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Hans - Me too, this happened to mine females. I was told they do this when extremely excited, usually not just at the sight of the male, but especially in the same tank separated by a divider; as long as there are water exchange taking place between the pair which perhaps bring the "scent" of the male to the female.... (important tips when 'conditioning' the pair)
Once I've no intention to mate or condition my female, but simply placed her in a small tank which was home to another male she had breed weeks before (I simply re-use the same tank/water for the female). The female started dropping eggs a few hours later! without even having the male in sight during the transfer or beside her tank!! So I concluded that the female must have somehow "smell" the male in the water.....
Anyway, this is normal (I think) and I've even tried siphoning up the eggs and place them in another mating tank with another pair that's mating-in-progress. The eggs hatched together with the others as I've distinctive fry later. They hatch because the male releases sperms in the water as they mate, fertilizing the eggs that has fallen/falling (depends on how fertile the male).
Also, someone mentioned that she is still VERY ready for breeding; that's also correct as far as my experience counts. It's ok if she is not bloated with eggs later - she still has enough to have a good spawn!
- Jan 2, 2001
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bettas4life - Its natural for a female to do that. She'll be ready to breed the next day. Sometimes females get hype up about food or something and some of their eggs just fall out.
- Jan 2, 2001
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b_splendens - I've had this happen on several occasions. It seems to me that mine do this when placed in view of a male they find "attractive". That said -- I'm not sure why some females will spawn more readily with one male than another -- but some seem to be fairly picky. Is there any chance the female was placed in proximity of a male that she found "more compatible"?
I have a black multicolor CT female simply drop eggs all over the tank a few weeks ago while in the process of spawning. The eggs didn't stop flowing between embraces. The male paid them no nevermind. I figured that these eggs were lost. To my suprise many of them which remained litering the bottom hatched despite not being tended by the male.
- Jan 2, 2001
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- i have had females release their eggs and then build a perfect bubblenest and put the eggs in it! they were in the same water with males, but separated by plastic mesh.
- Aug 6, 2002
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Fr. Chuck Wolff - They are persnickety little devils! Depending on what size tank you had them in as a pair etc. It is quite possible that they were both coming into breeding condition but not quite ready yet to spawn. You just interupted the process by removing the female, and her sudden change in environment caused her to release the eggs so as to focus what food she now consumes on her own survival rather than on developing eggs for hatching.
- Jan 2, 2001
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- I had a female with a male in a tank. Since they weren't doing much, I removed the female and put her in her betta barrack. I just noticed now that she released tons of eggs... the male is not around and she wasn't exploding with eggs.
- Jan 2, 2001
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