Betta Eggs?

[stargirly1208]

hi i'm kinda new to bettas, i usually do livebearers, but it just so happened that my female betta has layed eggs on my lucky bamboo roots in her bowl. at least that's what i believe it is. it looks like whitish gooey stuff with white blobs in it and it appears that a white blob is coming out of her. she was with the male betta for only a little bit in a 5 gallon, but they would fight so i separated them. does he need to be with her and the eggs or should i keep them separated? advice is greatly appreciated!!!

 

[red-devil0602]

NO don't put them back together!!

She has only dropped her eggs(she needs the male to fertilise them, she will most likely eat them.

Why was she in with the male?

 

[bettachick49]

hi i'm kinda new to bettas, i usually do livebearers, but it just so happened that my female betta has layed eggs on my lucky bamboo roots in her bowl. at least that's what i believe it is. it looks like whitish gooey stuff with white blobs in it and it appears that a white blob is coming out of her. she was with the male betta for only a little bit in a 5 gallon, but they would fight so i separated them. does he need to be with her and the eggs or should i keep them separated? advice is greatly appreciated!!!

Eggs don't look like white gooey blobs, they look like little white speks. Was there a reason she was in with the male? Where you trying to attemp a spawn between them?
Amanda

 

[stargirly1208]

well i had heard that you can keep some males and females together in a larger tank and they would be fine, but i found out otherwise. so what should i do with the eggs? put the male in with them?

 

[Andreeuh]

Don't do anything with the eggs (if they are eggs?) Just leave them there. Males and females shouldn't be kept together unless you plan on breeding them.. which takes time, money, experience, and a lot of Betta knowledge.

 

[ILM]

Betta eggs look like little individual specks of sugar (maybe a bit smaller than sugar granules), they aren't in a blob of any sort, and the eggs will go floating away with any water movement about them. Not sure what your female was expelling. Males and females should only be kept together if you are breeding them--the male will get very defensive if he's protecting eggs (they've been known to kill the mother female during this time). If the female won't cooperate and breed, he may harm her (or kill her)--and vice versa, females will get nasty sometimes if a male refuses to breed her. I'd say, without seeing the blobs, that your blobs may be snail eggs--but I can't figure what the white glob coming out of her was since healthy bettas don't expell white blobs.