Male Betta Eating Eggs
You will see him taking the eggs into his mouth where he cleans them with special natural chemicals in his mouth.
Male betta eating eggs. Some males never work out this whole breeding thing and will continue to eat eggs fail to bubblenest kill the female eat the fry etc etc etc. The male will also attack the female if they are kept in the same tank. And if it still doesn t work.
I have lots of bettas and have bred many of them successfully. The male will get thin looking as if he is feeling very low and will look as if he has trouble breathing through out the brooding process. Care should be taken at this time as the male betta will eat the eggs if he is disturbed often.
What will happen when betta mates the male sort of coil around the female and as the egg is laid he squirt out his sperms. This video will explain this situation. After the bettas bred and i take out the female the male betta eats all the eggs.
Betta breeding looks good on paper but in reality it can easily go wrong. Now i m having trouble with 2 of my male bettas. Two days after spawning the chemicals in his mouth change and dissolve the outer layer of the eggs to release the fry.
I can see this because his belly grows bigger and then the male doesn t take care for the bubble nest. As the egg floats down he picks it up and blows it into the bubble nest. Also his coloration will get darker mainly in the head area.
A few days later the bubble nest disappears and there is no fries. When the female has scattered her eggs she needs to be removed from the tank and put into another tank the male betta looks after the eggs. The male betta not the female will care for the eggs in the bubble nest.