Breeding Siamese Fighters

Hi all....

My girlfriend is currently trying to breed her siamese fighters. Two of them did breed, but she said that the male started attacking her before the female could finish, well she thinks that the female hasnt finished laying cos its still really fat and still has a white spot at her bottom.

Should we just leave her now or try and introduce them again?

Any advice is welcome :wink:

THANKS ALOT !!

 

Ok first of all the female doesn't "lay" eggs. The male betta will "squeeze" the female and the eggs will fall to the bottomw of the tank. Then the male will pick them up and deposit them in his bubble nest where he will look after them. The "attacking" you saw was probably him trying to squeeze the eggs out of the female.

Also when a female is ready to breed she will have vertical stripes on her body that will signal that she is ready to breed.

 

Thanks for the reply..... no the attacking was happening after he wrapped around her. But it doesnt matter anymore because he ate the eggs that were in his nest.

Thanks anyway

 

sorry ton hear that he did that, they usually say that the male will attack the female after the eggs are dropped because he sees her as a threat, and on occatins, such as yours, the male needs to be removed aswell, did you breed them in stagnent water, or a fully filtered comm, tank?


Take care.

xx

 

Somtimes inexperienced male bettas will eat the eggs. Females need to be removed after breeding (1) To give her time to recoup, (2) To protect her from the male, as he will see her as a threat to the eggs and (3) sometimes the female will eat the eggs too.

3_second_memory - My guess would probably be stagnent. The filter in a comm. tank would probably destroy the bubble nest.

 

Thanks for the replys guys...

The water is pretty much stagnent... just with a few small bubbles rising from the airstone. But they werent strong enough to destroy his nest, his nest was made in a "cut in half" polystyrene cup.

 

Aqueous - I thought it prob stagnent, but not all use stagnent water so t would explain why the nest got eaten in a comm tank!