[Ripley]

From my past experience with breeding bettas, I found that the female is never interested right away, but as I said I have never waited this long. She is still barred up and the male is actually not being to rough on her. Because its taking so long I am continueing to feed them both and the female is eating a lot and doing good. I'm going to put some Melaflex in there to help fight any infections or anything like that. I was just watching them and he is still trying very hard to get her to come over to the nest, and he has actually made the nest twice the size now.So hopefully she will be impressed Lol.

Hahaha in terms of keeping the Auratus with the betta. Auratus are aggressive but I have found in the past that they don't bother any of the other fish. They just fight amoung themsleves. Also the betta was an impulse buy for the fact that it was a cheap short tailed male and they dont come cheap here at all.