My divided Betta tank?

Question

I have a female on one side and a male on the other. I heard that bettas flaring their gills too much is bad for them.The Male is always at the glass flaring at the female and the female ignores him. should i separate them?

Answer 1

the male wants to show the female that he is strong and powerful so he flares the female  

Answer 2

How big is your tank?  I hope it isn't one of those dinky little pre-made "divided betta tanks" like the ones you find at PetCo.  Those are death traps.

Second, your fish should be fine.  The male will calm down eventually when he gets used to her presence.

Answer 3

Do you intend to mate them anytime? If not, Separate them or the male kind of becomes un-motivated in future, like it becomes used to having no results. But even if you leave them as it, not much harm will come to it. For the female, it could get  nervous and you can tell by the horizontal strips. If she does not display the strips, you are fine.

Answer 4

Betta flaring is a completely normal process. It is not bad for them if they flare, as they cannot flare too much.

When a female shows verticle bars on her abdomen it means that she is ready to breed with your male. It is quite the opposite when she developes horizontal bars. She is stressed and definitely not ready to breed if this happens. I wouldn't be suprised if you see a huge pile of bubbles made by your male soon. This is called a bubble nest, a phrase you will hear quite often in the betta world.

Betta breeding is a wonderful hobby of mine and a beautiful one at that. However, I am NOT going to recommend it to you. I will be happy to give you all types of information on breeding them, if you are interested. I have many different styles that you can (eventually) try.

Again, please do not try to breed your beauties right now. It takes a lot of experience to start and the first time is usually a failure anyway. Please do your homework first, then think about it.

Do not separate the bettas. They are divided and they will be fine together. Sometimes the male will stress out the female if he cannot breed with her after the bubble nest is made. If she shows a significant amount of stress, you must remove her immediately.

I love breeding bettas and would love to help. You my friend are quite lucky that this pair have chosen each other to spawn! What a thought! It took me many tries to find a pair that worked when I started breeding.

Good luck and I encourage you to email me for further questions on bettas. If you are uncomfortable with that, then please go to

http://www.bettysplendens.com

This site has every last thing you need to know about bettas, even illnesses.

Kenzie

Answer 5

u cannot put a male and a male beta together, they fight, that's why their called fighting fish, the flailing of the gills  is to show superiority  

Answer 6

I hate those divided tanks.

Could you PLEASE put them in separate tanks where they cannot see each other?  That would be best.

When a male flares his gills, he's on "high alert" ... too much of that is stressful.

A Betta ... although named "fighting fish" ... is a rather peaceful fish in the right conditions.  And, he can live for quite some time if he's not stressed.  Subjecting him to a living arrangement where he can see, but cannot get to, a female ... well, that is stressing him.

Please either give him his own bowl or aquarium, or put him into a community aquarium with other fish that are compatible with him.  He can do OK in a coldwater or warmwater aquarium ... they're pretty adaptable ... as long as there's enough room.