Male And Female

[Lacuna]

go for it; float her in a cup and then maybe a clear net for a while; breedig traps work really well also; just, don't get to attached to her so if anything goes horribly wrong you won't be devastated, and, good luck!

If an owner isn't too attached to a fish, does it make it okay therefore for him/her to put the fish at risk of injury or even death? Surely the issue is what might happen to the bettas, not how the owner might feel about it? Just saying, I wouldn't put a pet at risk because I wasn't attached, so it wouldn't matter if the pet got hurt.

 

[Amberleaf]

No, no, no; I didn't mean that at all. -.-; I meant, like, don't watch too too closely, if anything happens then you won't have to watch the worst of her getting *completely* torn up.... Or.... Or something. ; Idk. I wrote that like last night. DDX

 

[theshadowinc]

No, no, no; I didn't mean that at all. -.-; I meant, like, don't watch too too closely, if anything happens then you won't have to watch the worst of her getting *completely* torn up.... Or.... Or something. ; Idk. I wrote that like last night.

DDX

If you have bred bettas before you know from watching and observing, the experience is something not seen by ones who havn't for the behaviour part of it. it takes just a swim across the tank for all the fins to be torn up. Sometimes if everything is perfect no bullying at all with them when they breed the female when done swims off scoop her up and done! This is how I do it but have still run into issues where the male in matter of seconds will to the matting dance and the female accepts and boom aggresiveness from no where and usually it ends up in just torn fins and a stress fished. Although it could lead to death. Guess it depends on how you want to look at it. Eaither way female community works good but a male with a female is asking for issues

 

[Haych]

ok, i have heard this a couple of times about the mating dance, is it just flaring or something else?

 

[betta fish]

ok, i have heard this a couple of times about the mating dance, is it just flaring or something else?

It's basically where the male swims up to the female and flares out all his fins to look impressive, he will often wiggle his body from side to side as he does this, he will circle her and check her reaction and if she doesn't assume the nose down position or seem interested and swims off he will become aggressive and chase her and shred her fins, although this is the normal part of courtship and is perfectly fine providing both fish have been conditioned and the female is full of eggs placing them together just to keep them with one another is totally different, the male on most occasions will not tolerate this and therefore I would not recommended it is done.

 

[Haych]

ok, i have heard this a couple of times about the mating dance, is it just flaring or something else?

It's basically where the male swims up to the female and flares out all his fins to look impressive, he will often wiggle his body from side to side as he does this, he will circle her and check her reaction and if she doesn't assume the nose down position or seem interested and swims off he will become aggressive and chase her and shred her fins, although this is the normal part of courtship and is perfectly fine providing both fish have been conditioned and the female is full of eggs placing them together just to keep them with one another is totally different, the male on most occasions will not tolerate this and therefore I would not recommended it is done.

thanks for the info

i wouldnt recommend sticking them together, i did that once before (as said above) after being told i could and regretted it majorly.

just wondered what the "dance" was. nemo does that wagging when he flares at terry lol