Female Betta Fish Building Bubble Nest
My water agitation is fine and i just don t get it so if anyone an help me out with.
Female betta fish building bubble nest. While this has a degree of truth to it it isn t exactly accurate. When i went to take out what i thought was food it wasn t food i think that they are eggs. A common hypothesis within the fish keeping community is that betta only build a nest when they re happy.
Today the bigger one started building a bubble nest. I thought only makes did this when they want to breed. Only females have an ovipositor and it is the only true fire way to know that your betta is a female and not a plakat.
Or that a female betta needs to mate before it can lay eggs. Another possibility is that the bubbles you are finding are not the result of your fish trying to create a bubble nest and are rather the byproduct of your fish breathing from the surface. Invariably someone would respond to people who wrote that their female was building a nest to say that the owner of the fish must be mistaken about the sex of their fish building a nest that their fish must be a male.
My sons female betta hasn t been eating like normal and today i found a bubble nest in the corner of the tank above one of the plants. This common practice is about building an oxygen rich environment to hatch fry from eggs but that doesn t mean a male has to mate in order to build one. Why are the eggs kept in a bubble nest.
We have no male or any other fish in the tank and she was initially bought as a. Or that only a male puts the eggs into the nest. Aside from releasing the eggs the female betta fish do not play any role in raising or protecting the young.
Securing eggs inside bubbles means that they are kept moist and are surrounded by oxygen rich air and this is why betta fish build bubble nests. Having a betta fish can be exciting if you know how to treat your fish and it can be fun and awe inspiring to watch the natural way in which the male creates a bubble nest. In the wild betta fish habitats are often quite dirty shallow puddles without much oxygen.