Each person's experience is always going to be different, the real problem is how you evaluate and determine what you will listen to. It doesn't necessarily make any one person more right or wrong in what they tell you, they can only tell you what worked for them, and each situation is different.

What I have read about Betta's is it generally takes around 2 weeks of proper conditioning to get them to sucessfully breed. This would include giving your Betta's both male and female a high protien diet, such as blood worms and maybe crushed up krill. You'd want to keep them seperated for the time being though. Then after you've given them a good diet like that, if your male hasn't already started, then place the female within sight of the male to stimulate the bubble nest. I can't say about keeping the male in the breeding tank or not is good or bad, the logic of any uneaten food being there seems sound to me though. And you wouldn't want to do any siphon cleaning as that could destroy the nest. It might be in your best interest to keep the male in a seperate holding tank while you feed him the diet. The only problem I can think of is, it's not an exact set time, that after 2 weeks and bang, he's ready to go. It could go sooner, it could go later.

Give the female, in the breeding tank, some places to take cover in case she's not quite ready and gets harassed by the male. Keep an eye out on the aggressiveness of the male so he doesn't kill her. I'd say try raising the temp up to 85, and I'm just guessing on that. It seems like you already have a good idea of what you'd need to do, and this could take more then one attempt so don't get discouraged.

JV

You also could email magicman116, luvinlife, kylie, or 8 in the corner, all I have talked extensively in the past and I can't think of anyone better then they are with Betta's