sea bettas/comets

[epaulette13]

has anyone successfully bred sea bettas in the home aquarium? i had one for a while and i added another that came with a tank i bought and the 2 started fighting. so i took one out. but i was wondering are there any sexual differences? or is it luck to get a male and female together?

 

[BaronVonDango]

The name beta automatically makes me assume that if they are fighting than they are males.
which is common knowledge with the freshwater species. What type of sea betta are you attempting this with? I know some fish, like puffers, for the most part hate eachother regardless of sex. My gsps were an exception. They just hated on all the other fish.

If you can't find info on google usually that means one of two things:

Nobody wants to try to do it
Or
It doesn't work.

Here is a good way to see if the fish will get along. I call it the beta behave test

Put them in separate containers next to eachother so they can see eachother. If they look ****ed than they are clearly going to fight. If they don't look mad than toss em the same tank, prefereably something they can be obtained quickly in, like a qt or something. If they get along chances are they are opposite sex.

That is only if you cannot distinguish them.

Not an exact science but neither is sex.

When I tried breeding my shrimp I played some luther vandross and that worked out for my girlfriend and I.....forgot we were talking about fish.

So that's my quick and easy opinion. Im not an expert on bettas but I do have experience in adding tankmates. At the very least you may find some that get along and may never mate.

 

[duncaholic]

marine bettas have no known sexual dimorphism. The most common way to attempt a pairing with these fish is to introduce a small group into a large aquarium and monitor behavior. Males are said to be intolerant of other males, while they can live and breed with one or more females. The aggresion you are seeing could be the result of having 2 males, but it could also be a result of the established fish protecting it's territory. They are demersal spawners, and have been breed succesfully, but they are an un-common species to attempt. I have not bred them, so the 411 I'm posting here is just a combination of stuff I've read from other people who have bred them as well as my own experience in pairing clowns...which normally wouldn't apply as I try and pair clowns at a young age, before they reach sexual maturity and one changes sex to female. But when pairing adul clowns, even when I know their genders, there is a decent chance they will go to war if I just throw one in with the other. The best way I've found to reduce this risk is to move both specimens into a new environment/tank at the same time. Could be true for bettas as well. Anyway if you want to breed them, you will probably end up spending a LOT of time doing research. I hope this helps!

-M