I wen't through that phase.lol. But, I thought about it. Hours and hours of cleaning, observing, feeding, and giving alot of SPECIAL attention to those babies, the parents, the enviroment. You have to condition the parents, the aquarium, the food (babies absolutely need live food). And, there isn't a guarantee things will go good, but I'm almost certain there's basically a guarantee that you will hit bump at some point. Plus, there's already all those bettas in the stores who are just waiting for a home, desperately needing like most the other pets in stores. It's quite sad, that's the thing that made me change my mind. Also, the only reason I think breeding is necessary, is for those show type bettas. The ones from the pet stores won't give you show quality bettas, too many different genes resulting in non-dependable outcome. They aren't inbreed enough to be able to put a blue boy with a blue girl in order to make blue babies. You could get greens, purples, reds, and other colors cus they aren't specially breed. Anyway, best of luk.