first time breeding bettas

okay i got her in my vase in his tank. she floating up on the surface not doing anythin but shes been hiding all day. my big boy is flaring a little trying to get her to re-act. fed them blood worms wat else should i do?

They may just take a while to "get ready". It may take a few days of bloodworms and conditioning, but you'll get it.

ya im just trying it out.

When I'm trying to breed a fish, it's a heavy and steady diet of bloodworms and brine shrimp every day for about a week and then they are ready. Also, are you using frozen or freeze dried bloodworms? Frozen is much better.

frozen bloodworms

Good. I would say if you do that for a few days, you'll get them ready.

ya im just doing to see if i can really not totally set up for it but ill figure something out to hold my other male. or ill seperate the tank so my new male get a pice of the tank then by the time the do hav eggs and everything else ill hav a 10g for the new male.

I'm concerned about her laying on her side. What exactly do you mean? She should be flaring at him too.

Good luck!

naw she not on her side just letting herself float for a bit. she does move but she mostly stays at the surface not doin much but sometime she does try to get out of the vase. wen my cemera batteries r charged ill tak a pic of it

Yes I'd like to see what she's doing. She should be swimming all around. Do you have the vase in the males tank? Are you trying to breed them?

The water level should be no more than six inches, and you should have something in there he can build his bubble nest on. A piece of styrofoam cup works well. Or maybe a leaf. When he builds the nest, and she's paying attention and looks plump, they're ready.

getting a styfoam cup today thought i had some from taco bueno but my boyfriend took out the trash so today is the day to look for. and im going to try to breed them as i dont kno to much bout but im going to try and i think the battery is done so ill take a pic. my water should be lower than wat it is now so ill fix it after the pic.

Mine had been building bubble nests (I think they are nests) under lily leaves.

ya she been getting this black spot on her like its truning into vertical lines so ive put her in a vase in his tank and been feeding them bloodworms since last nite

I'm a member of IBC and have had successful spawns. But that was after failing a couple of times! One stupid thing I did is after the first spawn and I was removing the female(you have to or she'll get killed) I bumped the styrofoam and knocked enough of the eggs off that the male gave up. I was so mad at myself!
Oh, and spawning does seem to relate to barometric pressure drops like in many fish, so if it's about to rain you're bound to get a bigger better bubble nest which impresses the lady.
Once you get the spawn, that's when the real work begins!

thats the tank their in

those r them

thats her shes been doing that most of the time unless i feed. idk if she doesnt want to or wat> if she doesnt ill put her back in the 55g and let be herself for a while but wen she was in the 55 she just started to hide most of the time and didnt do anything.

not very good pics but my hands hav a natural shake to them so its hard for me to do pics.

no rain wish but none, if im not successful this time i wont be to upset i just really want to see how hard and wat u really hav to do to get a successful breeding

It does look like she's plump. That's a good sign. And until he builds a nest she probably won't do much more, so lowering that water is going to work wonders. Also, slip a sponge over the filter intake. This will do two things--save the fry from being sucked in, and give them a food source. The fry when first free swimming will feed on infusoria which grows on the filter. They're really too small for BBS the first couple of days.

okay the filter is off right now and where should i geta sponge?, like a regular sponge or something entirely different?

You can use a somewhat fine pore sponge, or a piece of sponge from like an aquaclear filter. Cut the piece big enough to fit around the intake plus maybe 1/2" around extra. Cut a slit in the center so you can slip the sponge over the intake and let the filter run slow. Bettas don't like fast moving streams so they'll appreciate the trickle. The infusoria can take a couple of weeks to establish. There is a way to culture some using a lettuce leaf and I forget what else, because I had the sponge in place and didn't worry about it.

Another thing you could do is add a sponge filter that operates off of an air pump. The kind we use with our linear air pump systems to run multiple tanks. Kens fish usually sells them cheapest. Some LFS carry them in limited supply but Petsmart and Petco do not.

okay thx

pillier refer to my tutoral. She must have her vertical stripe before even trying to put her in with the male.

pillier your water is way to deep . No more then 5" so the male doesn't have so far to go to take care of the eggs and later the fry.