New to Breeding Betta Fish?

Since you just got the fish today, you need to keep them separate for at least 2 weeks to make sure both are healthy--you don't want to put them together only to find out in 3 days one has ick and just contaminated the other one, and if they spawn and have eggs and one develops ick or fungus, your eggs will die. During this 2 week quarantine period, you need to feed both fish high quality meaty food--and flakes aren't good enough. The female will produce hundreds of eggs and that robs her of calcium and other nutrients so she needs to be in top shape. The male won't eat for a week or more once he gets into breeding mode so he needs to be in top shape too. And you need a bigger tank for breeding. You're going to have to net out the female after she's finished releasing eggs and you can't disturb the bubblenest while your doing it (so bowls are not good to use)--males will often eat their eggs if they feel too disturbed, and the bubble nest should not have too much moving air which will pop the bubbles. Once the femals is removed, she needs to go into her own tank to recover (and be fed and cared for). Once the babies have hatched, the male will need to be removed from the breeding tank and put in his own tank to recover. So at a minimum you need 3 tanks. 4-5 gallons is kind of small for breeding. Usually you only fill the breeding tank up with about 3" of water, and then add an inch of clean water every day for the next 2 weeks--and your bowl doesn't sound like it will be big enough to hold that much water. You add the inch of water each day to dilute the bacteria from building up too much--which would kill the babies. You can't clean the baby tank until the babies are big enough to swim away which is usually at about 2 weeks old. (and at that time, you usually move the babies from the breeding tank and put them into a clean bigger tank that is running a well-seasoned sponge filter set at the lowest bubbling. All these tanks need heaters to keep the water temp a steady 80 degrees fahrenheit--temps that fluctuate too much will kill the babies, water getting too cool will kill the babies. If you'd done enough research, you'd know all this already.