female betta randomly laying eggs

[smpthy4thedevil]

i've got a 4-gallon tank split into 2 halves, with a male betta in one side and a female in the other, with a clear glass divider in the middle. i just transfered them to that tank a few days ago, and since then, they seem to be very interested in each other, and the female is getting quite full of eggs... but today i looked in on them and they were nose to nose against the glass, swimming up and down it, and the female was laying eggs randomly in the water! i was under the impression that the male needed to squeeze them out of her, or something of the like? anywho, every once in a while she'd stop to eat her eggs, then go back to the glass and lay some more.

i've never heard of something like this. has anyone else seen their female do it? i thought it was pretty funky...

 

[shrks1fan]

I read once that females will drop their eggs once a month if they don't get to spawn, we just don't usually notice as she will eat them. I have noticed a couple times a female of mine will look considerably slimmer all of a sudden, so that's probably what's happening. They need to release those eggs and produce new ones. Possibly the excitment of seeing the male is what helped to release them at that time.

Linda

 

[Mesome]

I read once that females will drop their eggs once a month if they don't get to spawn

Sounds like what we women get to do also!