betta question

[parrotfish53102]

I'm new with betta's. I have had a lot of success with keeping them, but tonight i decided to get a female betta and try to breed it with my male. i know that it is recomended to have two females with one male. but they only had one female, and for some reason i have a hard time coming accross females. anyways...i was wondering if i could keep them in the same bowl. i have tried keeping my male in my other tanks but he likes to bite the other fish, so i keep him in a big gold fish bowl. i also knwo that males make bubble nests. but that is all i really know. any information would be great.

thanks for the help

 

[i love cichlids]

No way they will eventually kill one another the male will prob kill the female though. YOU need a tank that you can introduce the female so the male can build a nest.

 

[pondfreak4365]

Parrotfish,
My Mom came up with a decorative and possibly useful way to keep both a male and female betta in the same tank without fighting.
She has the male housed in a 10 gallon aquarium, inside this tank, she seated the glass chimney portion of a hurricane lamp. The glass is taller than the aquarium. The female goes into the glass chimney so that they can see each other without any danger of fighting. I would think that you would have to place something over the top to prevent jumping. My Esmerelda would jump out in a heartbeat, but her docile bettas do great like this.

Someone else suggested a 3 gallon tank with a divider, which sounds pretty clever too. Good luck!

 

[LiquidLife]

If you want them to breed, you probably don't want them becoming just friends so keeping them in the same tank will either result in one (or both) attacking the other or else they will live like siblings with no intention of breeding.

And, if they should happen to breed while in the same tank with other fish, their eggs/newborns have a good chance of being fish food. The male will become even more aggressively protective if he's guarding his spawn. Just not a good idea.

 

[Mollymomma]

I also have betta's . I have never done any breeding but I belong to another forum also that deals with betta's only...The hurricane lamp trick thatPond mentioned her mom useing is the most used and easiest way to breed these fish...It condition's them to wanna Usually you keep males& females seperated at ALL time(unless you run into the right tempermented betta's)The hurricane lamp keeps the fish safe before the release, Once you have conditioned the pair for a few days and release the female you must keep a close eye on them. They may start off aggressive but will calm down and embrace...once the eggs are released from the female she will need to be removed and the papa will take care placing the eggs into the bubblenest...
This is the short version of betta mating and maybe someone else may come along with more or better advice..

 

[Very Fishy]

You should be able to add the female betta to the same tank with the male without any problems. It is only the male bettas that fight each other. Males should never be kept together in the same tank.

 

[LiquidLife]

Fishy, that's simply not true. I've released a female in the breeding tank with a male (wanting them to breed after conditioning both for weeks) and had to remove the female because the male was tearing her apart. Some males are just too aggressive if a female is not quite ready to breed, and in his eagerness, he may kill her or she may get so damaged and traumatized that she will die. I've also had a female who was immediately ready to breed as soon as she was released in the breeding tank (where he'd been builidng a nest for a couple of days) and when he didn't instantly get on with the spawning, she ripped all of his fins (all within a few minutes) and had begun to try to tear off his lips trying to get him to cooperate--and he no longer had any interest in being breed ever again. A very docile female can sometimes be kept in the same tank with a very docile male--but you still run the risk of finding they've changed their minds about each other and either nipped the other and/or breeding when you're not home to prevent it.

Generally, females can be kept in the same tank although there are always exceptions--I've had a few really aggressive females that had to be kept solo because they disrupted the whole tank with their constant terrorization.

 

[Vossinator]

1. You can keep females together in one tank. 2. As mentioned above you can't keep males in together, and I would not have females and males in one tank no matter what, unless you are actively breeding them. Then you can use the hurricane globe thing so they can do their "dance" and then you let her free, and they breed.

 

[Vossinator]

Oh yeah, (also mentioned above) forgot some of the females can be more aggressive then even the males.

 

[Vossinator]

LiquidLife,...name sounds familiar...
Aren't you a member on Fish Forums?

 

[LiquidLife]

Of course I be! I actually found this forum when I couldn't remember whether the forum was a plural and whether it was a "com" or a "net." I find a lot of new and interesting places to be that way--having a faulty memory chip aids in my constant search for the meaning of life.... Are you also known as "Pepsi" elsewheres or is that someone who uses a similar logo?