Yay, finally my male made a bubble nest larger than 1 bubble. I've had the female and him seperated in the 10g. Now they're together but she just stays in corners of the tank. She did come under it once and looked and it then back into a corner. I hope she puts out soon =[
Here's a picture of the nest and her visit with him flaring at her. Right now he's swimming around the tank randomly leaving single bubbles along the top .
Whenever a male betta has his nest begun and is trying to get the female to cooperate, my mind always (silently) goes "Come here sweet thing, something to drink? Yes, this is my Luv Pad, wouldn't you like to come into my fins and we shall roll around and make beautiful luuuuuuve." As you know, the females aren't always fat and heavy with row--I've had great spawns from skinny little females (and they usually "give it up" when I'm at work or sleeping or doing some other chores around the place and don't see it happening; once I missed it altogether and was getting angry at the female because she was over on the farther side of the tank (from the male), male was busy feathering his nest--so I netted her out and threw her twin sister in instead (sic!) and within minutes the sister fish was over rolling around with the male and he just added their output to his nest that already had the first female's eggs in it. Well, guys always seem to have a thing for twins. I felt like such a fool to not have checked the nest earlier and that little male did his daddy duty great and there were LOTS of babies (turquoise butterflies). That was 3 years ago and I still ahve the last 2 out of htat spawn--two old geezers.
no need to get snippy geez. and how may I ask am I contributing to the problem, last i checked I wasn't the one who wanted to add 100+ new veiltails into the world. 
