Would you buy a purebred female puppy (say a Boxer) and then go to the pound and adopt a mixed breed male puppy (say mixed with chow/lab) and then when they grow up purposfully breed the 2 together..and hope to sell the puppies?
Absolutely not. It's the same regard with bettas. When you breed 2 animals (no matter teh sepcies) together you should always try to better whatever breed you are going to attempt breeding. Not mix them up to create more mutts...mutts that you have NO idea what they could or will look like.
Mutts make great PETS not BREEDERS. Tha'ts why when you adopt from the pound..you get a fixed animal...so they don't breed and create more unwanted pets.
It just doesn't make good sense to breed veils, knowing this. And if you aren't willing to spend the $$$ on quality breeding stock...you honestly, don't need to be breeding in the first place.
Most people aren't going to buy a Veil for more then $4, and you are going to spend alot more per fish then that just breeding them...then to sell them you also have to charge shipping. Not too many people are going to pay for both...and TBH most people aren't going to pay to have a Veil shipped when they can just go to Walmart or their LFS/LPS and get one for $3.47.
So what I'm saying is...if you want to make ANY of your money back at all...invest in quality stock...otherwise...have at it but be fore warned you will be in teh hole (money wise) after it's all said and done...plus you might end up having a bunch of fry no one wants on your hands. (because as you said your LFS breeds their own bettas..so they sure aren't going to take yours
and the people on here can get quality stock and not regular veils..from people like Synirr and Kelly)
You are dealing with the lives of other living things...you shouldn't breed them because it's cheap or easy or because you think it's cool (becasue everyone else is doing it)...but instead to better them any way you can.
Which honestly seems to be the going thing now days around here. Everyone wants to "breed" their bettas..cas everyone else is doing it. So they think it'd be cool to do it too, even though they have no idea what they are doing and are ready to jump in feet first without testing the waters first.
Just making a few threads, asking a few questions, and finding out how much it will cost is not all there is to it. Actually keeping bettas for a while (say a year or so) would be a better option, imo. Not getting 1 or 2 bettas, having them for a month, thinking they are cool, and making the decision that becasue other peopel are breeding them that you're gonna start breeding bettas, because it'd be a cool thing to do.
It's really getting ridiculous imo.
Huh? I had no idea about what you just said.... 
