Male Betta Eating Eggs After Spawning

When the fry are free swimming take the father out.

Male betta eating eggs after spawning. The fry will not eat dry food at that age. The process can take up to quite a few hours. Once fry are free swimming you need to have microworms baby brine shrimp infusoria.

You will see him taking the eggs into his mouth where he cleans them with special natural chemicals in his mouth. When male and female are done spawning and eggs are released take out female. Have you ever breed betta and you lost all the eggs due to male betta eats all eggs.

Male will watch over until free swimmng. You spawned him too soon. Leave the male betta in the tank with the eggs.

Basically i say ditto to the others that said the males rarely ever eat the eggs but it does look like they are. The father will get hungry after not eating for a week. Ok here is the problem with my male betta he already done spawning and it seem like he didn t care about the eggs falling to the bottom of the tank at all the female did most of the work picking up the eggs and putting it in the bubble nest after i took the female out he didn t stay under the nest to look after the eggs he just swim around the tank not taking care of the eggs then two days.

The male betta not the female will care for the eggs in the bubble nest. He will stand guard and tend to the eggs in the bubblenest until they hatch about 48 hours later. This will be food for fry.

Unlike the bubble nest building bettas the female guards the area which the male takes to brood. I have had some few males eat eggs over the years but it s rare. You should condition the male at least 2 weeks before spawning.