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I just got home from work. The male is just swimming right under the nest and the female is across the tank by the heater. I'm gonna take her out of it right now, I don't have another tank for her right now so she'll have to stay in a cup until mourning when stores open.

Yea a cup is small but its probably better shes in there until mourning then inside the tank with the male and eggs, I guess.

it takes them a while to get it right congrats on your spawn

Is the girl back in her own tank now? Girls have a horrid habit of eating the unhatched eggs and the male gets quite protective and chases them away. much safer if she can be separated now

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

congrats

i have had many an accidential breed, i kept a male and female in a 10 gallon for what seemed like months, i did a mayjor water change, scrubbed the glass as i went, then they bred but then becasue there was other fish, the male ate the eggs, but before that i added a divider, but that dident work too well

and i had another spawn in a 29 gallon, but i had to poke my finger and inturupt them because the other fish were all hiding on the other side of the tank but a few were intrcepting eggs, and the male and female would chase and nip it was kinda funny

Congratualtions!!
So will you be ready for babies when they come? Are we ever really ready when babies come along?
Anyway, do you have plans for them as obviously you hadn't planned on it happening? Sometimes we just get lucky. You will have to move the female out or find a way to separate them. I believe the males care for the nest until they hatch then it's best to take him out as well. But I have never had a female betta much less mated them accidently! Only regurgitating what I think I remember reading about breeding bettas, I have a whole book on the subject of bettas and a good deal of it is about breeding them.

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"If you're afraid you'll make a mistake, you won't make anything."
-Family Circus

I have no idea how old they are. I've had both of them only about a month. I'm leaving for work in 5 minutes so I'll post pictures of them when I get home tonight.
Also, they just did it yet again, this time they had eggs for sure, lots of little white dots o.o

a problem is i am just guessing, but u didn't condition the girls so the egg count can be small, another thing how old are these fish, as younger pairs that have no experience have a harder time breeding the first few times.

really what u did is really risky, a better thing is to add her in a plastic cup inside the male tanks or outside, very lucky that their are no problems.