what do bettas eat

what do bettas eat

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What Do Bettas Eat?

Ah…the "What do bettas eat?" question! Usually followed by the ever popular "What's the best food for betta fish[an error occurred while processing this directive]

Answer? It's best if your betta fish eat a varied diet. Prepared foods, freeze dried foods, frozen foods and live foods.

But that may be easier said than done since they are known to be finicky eaters. Food one betta will wolf down voraciously will be spit out summarily by another. Go figure.

Feeding Betas Basics

Now some betta keepers will tell you to go easy on the live food. Others will suggest minimizing the pellets and flakes. Others still will say to use freeze dried blood worms only for a weekly treat.

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A better questions than "What do bettas eat?" might be "What will MY betta eat?" But let me take a whack at it anyway.

Some known favorites are

Freeze Dried Bloodworms - less chance of getting parasites from freeze dried grub

Live baby guppies -- ummm-yum.

Then there are special foods for bettas. Hikari Betta Bio Gold is a great food to feed to bettas.

Frozen (thawed in one of those little dixie cups using tank water) Bloodworms or Brine Shrimp. Like 3-4 Bloodworms per Betta per feeding is about right.

I've raised mosquito larvae for my fish as a snack. Thrash. Gulp. No more larvae.

Luckily feeding bettas comes down to offering them what they'll eat. Whatever that may be feed very small amounts once or twice a day. .And avoid leftovers. Uneaten food will pollute the water and ultimately kill the fish.

Remember a betta stomach is about the size of their eye. (In some cases it's literally true that their eyes are bigger than their stomach.) And they need you to put limits on what they eat. Since they can't help themselves when it comes to live food.