Thread: how do beta fish mate ?

okay so i have 2 beta fish girl and a boy and they fight if you put them in the same tank and i want to have beta baby fish but im afraid my big fish will kill each other any help please !!

the woman releases the eggs the man releases the sperm

you put a girl in a contain floatin in the tank
you let the male swim free
the male will bullie her around flaring and pushin her maybe a bite here and there
then your girl will get verical lines the male will blow a bubble nest
the male will wrape around the girl nd squezz the babys out he will place them in the bubble nest
if you have more questions message me

I saw a program describing how they did it and showing it... LOL fishy porn =P But I'm pretty sure they basically attach to each other in a wierd way...

i dont know

They hump.

Then they have 56 babies.

just like any other fish im assuming??

Well I'm Fish Man...
But, I don't know to much about beta fish but I know they will try and kill each other...
Maybe you should Google it.

i have often wondered that myself seems how when you put 2 together they fight and kill each other

You have to feed them a variety of foods, and keep the female in a tank next to the male. After a few weeks, the male will build a bubble nest ( a bunch of bubbles at the surface of the water ) and the female can be added.

Usually, you don't leave the female in for longer than a day. After that you take the female out, and the male betta will care for the babies. they will fall from the next, and he will scoop them up and put them back into the bubble nest.

once the betta babies are free-swimming, the daddy should be removed from the tank.

the bettas will spawn more than 100 fry.. usually, so you need to be prepared to home each of them, also to be able to separate the male babies once they are aggressive.

the babies should be fed several different LIVE foods.

breeding these bettas really shouldn't be something you do on a whim. there are so many petstore bettas, you wont be able to home most of them

your bettas should be in heated tanks, not little cups. please do research on the fish before you try sticking two aggressive fish into one small, most likely cold tank to get babies.

if you do your research think about buying a quality pair on aquabid.com

also if you don't know what cycling is please do not breed fish until you understand the basic things.

ok good luck with that