Betta experts please help

[rollntider]

Look at my sig and you will see Mr Rainbow. My daughters fish and we are trying to breed him. He is blind as a bat (no offense to any bat lovers out there ) Anyways I put my best female ( Cambodian with red fins ) with him. She is the most gentle and my favorite of them all. She is super gentle and very eager to breed with him. One problem. He cant see her LOL . He knows she is there, when the divider was in the tank he built a bubble nest (all over the place) And he can sence she is there since I have let her loose with him and she has tried several times to get him to embrace and he freaks out because she touches him (from being startled) I am afraid he may never breed. Anyone have any advice to help them along? thanks

 

[the skunk]

well if he's blind i dont think it will happen.

 

[Grams]

even if you did breed hoy could a blind betta get all the eggs that fall out of the nest.

 

[wuvmybetta]

even if you did breed hoy could a blind betta get all the eggs that fall out of the nest.

You read my mind.

I don't know,roll. You may not ever get him to. There's not much you can do, but bright lighting may blind him even more so definitely keep it dim.

 

[rollntider]

even if you did breed hoy could a blind betta get all the eggs that fall out of the nest.

She will be the one to tend the nest (she is helping build his nest last night) lights are very dim. I have read a few articles on letting the mother stay and I even talked to one breeder who said her step mom took out the male by accident and the female watched them through. So that part is covered.
http/hometown.aol.com/bettacave/RaAndPerdysSpawn2.html
log of the mother tending
all I need them to do is embrace..... everything else is mapped out.

 

[slamster17]

a blind fish embraacing is probably like a blind man trying to have sex.
hope you are succesful

 

[Grams]

might get it in the wrong hole.

 

[luxum]

Did this fish become blind due to illness, or was it always this way? If it's blindness is inherent, it is irresponsible imo to breed it and risk passing the defect along.

 

[bkk_group]

luxum makes a good point, something to be considered...?

 

[rollntider]

he is albino......and very light sensitive. I am sure he can see some, because when he gets right on the food he sees it. He also had pop eye when i got him and I think his site got worse after the swelling went down. I think it is a mixture of the two, he had poor eyesite due to being albino, and the disease made it worse.