Breeding Fighters With Two Males...

[blue_betta]

http/youtube.com/watch?v=QGjFijYgUCE&feature=related

saw this.. not impressed (who would be) but the female seems impressed

 

[Jaded12]

Ugh those males are just going to end up beating the crap out of eachother and ignoring the female... I dont know what that person was thinking

 

[blue_betta]

Ugh those males are just going to end up beating the crap out of eachother and ignoring the female... I dont know what that person was thinking

im guess the loosing male would be removed and the winning male will have "proved" himself to female and she will be more inclined to breed

 

[Minni3]

The question is....do bettas fight in the wild for breeding rights? I always thought that the males stay away from each other and make bubble nests to impress the females. And the bigger the nest, the more impressed the female will be...

 

[blue_betta]

The question is....do bettas fight in the wild for breeding rights? I always thought that the males stay away from each other and make bubble nests to impress the females. And the bigger the nest, the more impressed the female will be...

they will, males will fight to compete for a female. nests will atratct the males yes but fights will often decide a winner. i would imagine that a male who build s a big impressive nest and is attratcing a female will get into alot of fights, males would i imagine try to steal a nest if they can

 

[SmileyFace1337]

[URL="http/youtube.com/watch?v=QGjFijYgUCE&feature=related"]http/youtube.com/watch?v=QGjFijYgUCE&feature=related[/URL]

saw this.. not impressed (who would be) but the female seems impressed

very messed up video

 

[Minni3]

I don't know what to say...if the female is picky and needs men to fight over her in order to breed...then i guess that's okay..? As long as the owner doesn't turn it into a sport or thinks its funny. If he took it very seriously and removed the male who got injured out of the tank right away...then i guess it's okay?

But looking at the video...he did make a sport out of it...so i'm quite upset at what he has done.

 

[blue_betta]

I don't know what to say...if the female is picky and needs men to fight over her in order to breed...then i guess that's okay..? As long as the owner doesn't turn it into a sport or thinks its funny. If he took it very seriously and removed the male who got injured out of the tank right away...then i guess it's okay?

But looking at the video...he did make a sport out of it...so i'm quite upset at what he has done.

what i dont like is the fact hes using veil tails.. they get so shredded so easily.. you see the blue one take a chunk out of the others tail at one point. if t were plakats, they wouldnt do so much damage. i certianly hope the looser was taken out and given the best of care to help him heal.

 

[ibbledibble]

Ugh those males are just going to end up beating the crap out of eachother and ignoring the female... I dont know what that person was thinking

im guess the loosing male would be removed and the winning male will have "proved" himself to female and she will be more inclined to breed

i'm not trying to stick up for the guy cuz i think its pretty sick that he videoed it and made sport out of it, but he did say that he took the red male out straight after the video stopped, so there would not have been any more beating on each other.
Although, its not something i would personally want to do, i have seen it recommended as a breeding technique to put another male with the male you want to spawn, as the fight will help get them excited i think, not sure its actually the female its supposed to impress, i think it just gets the male puffed up with his own self importance