If bettas are fighting fish, and they're aggresive, how to i get them to mate?

Question

I want babbies bettas :D

Answer 1

Seperate the male and female for a few months in a small tank with a divider and eventually they will be ok and will build a bubble nest and put eggs in it.

If you just put them in together the male will kill the female.

Answer 2

Its not something to be entered into lightly, you could kill a female betta and lose hundreds of fry if you dont do lots of research. You have to be very serious about it becuase once the fry have hatched its like having a newborn baby. Make sure its what you really want before you go breeding living creatures.  

Answer 3

only a male will fight a male

Answer 4

Males will fight with females if they are not ready to spawn.                 If you have a male and a female you need to separate them but make sure they can see each other ( ie; put them in a small tank .. 5 gal.. with a clear partition between them). Feed them good high protein foods. The male will build a bubble nest. Keep an eye on the female. When she has a round belly and a tiny white dot on her belly in front of her anal fin, she is ready to breed.

Carefully remove the partition and let them go. When the male starts to chase her off it is time to get her out of the tank. The male will tend the nest and the babies. Once they are free swimming it will be up to you. Luck to you.....Ray

Answer 5

separate the male for a month or so and tease him with nude photos of other fish then bring them together, put on some barry Marlowe, dim the lights, serve them a special dinner, and put just a little red wine in with the water, change the water afterward and seperate them cuz he wont call her  

Answer 6

I think only the males attack each other.

But yea that is a good question I wonder how bettas keep reproducing and staying alive as a fish if they are always killing each other. Hmm.

Answer 7

Breeding bettas is a BIG committment.  What were you planning to do with the 100+ fry you may end up with?  How were you planning to separate all the males?  Do you have live food cultures up and running?  Do you have time to do all the necessry water changes?

Secondly, you should never breed pet store fish--they are often far too old to be bred, and you have no idea what their lineage is.  So if that's what you were thinking, you can just stop right there.

If you DO have quality fish, the breeding process involves separately conditioning both the male and female and then introducing them slowly in a breeding tank.  I'm not going to go into specifics, however, because the tone of your question makes me think you wouldn't be willing to do all the work necessary in order to breed the fish and care for the fry.

If you want baby fish, stick to livebearers.

Answer 8

Its all about RESEARCH.

.First= you have to get a good quality fish...no..not one from the pet store. One from a private breeder. Once you get a pair you conditon them for about 2 weeks feeding them high/good quality foods.Then you place the male into the breeding tank. Then you put the female in a glass jar, the breeding tanks water just about to the surface of the jar.You have to let the male see the female for 24 hours so he will make his bubble nest. Then you release her into the tank and he may or may no like her. The male will wrap around the female and  squeeze her eggs out then put them eggs in his bubble nest.After that you remove the female out of the tank they bred in. Then the male raises the eggs until they hatch. After they hatch you have to rewmove the male and then its onto raising the fry.Breeding bettas is hard, not for a beginner to do. And in about 2-3 months the fry will have colors if you breed the right color fish and dont get them from the store.

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Answer 9

trust me, you do NOT want to breed bettas. They fry grow incredibly slowly and do not gain any color or size at all whatsoever until they are 30 (yes, thirty) weeks old. a male and female betta fish will kill each other if they are kept in a tank together. in the wild, male and female bettas living in the same pond will see each other rarely, so in the rare instance that they do find each other, they can mate and then leave to never see each other again. If they see each other frequently, a male will undoubtedly kill a female. females however are perfectly peaceful community-safe fish. female bettas are awesome.