Every so often, my parents find some way to work into conversation how utterly ridiculous this new hobby is, how I ended up spending nearly $300 dollars on Franky, how this friend of a co-worker just has her betta in a little fancy fish-shaped bowl (unheated, no plants) and he's swimming around...

Ever since my boyfriend got his king betta, I've been interested in breeding one of my females with his king. The problem is that the whole breeding business seems pretty intimidating. I'm not interested in breeding show bettas, I just want to do it for fun. But this presents another problem...

I'm breeding bettas for the sake of a hobby, although i would like to save as many fry as possible, i'm ok with losing quite a few since i'm on a low budget and don't plan on making any profit from selling them. ok so my setup so far is an 8 gal sterilite container (its very wide and shallow)...