Bettas won't build nest.

[Acidic_Flower]

I'm feeding them well, keeping the water temperature up, and everything I should be...

But all my males won't build nests.

Any tips?

[blu]

what exactly are you feeding? are you trying to condition them? If they are being conditioned they may not make the nest until they are in view of the female or possibly they are too old.

[Acidic_Flower]

Atison's Betta Pro and bloodworms.

[blu]

how long have you been conditioning....I would also add another food to the mix for variety wether its another frozen food or even dry but I would add frozen or live.

[Acidic_Flower]

2 weeks. I could add brine shrimp...

[blu]

I would...it just seems that blood worms and pellets arent quite enough for condtioning...you should also be conditioning your females to....have you put the female in the tank but divided from the male yet..mabey he just needs a little incentive to start building his nest....when I had attepmted breeding my male started to build the nest only when he could see the female.

..when I was conditioning mine I fed them a varied diet of 2 different pellets, flake, frozen brine, and frozen blood worms...not all in teh same day of course.

[ladyoutlaw50]

what is the temp of their water?? Is there a female visable to the male??
Both of our males started making very nice bubble nests once the temps hit about 80 and stayed there and once the female's tanks were positioned near theres -- they flared and those bubble nests were worked on.
We also took a styrofoam cup cut it in half lengthwise and put it in -- they made the bubble nest in that and it also kept it together better.
We have had 1 successful spawn -- the fry are 3 weeks old now

[Gemstone]

How is the water movement in the tank from your filter? Too much water movement will also not enable them to build adequate nests. THey also like a lot of plants... What is the tank size?

[donvichu]

make sure you have some live plants in their and make sure your filter isnt too powerful to cause too much water movement :22:

[Nick_Pavlovski]

mine's never built a proper bubblenest, but then I've never let him within 100m of a female.

[DragonGoby]

You can try to lower the level of the water too... Depending of the size of your tank... Sometimes it helps...