Betta Food

[strawberry19]

What do you feed your bettas, flakes or pellets?

 

[Durbkat]

Pellets from Hikari betta food or HBH or you can get granules from tetramin. Also bettas like blood worms either frozen or live whichever you think you can stomach the most. Do you have a betta yet?

 

[thelastbetta]

I feed mine three hikari pellets every morning. Then every friday they each get three bloodworms each.

 

[RandomWiktor]

Flakes are generally a poor choice for any fish. They tend to cause constipation and swim bladder disorders as they are rough on the GI and generally involve gulping a lot of air.
Frozen or live blood worms, brine shrimp, fruit flies etc. are good to suppliment the diet and add variety. Pellets should be the staple.

 

[Ethos]

Every night I give my bettas a pinch of bloodworms.
Never fed them anything else.

 

[thelastbetta]

Why not Ethos?

I thought they needed more protein than just bloodworms.

 

[Ethos]

Why?
Why not?

I'd rather not spend more money than I half to to keep my bettas healthy, and my bettas show no signs of illness.

 

[afireinside]

Hehe, some of my bettas are picky eaters:
Marco and Polo:
Aqua Tech Pellets

My Females:
Anything

My other males:
Hikari Freeze-Dried Bloodworms

All my males are picky, my females aren't. Kinda wierd, eh?

 

[RandomWiktor]

Eh. One source of food is never healthy for any animal; variety is important to fufilling all of an animal's dietary needs. The pellets have the minimums a betta needs for survival, but blood worms, fruit flies, brine shrimp, and other live foods offer nutritional qualities that can't be packaged so easily.
If you think about it, no carnivore consistently eats the same thing day in and day out. I'd think that for them, varied protein sources would be very important. I've never heard of feeding an all-bloodworms diet, and maybe it works, but it just doesn't ring of safety in my mind based on the principles of animal nutrition.
If they're that cheap, I'm guessing they're freeze dried blood worms? If so, that can be dangerous; it can cause swimbladder problems, and constipation. I suppose soaking first might help.
The Petco near my feeds only freeze dried bloodworms; half of their bettas have swim bladder problems, they're floating all over the cup. And none of them look healthy.

 

[thelastbetta]

I would have thought bloodworms cost more then a small thing of food. Bloodworms here cost about 5$ while a pack of hikari food only costs 3, sometimes 4$, if that. But eh ok.

 

[Silvani]

I think if you chose to feed them just one thing, that just pellets would be safer. While I totally agree that variety is the healthiest, at least if its just pellets they are made to have all the essential things a betta needs.

If money is the problem, then I would just change what it is you’re investing your money in.

I’ve always thought of pellets as the stable food and blood worms as a treat.

 

[ezrock]

mine get mostly pellets. Every day or so, they get some freeze-dried bloodworms. Once in awhile they get a dash of flakes for added variety. Some of them don't eat the flakes though. I just bought a whiteworm culture so they'll start getting whiteworms as treats and more when conditioning once the culture is booming!

-Ian

 

[OohFeeshy]

Pellets mainly now, but they all eat flake, andthey get bloodworms whenever I remember. The trouble is I'm not allowed to keep frozen food, so I have to rely on Tetra Delica

 

[OhMyDog]

Mine get hikari pellets, frozen bloodworms and the occasional freeze dried brine shrimp.

 

[Booboo puppy]

Hikari pellets daily, ocassional bloodworm supplements, and the females get baby flakes too since the teeny tiny female has trouble with the pellets (they tend to act like ballast and pull her up to the surface when she's trying to eat).