Information on Female Betta Fish & Tank Set- up.
Female Betta were not that popular in the hobby back in the day due to lack of coloring, in recent times they have gained popularity & have become common in fish keeping hobby due to captive breeding they have gained vibrant colors like the Male Betta Fish. The Video is aimed at providing information on Female Betta Fish, Care & setting up a Tank.
How to differentiated Female Betta from Male Betta –
Egg spot – This has to be the best way to tell a Female from Male Betta. The egg spot called the ovipositor is a tube like organ through which the Female Betta Lays eggs.
Belly area – In case you do end up with a Female Betta you would see the belly area rounded off as they grow older.
Vertical Stripes – These stripes may not be prominent in brighter colored Females, however in most cases the vertical lines determine its a female ready to mate.
Fins – The fins of a Female Betta is shorter than the Male in most types.
Body shape – The female betta has longer body with shorter fins.
The betta beard – If you observe a betta when it flares you would notice a black gill, this is bigger in males and smaller in female betta’s.
The betta fish mature in 3 to 4 months of time. The way things worked for me is I select a female a year old & a male who is more than a year old. The reason is Betta Fish can grow until they are 1 year old. Even though people start breeding Betta fish from 4 months old I prefer 1 year old..
The female betta can release approximately 400 to 500 eggs per spawn, in few cases they can reach up to 1000 eggs. This never happened with me.
Female Betta Sorority Tank –
This is tricky & I wouldn’t want to try this again. I had 5 female betta juveniles all in one 20 gallon. The problem started with the female in the video called Emo who is a Alpha female chasing everyone in the tank. I moved Emo to a separate tank. Then another female started taking over the tank, so I had to break down the tank & move everyone separately. Sorority tanks are risky, in my opinion things would change overnight in a sorority tank & there is always case of fin nipping & aggression. Its hard to monitor a single tank all the time. However people have successfully kept female bettas in a sorority tank without any trouble.
The tank you see in the Video is 5 Gallon. The plants I used for this set-up is Cabomba, pennywort, water lily, a rock, white sand, Indian Almond Leaf & a clay pot. I run the light for 12 hours, water change once a week, I add plant fertilizers like Co2, macro & micro nutrients for plants after water change. I use heater when the temperature goes bellow 77 degrees, the filtration I chose was a sponge filter with minimal air flow, to just agitate the water surface.
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