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Post by FishyYugi on Jun 26, 2003 8:46:53 GMT -5
As some of you know, I have a male betta. Well, my parents went to a petshop and said that they had two female bettas!! I really want to get one, but I dont know if I could put her in with my male betta, and not have babies swimming around. My dad said that the male betta eats the femals eggs, is this true? And is it okay if this happens every so often so we dont have to have baby bettas??? Please help!!
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Post by SDRoach on Jun 26, 2003 9:30:59 GMT -5
Unless you want your Bettas to nip and bite at each other, I would not put a male and female in the same tank. Before I knew anything about Bettas, I put a male and female together. By the 3rd day the male had almost killed my female. She barely had any fins left. They did not try to breed at all. The only thing my male wanted to do was kill her.
It is best to give each Bettas his or her own tank/bowl. You can put females together, but you need to make sure that they don't bully each other too much.
Yes, if you leave the female in the spawning tank after they have bred, she could eat the eggs. Breeding Bettas is not as easy as just putting a male and a female together in the same bowl. They have to be conditioned (fed really well for at least a few days) and then the female has to be introduced to the male for a day or so by putting her in another container inside the breeding tank that the male is already in. It is best to have at least a 10 gal. tank for the breeding tank so the fry will have some room to grow before you have to move them to a bigger tank. Even when all things are done right, they will still chase and bite each other at first.
I hope this helps. Good luck with your Betta.
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Post by Denise on Jun 27, 2003 2:41:07 GMT -5
Male and female bettas CANNOT live together as pals! If you want to get a betta friend for your betta, put him or her in a separate tank where they can see eachother, but not together. Males and females can only be together during the breeding process and you really have to know what you are doing and be prepared to care for a 100 or so baby bettas. The female has to be removed from the tank after she lays her eggs and the male is actually the one who cares for the eggs. I am not into breeding but have read a little about it. I don't think you sound like you are interested in breeding either, but just to learn something about it, I recommend going to bettatalk.com.
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Post by GypsyBetta on Jul 11, 2003 19:55:30 GMT -5
 Oh, if you get the chance DO IT! Female bettas are great! For a while I got to where I wouldn't even buy any males. They have a lot of personality and are really beautiful. I would not put her in with the boy, though. Bettas are aggressive, territorial fish that in the wild only get together to "do the deed" then Papa chases Mama away from his nest. Some people keep multiple females in the same tank, but that gets tricky. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I tried with my first 2 girls and lost them both, AFTER they had been living peacefully together for a month. Now everybody gets their own tank.
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~Katy~
Oh, if you get the chance DO IT! Female bettas are great! For a while I got to where I wouldn't even buy any males. They have a lot of personality and are really beautiful.