What's your betta eat?

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latdow

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I just ogt a new betta a couple days ago. my last one was a female, but she can't come with me to college, so i got a beautiful male named Alpha =)
Betty isn't too picky. she eats tropical flakes and shirmp pellets (LOVES them!). however, Alpha won't touch either. he picks at the blood worms and brine shrimp, but barely touches the new betta food i just got him. any sigestions?

What does YOUR betta like to eat?
 
i feed mine crisps and blood worms. He loves them both . Tetra min tropical crisps the multi colored type is my favorite fish food, my buddy turned me on to it, and even my pickiest fish love them. The label has a bleeding heart tetra on it and a tiger barb.
 
mine gets whatever the rest of the fish in my other tanks are eating for dinner:

tetra crisps
spirulina flake
various frozen foods
bits of silversides
bits of market shrimp
bits of basa fillets
critter crumbs (a mix of various crumbled food)


you might try soaking his food in a bit of garlic juice to get him more interested.
 
I feed mine Omega One Betta Buffet Pellets and Flakes. They love them.

I never feed my fish anything that has "fish meal" as the first ingredient.

Pellets are better to feed fish because they don't make them as constipated and it clouds the water less. But you have to soak them first to get all the air out so they don't ingest air when they eat.

Also, your betta friend might still be getting used to his new place. Commonly referred to as 'New Tank Syndrome'. He'll probably start eating soon.

It also helps if you soak the pellets in a little garlic juice. It helps with their digestion, helps restore fins, and makes the food a little tastier for them. (:
 
My betta's love bloodworms, they get them about 2X a week at most as a treat
 
I feed mine bettamin flakes by tetra they have freezedried brine shrimp in the mix and once a week freezedried bloodworms and a once a week fast to clear out their digestive system has worked for me. I have a betta that has lived almost three years doing this regimen. Good luck!
 
I do not feed new Betta for one or two days. After that, I try crushed flakes, if nothing, then the next day I warm up a few blood worms and dangle/wiggle them for the Betta. If this doesn't work, again I wait 1-2 days and try again. By then, they will at least take one worm or 1-2 flake bits.

Try that and make sure to move worms like they might do if they were alive.
 
Back in the day I was breeding, mine had a huge variety of foods.

Wardley Betta - a pellet food I gave them most mornings.
Marine Master Tropical Fish Flake - they got this once or twice a week, only the older females would eat it though.
Freeze Dried Bloodworms - most ate them, but these were usually a treat.
Frozen Bloodworms - once a week these were given. Soaked in warm water, I always have to be careful using these, as I have a skin reaction to the bacteria in them.
Live Bloodworms - very special treat & they'd get them only when I had plenty in season.
Mosquito lavea - I would cultivate immense numbers of these with my fishless pond. The bettas used to get them 2x a week during Summer, sometimes more.

Other than that, crushed snails & de-winged moths were given to them, along with small cichlid pellets & some other flakes I can't recall the name of. Most of it was eaten. I had a few that ate small maggots too.

My current Betta (I down graded immensely when i didn't have time for them all :() gets mostly his pellet feed, though I've got some shrimp & bloodworms frozen I can probably give him when he's in his new tank.

One day a week he goes without food, just like the ones before him.
 
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