Betta (Fighter Fish) Won't Eat

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Hey,

I bought a Betta yesterday at the garden centre and he's seems to have settled into the tank OK, But he just won't eat!?

I tried feeding him some crushed cichlid pellet's that my brother feeds his Parot Fish and he just doesn't touch them, It's almost as if he can't find the food!?

What do this type of fish usually prefer?

Anyhelp very much appreciated....


Cheers

Dan
 
Its not that he wont eat Dan, he cant get to it before your Danios and platys have ate the lot :)
 
It is common for fish to not eat for short periods after buying them. They're stressed out.

Bettas should be fed betta pellets. Mine seem to prefer the smaller pellets made by wardely (though one of mine used to love their larger ones).

Also, try enticing him to eat with frozen bloodworms. They will also eat daphnia, brineshrimp, skinned peas occasionally, very finely diced frozen krill.
 
My bettas have always started with the freeze dried bloodworms. They seem to love these. As time goes by I have been able to introduce both betta flakes by Tetra and Wardley's Betta Pellets. A varied diet is best. Also frozen foods work well. Frozen blood worm or brine shrimp are a good treat.
 
Thanks!!

I'll start feeding him Betta pellets, I'll get him some tommorow from the LFS. I'll also give him some frozen bloodworms that me brother feeds his Parot Fish.

Cheers for the help, Any more general advice about the fish then please keep it coming!!!

Thanks...

Dan
 
What sort of setup do you have for the little guy? They really need a minimum of 1 gallon or 4 litres to truely move around and show how pretty they are. The bigger the tank the better.
 
Hey there!!

Yeah, the tank Is a 15 Gallon US and roughly 12.5 Gallon british. The fish does like to move alot, But most times he just hides in between the Water-Sprite!!!



Thank-you

Dan
 
Google is your friend:

" It's here that the most commonly met differences occur. At one time, the British gallon differed depending on what you were measuring, and where you were measuring it. But, by the 19th century, two definitions had survived: the Queen Anne (or Wine) gallon, which was 231 cubic inches, and the Winchester (or Ale) gallon, of 282 cu in.

In 1824, the British abandoned both the Ale and the Wine gallons in favour of the Imperial gallon, based on the volume of 10 pounds of water (which works out at 277.41945 cu in). America, by this time, had already standardised on the Wine Gallon of 231 cubic inches (strictly speaking, this was defined as the volume of a cylinder 6 inches long and 7 inches in diameter, or 230.9070 cubic inches).

The result is that the US gallon is 83.267% of the British gallon. In more usable figures, the British gallon is about a fifth greater than the US gallon, and the US gallon is about 5/6 of the British gallon (or a little under 7 British pints)"
http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/measures1.htm
 
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