Betta feeding question.

[fishycat]

You could always soak the pellets in water for a lil bit before feeding to him so that its easier for him/her to mulch up, my own fish will take bites at foods too big for them and will keep going at it untill they either squeeze it in or they tear some off. No need to sit and pick out the smallest pellets from a pack : p

True. Was feeding two bettas, so I'd pour out a bunch & just gave little Sephy the smaller ones.

 

[Lillyan]

Even my tiny .75in Betta will eat frozen bloodworms. Just feed less of them. I usually give an adult 3-6 worms. I'm sure 6 is 1 too many, but they are such pigs!

 

[Juzah]

For some reason when ya mentioned the picking out smaller ones, i just imaged you dividing a bag of m&m's with the fish, each prefering specific colours

 

[fishycat]

:laugh: I'm not that anal retentive (yet).

 

[aviva90]

Haha yea. Just picked up the Hikari betta bio-gold baby pellets and he seems happy with those. Gave him 2 and he gobbled them up. Ew shaving worms fishy? :yuck: The things we do for our fishies :

 

[kevinb120]

Mine eats everything BUT betta pellets. I have to watch him as he's a super piggie, and even have to periodically sequester him in a breed-n-show to make sure the corries get bloodworms and the like. The betta will just eat and eat and eat. He also goes bonkers for algae wafers, I have to watch him when they are in there (broken up) so he doesn't eat too much of them either. Both my bettas eat and behave exactly the same(the other betta has uber-fast esepis as mates though so it's easier to control feedings without corries).

For flakes, I use new life Spectrum Optimum H2O flakes, they have garlic in it as well. Every single FW fish I have seen goes nuts for the stuff. Hikari wafers, frozen bloodworms and brine.