Female Now A Pk Male Soon To Be Dad

[Katieasaur]

In with one of my male bettas I had placed 3 females to mate. Turns out one of those is a PK male as he has built a very large bubble nest and is currently wrapped in a mating embrace with a female. Now I have to carefully remove the other female and the other male without disturbing them. Not to mention I'm not really sure I even want PKs lol
Interesting morning to say the least

 

[Katieasaur]

they stopped spawning but how am i supposed to tell if the eggs have been placed in the nest yest or not

 

[lilfishie]

you should be able to see them amoungst the bubbles

 

[Katieasaur]

i cant tell whats a bubble and whats an egg inside the styrofoam cup lol
im screwed

 

[DeadFish666]

i cant tell whats a bubble and whats an egg inside the styrofoam cup lol
im screwed

You should be able to see him shuttling eggs that drop back to the nest. You will know for sure then

 

[Katieasaur]

i def dont see anything so must not have happened yet
about how long does it usually take from spawning to drop?

and just as I typed that they started spawning agn wth lol

 

[Paradise3]

Are they wrapping fully? As in are they doing this?

Or are they just wrapping without him turning her over?

Cheers,
Paradise<3!

 

[Katieasaur]

they r deff wrapping fully

and then they fall and she acts dead
and the research ive done says thats right

 

[Katieasaur]

but i dont see any eggs falling
maybe its cuz im staring

 

[Paradise3]

but i dont see any eggs falling
maybe its cuz im staring

My paradise fish tend to do some "Practise wraps" before she actually releases any eggs, which usually happens after lights out anyway. Then she only releases about 5 eggs at a time, I wake up in the morning and there's a nest full of eggs.

Cheers,
Paradise<3!

 

[Katieasaur]

i think she might be dropping eggs now but im fairly blind so its hard to tell

 

[Paradise3]

You'll know once they finish because he will be hunting for any that have escaped and putting them back in the nest.

Cheers,
Paradise<3!

 

[Katieasaur]

see no matter how much research you do to be prepared beforehand they still dont tell you everything lol

 

[Paradise3]

I currently have a nest full of paradise fish eggs. They started wrapping last night at about 11:30 and I now have a very large nest full. All I can say is even though I leave my male and female together but they are different species, I think male and female betta's would need to be separated after so dad can look after the eggs and babies.

Cheers,
Paradise<3!

 

[Katieasaur]

yah that part i know
but even though im pretty positive there are eggs in there now i still cant see them hahaa