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OK about 3 weeks ago, Psycho my little female betta that I bought and had in the breeding net in the 125 who bailed out suddenly looked really fat! And her eyes were going pop eye like. So I removed her and put her in a 10 gallon all by herself (she has not been happy at all) and treated her with salt and melafix...since then her eyes are back to normal, but she is still bulging as though she were a pregnant guppy I started looking in these 2 betta books I have and found a picture of a female who looks just like her, and it said that the female was full of eggs.

Well, that was last week. She is still looking awfully plump and flat out miserable (who can blame her she's pregnant and it is summer time) Will she eventually reabsorb the eggs? Should I go to the trouble of setting her up with a young man as a suitor and see if she will finally release all the eggs she's carrying? I do have one young man in mind (Fruitloop) and he is always making bubblenests, that cover his entire 2.5 gallon and are about 1/4 inch in depth so I think he would possibly be willing...

What would ya'll do? I'm at a loss here, I wasn't planning on breeding bettas, but I don't want to lose her because she is full of eggs...HELP! heidi

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

if she is a crowntail, i would worry! it seems that all my crowntail females have been lost to egg bound and i juts lost a youngish oldish female to a mix of droopsy and egg bound i had bred her once before, and that helped with the eggs, i tried to breed her a second time, and she went all for it, but the male was a bit too rough on her, so she started getting mean, to i seperated them asap, and i noticed she was looking overly plumpy a week before she died, she was hiding back, and not acting all happy like she used to be, so i put her in with my steral male betta in his large sponge holder (like 5in long, and 3in wide+ tall) and she seemed to perk up a bit, but i noticed she was looking realy fat, so i set her up with her old mate, and 2 days later after they were set together i saw she had dropsy, and was doing those headstands, the next morning she was dead

so if u dont want to breed, just watch out for her getting realy lethargic, then, i would think about breeding her, but just because u bred her, u dont have to keep the fry, u could just add some clove oil with the eggs/fry or find someone who wants to care for them while they r that young

if your female will flare and fight, then awhile back i put two females next two eachother like males, so they would flare, and a few moments later they both were releaseing eggs. just a tip i used to make them release eggs without breeding.

but the last case serinro is to breed them, and if you dont want eggs destroy the spawn.

chris my females must be wierd i have all my girls living together (i just dont see the point of putting females in individual homes like the males) and the only thin girls r the new white ones otherwise the colored girls r fat and i actually have a betta PAIR!!! like cichlids always together, even tyring to spawn (broke them up because the other fish were getting a beating by the couple) but they dont hurt eachother, and when i tryed to spawn them on my tearms...they wouldent oh well

i sometimes seperate my females when young so the fins won't get damage and affect the total out come of the betta.

OK I shall set up the 10 that she is currently in as the books say, and see if I can get her to spawn with Fruitloop...I would hate to loose her because she became egg bound, and I'm willing to try raising something newit might be fun, at least it will be interesting, right? So tonight the 10 gallon will get a good water change, and the little male will go into the tank, and I'll float her in one of the plastic cups that I got when I bought the bettas at walmart...we'll see if it will help, can't hurt, right

heidi

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

there realy cant be gravel, i had my bettas breed in a graveled tank, ad i lost a good portion of the spawn but i know i have atleast 2 healthy fry they r in a fry tank with lots of plants, and i only see then one or 2 at a time, actually last night i saw 3 tigether who knows how many i have? but they r growing