Re: spawning fun


Nikki wrote:
"Mellie101" <mellie101@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Nikki, your story is hilarious. I have never seen the 'spawning'
rituals of betta's but I now have a great picture in my head. Such a
shame you couldn't have made a film :-)

Mellie


I wish I could of got it on video, my poor guy is so tired :(
I am hoping tomorrow or the next day he can come out of the spawning tank
and back to his own tank, His first encounter with parenthood was not a good
one, or at least everything leading up to it, now he is struggling to keep
the eggs in the nest.
I
assume, which is so neat to see, he is completely bent in half, after the
eggs fall he will let go and catch what he can and pick the rest up from the
bottom.. she will float to the top for a few seconds (as if she is dead), in
that time he is picking the eggs up in his mouth and taking them to the
nest...its pretty cool to see their colors during this time, this female is
a dark blue and she almost looked metallic during spawning, with stripes
going up & down instead of long ways. as soon as they are done he will turn
on her quickly so then you just got to get her out of the tank and baby her
because she will be a bit beat up, then he takes it from there if he is a
good dad, once they start swimming he comes out of the tank also. then you
have a tank full of tiny tiny fry...then the work starts
nik

Hi there Nikki

You said:

When they spawn I keep the female in a glass lantern at least for a day or
two, and it gives him time to build his nest, for the most part he will nip
at her when she comes out (or in this case she will nip at him and destroy
his nest) when she is ready she will go under the nest face down, he will
wrap his body around hers to squeeze the eggs out and fertilize them

Just to clarify, the male does wrap his fins around the female during
the spawing embrace, but he isn't "squeezing" the eggs out.
As the female releases the eggs the male also releases milt (sperm).

Also....give that poor girl a break. You simply don't know *why* she
did that to the bubble nest before spawning with the male.
That's instinct kicking in.
She is making sure there are NO BODY ELSES eggs in that nest and that
only hers will be there.
Now that you understand why she did that and why any female would do
the same, it doesn't seem so "witchy" with a *b* , (LOL), does it. = )

.

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