My Betta Fish Build A Bubble Nest

The good news is it s nothing to be concerned about.

My betta fish build a bubble nest. So i kinda did edit this unfiltered wednesday video. Male bettas do this with the help of a carefully constructed nest of bubbles built near the surface of the tank. It s just a bubble nest.

I don t get why my betta fish won t build a bubble nest. Why are the eggs kept in a bubble nest. You may let the female betta fish present inside to boost the urge for a male betta to build a nest.

While female bettas do have the labyrinth that male fish use to make bubble nests they do not build them on their own. This is basically a layer of bubbles created by the male bettas for the purpose of breeding and caring for their eggs. 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.

I have a castle and some live floating plants. There are some approaches you may adopt to provoke your betta fish to build a bubble nest. If housed with a male betta for breeding a female may occasionally assist with bubble nest building but will never make one if housed alone.

I couldn t help myself. Read on to find out exactly what they are and why and how betta build them. Aside from releasing the eggs the female betta fish do not play any role in raising or protecting the young.

Bettas are unusual among fish in that the males are the ones to care for and protect the eggs once they are laid. There s a lot of myth and hearsay surrounding betta fish bubble nests however so it can be tough to separate the fact from the fiction. In this video i explain how i think i gut my betta to blow a bubble nest.