new female betta picky eater? need help!!

halfmoonplakat

halfmoonplakat

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okay so I bought a young female betta fish at petsmart who seemed very healthy when i took her home she refused to eat anything but freeze-dried bloodwroms. can she live off of these? how can i get her to eat pellet food? is this normal? is it healthy?
thanks so much
 
hi u cant keep her on a bloodworm diet only she will need pellets too wot food did she eat while she was at the petshop??
 
When you give her some freeze-dried food, mix some flakes or some pellets with it. That way, she can try it. If not, try starving her for a couple days and try it. There's a controversy wether freeze-dried food is healthy or not. I don't think it's healthy.
 
ive got a male that wont eat anything but frozen and freeze dried bloodworms, ive tried everything i can think of to get him to take pellets or flakes but he wont touch them. Ive not noticed any harm in feeding him bloodworms.:huh:
 
frogman18 said:
ive got a male that wont eat anything but frozen and freeze dried bloodworms, ive tried everything i can think of to get him to take pellets or flakes but he wont touch them. Ive not noticed any harm in feeding him bloodworms.:huh:
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I just bought a male and he won't touch Hikari pellets, either. I have not heard anything too bad about bloodworms as long as it is bloodworms and something shrimp and the blanched pea a couple of times a week and a no food day.

I have given the betta the bloodwm, the mysis and the pea he's ok. except for the tight space in transit that like the petshop is possibly illness causing. Start with WC and the buffer and then the pea quartered.
Rule of thumb, his stomach is a big as his eye or less.
 
thx for replying so fast!! ill try to feed her a mix of both i guess at least i dont hav 2 return her shes a real beauty, for a petstore betta
 
it took bettabrats wild betta five days to adjust to a new food soo keep up with it an see where ya get
 
I was having the same problem with my new betta. I kept him happy with bloodworms for a few days, to get him to associate me with food. Pretty soon, he started begging at the tank every time he saw me. When that happened, I started giving him pellets instead of bloodworms. At first he refused them, but actually just today finally he tried one and didn't spit it out.
I think he was getting bloodworms at the store, and he wasn't used to eating something so hard as pellets. I think he just had to realize that he could swallow it.
 
hi again Bettas have got to have a variety in their diet - do not just feed the same thing all the time. i give my boy pellets and worms an brine shrimp and its very rare for a betta to wanna eat fish flakes trust me ive tried an so has a few other betta keepers on here. try soakin the pellets an mush them up an dont give up like i said before it can take upto a week for a betta to respond to new food
 
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