Breeding Fighters

[russogden1982]

i'm new to breeding these georgeous fish so not sure really. anyway i recently bought a male and female and conditioned them both in seperate tanks him on his own in a 2 1/2 foot tank about 6-7 inch of water no plants and she was in a different tank. the white dot or nipple thing was clearly visible so tried them together but her in divider first so he didn't just attack her. He started building his bubble nest so after a couple of hours when i thought she would be ok and they did seem to be but never saw them wrapping together after a few hours i put her back in the divider so that he wouldn't just kill her i repeated this for a few days but yesterday she was looking a little worse for ware so took her out completely and yesterday when i switched the light on to the tank she was in to feed her she started to release eggs and obviously he wasn't there to fertilise them so what i'm really asking is could she have released some when she was with him or did i take her out too early? any help please

 

[Jaded12]

Sounds like you may have taken her out to early. When the female is eager or ready to breed she'll release a few eggs, but she also needs to submit herself to the male. Sometimes they need to be together for 12+ hours before the female will stop playing around and submit. Do you have hiding places for her in your spawning tank? Is she torn up, or just seeming tired? My suggestion would be recondition them for a week or so and give it another go. There's no reason to take out the female unless the males REALLY going at here and her fins are getting shredded and shes has stress lines more then breeding bars, Good luck

 

[russogden1982]

Sounds like you may have taken her out to early. When the female is eager or ready to breed she'll release a few eggs, but she also needs to submit herself to the male. Sometimes they need to be together for 12+ hours before the female will stop playing around and submit. Do you have hiding places for her in your spawning tank? Is she torn up, or just seeming tired? My suggestion would be recondition them for a week or so and give it another go. There's no reason to take out the female unless the males REALLY going at here and her fins are getting shredded and shes has stress lines more then breeding bars, Good luck

not really got any hiding places for her on sponge filter and heater i did enquire about plants for her at lfs but they said wouldn't need them for the breeding tank so didn't bother.Her fins are a little shredded will recondition them again thanks

 

[DarkEntity]

When the male is ready he will make a huge bubble nest and show off to the female (who should be visible to him and vice versa)
The female will get vertical bars on her body.