females..

[cutecotton]

i know this sounds like a stupid question, but i just got my first 3 female bettas and i've tried to feed them betta pellets...they'd go after it with their life, swallow it and then a few seconds later spit it back out, it seems like these guys are too tiny to swallow the whole pellet.

so instead i crushed fish flakes to pieces and tried giving them back...i didn't get any interst back at all strange fish...they look hungry lol

 

[endparenthesis]

Are they those huge pellets? My friend had the same problem. The pellets may have to soften in the water first. Or you could just get the smaller Hikari pellets.

 

[Max]

maybe froxen brine shrimp, dont know anyfish that does not eat it, evan my guppys with eat the whole block, pigs, i dont have to break it or antying they just rip it off

 

[jacblades]

ive never seen a betta that didnt like bloodworms.

 

[kgrehm]

If i were you, i feed my bettas brine shrimp and bloodworms. An occastion tetramin for bettas but they only eat that once in a blue moon. Wanted to get cultures but after my faliures at trying to breed i will get more once i can try and get younger bettas or condition mine again.

 

[steppy104]

sounds like the same problem i'm having....i bought this female, which is REAL small, and when i feed her the betta pellets, she goes after them like she wants them, and trys her hardest to eat them....but can't fit them all the way in her mouth! so i have to crush some blood worms and feed those to her. she likes them, and they're softer, but i have that stuff for my other betta, who won't eat anything else. so i don't want to spoil her to the point where she won't eat anything, but i haven't got any other food that she wants!