Can Bettas Live A Healthy Life On Only Tetrabits Pellets?

[beginner]

Hi Friends,
I need your expert guidance. Can Bettas live a healthy life on only Tetrabits Pellets? Or do they compulsorily need an occasional live feed? Would Bettas kept on a diet of only pellets be more prone to diseases?
Bye,

 

[tetraman]

They will stay alive and live fairly happily on dry foods, but I strongly suggest supplementing their diet with at least frozen foods. Earthworms are easily accesible and make a great treat chopped up. You can get a lot of mosquito larvae from leaving a bucket of water outside during the summer. If available, bloodworms are the best possible live, frozen, or freeze-dried food for bettas because they are midge larvae, and are abundant in the pools and ditches that wild betttas inhabit in the Far East.

 

[PaPeRo]

You can also grow some maggots too. Another good food source is hatching your own brine shrimp.

 

[tetraman]

They aren't too filling though, unless you buy adults at your LFS. ANother good live food to get at your LFS is ghost shrimp. I would ask for the smallest ones possible so they can be eaten, and if they don't then they're nice pets.