Breeding Question

[leighann]

ok well my female betta did get that white spot by her anal fin so i thought she was ready to breed but when i let them spawn there were no eggs and she didnt waitedlook like she had any to begin with. should i have ?

 

[girl4God81]

Has he built the bubble nest yet? Does she have her vertical stripes? What's the water temp? How long did you leave them together?

I had tried mine SEVERAL times before finally getting it right. I just wasn't patient enough, I wanted it to happen right NOW! Mine finally spawned last night and I almost cried!

 

[leighann]

lol yeah i red your forum, i have the basics covered i have done this before but she just isnt filled with eggs. how long does it take?

 

[girl4God81]

oooh leighann! They actually did spawn! Sorry, I misunderstood! How long had they been spawning? Mine were spawning for over an hour before any were released. Is it their first spawn?

From what I have always understood, the ovipostular (or whatever it's called, the white spot you are referring to) only comes out when she is ready to release her eggs. I'm willing to bet that she's full of eggs, and maybe he just doesn't have the hang of it yet. Have you bred them together before?

 

[leighann]

yeah its their first time and thats what i thought when the white thing appears she is ready to release her eggs but she didn't look any bigger and i kept them in there for about an hour and supervised but i saw no eggs i think im gonna let her go again tonight and see what happens.

 

[girl4God81]

Yeah, that's one thing I don't really know yet. I know that some of mine seem to fill up with eggs very quickly, while with others it seems to take a week or so to gt large enough to notice. But, this is a lack of experience talking! I really would try them again, because if a pretty large momma can fit as many eggs as mine did, I'm pretty sure they can be quite small and still have a lot. I wish more people would respond on this. I am interested myself. I would also give them longer than an hour, I know that Jaded once told me that it took one of her pairs 3 days to spawn once! Maybe yours will just take longer. As long as he isn't being aggressive, I might even leave them overnight, or all day if you can.

 

[15761718]

if you condition a female for 2 weeks, that is feed her live blood worms and make sure water is super clean and she should have eggs by the end of that 2 weeks

 

[leighann]

ok well now i have another problem lol the female is getting bigger and she isnt interested in the male anymore. she seems scared of him and runs into a corner near the heater. i have had her in there for 4 days now and she doesnt seem intersted in him at all. what should i do?

 

[girl4God81]

Hmm, well I had that problem with my bettas and I think it was more my male that wasn't ready. He hadn't built much of a bubble nest and he kept scaring her off as if to say "not yet!". When she was ready he wasn't, when he was, she wasn't. Kinda frustrating. I would maybe take her out for a few days (or even a week or 2). Or you could put her in a hurricane tank, or their tanks side by side. When I first tried breeding her with this little boy, she did the same thing (although I think she had gotten more aggressive in her old age) then it seemed like all of the sudden she was like "ugh, I've had enough of this", and went over to him and despite a few nips, was persistent. I would say to just give it a little time. Is he still working on his bubble nest? Do you get the indication he's ready?

 

[leighann]

he is ready. the bubblenest is HUGE but she is acting really scared and not showing any interestbut she is filled with eggs and the white thing near her anal fin is showing.

 

[girl4God81]

I forgot if yu have already mentioned this, but does she have her vertical or horizontal stripes?

Ok, never mind, I guess you already said you know all that. I would take her out for even a few days. My little girl was stubborn, and after a few weeks, she was MORE than ready to go, she wouldn't leave HIM alone. There was no playing hard to get with her, and she would have been ready much sooner than I allowed. Even to wait just a couple days would probably make a difference.

 

[Jaded12]

Ok let me get this straight, you had them together and they did successfully wrap, right? are you one hundred percent sure there are no eggs? because even is she just release a couple and they're in the nest, once you took her out and then put her back in the male would have seen her as a threat. You shouldn't have taken her out in the first place, some times it can take 3-4 hours just for the male to get in the right position to squeeze and fertilize and she won't release the eggs until hes positioned right. The best advice I can give you is to remove them both, recondition them and again in 2-3 weeks.