Is She Ready To Spawn?

[BethK]

I temp adopted a female betta, type is currently unknown but I have posted a thread in this section with ID help.

She was in a breeder's net yesterday and my male VT was trying to constantly get at her, flaring up, he went crazy. He was trying everything to get into that net

She didn't flare at him but she was interested. When I put her in the other tank, she wouldn't move from the side and was following him back and forth. Her lines running down her side got darker too. This mornin I have noticed that her under belly is slightly swollen and that there is a tiny white bit under her belly, sort of in between her two fins.

Is that a sign that she has eggs? I am not sure of her age but there is a video in my other thread of her, she is smaller than him.

 

[teenfish-E]

Did you condition her? and him? I'm not sure on the id of what type but id guess shes a VT, unless her fins go off into a point then she's a CT.

here is my Female CT Royal blue. got her from petco. She's i think a week into conditioning.

I'm going to give her another week before i try to breed them though, same with the male. Although they show they are interested doesn't always mean they are ready. You want them at the best of health to make sure they can recover after the spawn, especially the female. I use frozen bloodworms, and today i found mosquito larvae, growing in a bin meant for aquatic plants (as soon as i get them), they loved those

She will be swollen with eggs, and the white thing that sticks out between her front fins is her eggtube.

 

[BethK]

I haven't conditioned them at all.

Basically, she came to me yesterday, after a friend had to rehome her. I put her in a breeding net for about 8hrs, so that I could sort out my other tank etc. By the time I put her in another tank, her under carriage area was slightly swollen, like yours but smaller. Sh is more rounded at the front too.

However, she has stress lines, when she gets close to him. My brother was over today and I had my male in the breeding net (he was getting a little hissy with my tetras). I asked my brother to put him in his tank but he put him in the tank with the female.

It ended with him flaring and chasing her, not nipping, when he was close enough, he'd sort of rub up against her. He'd chase her for about a min, then she would go into hiding for a few mins then it happened all over again. I finally removed the male, once I found the net

She seemed a little swollen after that but it's going down again now. Her stress lines showed again, so I don't think I will be using her, I think it would be too stressing for her in the long run.