*snug* thanks for all the nice comments!! Anna, one Betta spawn can produce anywhere from 50-500 eggs. They're usually in the 100-200 range, which I believe mine is.

Quote Originally Posted by ramanth
I was told if both are making nests that means they are ready to mate and you can put them together. Is that correct?
hehe. Sorry hon, girls don't make nests ^_~... the female does not take care of the eggs at all ~ you add the female into the spawn tank (preferably into a breeding trap, so you can allow them to check each other out safely at first) when the male has started a nice bubblenest and when the female is showing "breeding bars" and her belly is swollen with eggs. I'd go into more detail, but Betta spawning is suuuper involved. Here's a good link! You should e-mail it to your Sis too, it has a lot of good info about when, how, and what you need to spawn, its a VERY tough project... I just spent 3 grueling hours syphoning out the bottom of my spawn tank (the hardest part is making sure you don't syphon up fry, and when you do you have to pick them out of the bucket while trying not to pick out any of the junk you just syphoned!!! ughhh, its annoying. LOL), slowly adding in 1 gallon of aged water, then feeding some microworms to the little piggies

http://bettatalk.com/breeding_bettas.htm
(check out their stock page, too! this is where I bought my spawning pair from... Faith is sooo awesome)