Comments on: Betta Fish http://www.bessed.com/bettafish/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:48:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Chris http://www.bessed.com/bettafish/#comment-80318 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:00:01 +0000 http://www.bessed.com/bettafish/#comment-80318 To the last commenter (tawnya deibert) - about breeding bettas: It's tricky business... there is no way to tell whether or not a male will like a female or not. Basically, you put them together, and if the male becomes aggressive, you need to take him out, and try another female. There is not way to "convince" them to play nice. They either do... or they will kill the poor female. Another thing: if you do get them to breed, remove one of them right afterwards, or the male will keep bothering the female, possibly injuring or killing her in the process. (They are BRUTAL little guys!) I had a 1.5" apple snail in with a male betta, and he picked and picked at the snail until he actually started breaking his shell! I had to place the snail in another tank to recover and live out his days. To the last commenter (tawnya deibert) - about breeding bettas:
It’s tricky business… there is no way to tell whether or not a male will like a female or not. Basically, you put them together, and if the male becomes aggressive, you need to take him out, and try another female. There is not way to “convince” them to play nice. They either do… or they will kill the poor female. Another thing: if you do get them to breed, remove one of them right afterwards, or the male will keep bothering the female, possibly injuring or killing her in the process. (They are BRUTAL little guys!)

I had a 1.5″ apple snail in with a male betta, and he picked and picked at the snail until he actually started breaking his shell! I had to place the snail in another tank to recover and live out his days.

]]> by: tawnya deibert http://www.bessed.com/bettafish/#comment-57905 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:15:17 +0000 http://www.bessed.com/bettafish/#comment-57905 I would like to know how a person can tell when a male betta fish is wanting to breed and why does a male kill the female betta fish and how to add more betta fish into the tank without them all fighting. I would like to know how a person can tell when a male betta fish is wanting to breed and why does a male kill the female betta fish and how to add more betta fish into the tank without them all fighting.

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