Why the heck is my betta so childish?

NilsBaees

NilsBaees

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Sep 22, 2007
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He spits out his food!

He is very excited whenever I put food into the tank, but after he eats one or two bites of it he will linger around, snapping up every floating piece and spit it right back out. It gets very messy after a while since his spitting makes the flakes turn into a million more flakes. Does he not like the food? I'm giving him normal tropical flakes, which all my other fish seem to have no problem with. When I feed him Betta Bites or Hikari Micro Wafers, he won't spit. I feed flakes because that is the only thing that my other small fish can see (as far as I can tell, only the bettas I buy can seek out tiny pellets). So does he just not like the taste or is he just doing it for "fun?" :nilly:
 
you could try dropping pellets right in front of his nose and then sprinkle the flakes elsewhere..

i know mine spit food out if it's too big, if they're full, if they swallow some air, or if they don't like it. Though how the heck they can tell if they like it once its in their stomach is beyond me!

what drives me crazy is when they are retarded and blind and don't notice the fluffy little brine floating down past them .. into the gravel.. /sigh
 
I would only feed what he eats..the rest is just a waste....
 
I have come to learn that bettas like blackworms, wich if i am not wrong are some kind of mosquito larvae, in the nature, that's why they sell specially designed food for bettas that look like worms, maybe flakes are to big for the betta. however they sell frozen blackworms and a variety of really inexpensive betta's foods.
 
My first Betta didn't use to like Betta flakes, he would not eat them, or try to eat them and then spit them out. Only to try to eat them again. Now he eagerly follows my finger into the corner, waits for me to distract the neons and danios on the other side with their food, and eats his flakes that I drop near his head. He loves em now.

My other Betta took flakes much more easier and even eats "regular" tropical flakes that I feed the harlies.
 
Teto said:
I have come to learn that bettas like blackworms, wich if i am not wrong are some kind of mosquito larvae, in the nature, that's why they sell specially designed food for bettas that look like worms, maybe flakes are to big for the betta. however they sell frozen blackworms and a variety of really inexpensive betta's foods.
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Blackworms are a true worm, closely related to Tubifex and common earthworms. Bloodworms are a Chironomid midge larvae similar to mosquito larvae.
 
Well I know when I first got my betta I spent quite awhile trying to get him to eat flake food.. he would always eat about 1% of the flakes and spit out the rest. I heard some people have had their betta eat the flakes after having nothing else to eat for awhile, but my betta never warmed up to them.
now I just feed him freez dried bloodworm and some little betta pellets, he can't seem to get enough of that stuff :D
 
I've had a lot of bettas and they all seem to have a preference. Some prefer pellets, some flakes, some both. Some like worms, some don't. Some like shrimp, sompe don't.

Just try somethign else until you find that gets him to eat. first place to start would be the pelles.
 
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