her and when she would go with him to the nest he would dance around for a second but if she didn't do anything he would bite her and drive her to the other end of the tank. She was too stressed out so I decided to use another male. Which never did bite her but once after they were done spawning.