Feeding question

[jazzx101]

My question's pretty simple. What have you had good experience with feeding bettas?

I have Wardley's Betta Food currently, the little brown balls. He keeps pulling them into his mouth, but he spits them back out pretty much intact. I've also fed him a few bloodworms which he'll eat from my fingers, but I don't believe that this is good as the -only- source of food.

Anyone have any better experiences with HBH betta food? Or think the Wardley isn't that good? Just wondering if it's just my fish.

 

[White Whale]

Bloodworms (freeze-dried or frozen) and freeze-dried red grubs. My bettas spit everything else out.

 

[jazzx101]

How many worms do you feed one betta?

 

[White Whale]

3 worms each feeding
1 to 2 feedings a day

 

[wuvmybetta]

Wardley's are huge, this could be why he's spitting them out, try crushing them. You may also want to try Hikari Bio-gold, that's the only pellet I feed mine, they're full of vitamins and I've never had a betta turn them down.

Mine eat, pellets for breakfast, about 10-12 a piece. Then every other evening they get either frozen bloodworms (also hikari) live brine, frozen krill, or this crazy frozen mix I buy from my lfs that has beef heart,fresh fish, chicken liver, garlic ,spinach and some other stuff in it

 

[White Whale]

That crazy mix sounds good enough to eat.

 

[wuvmybetta]

it smells good enough to eat too , my lfs keeper is asian and he cooks delicious stuff, him and his cousin (the owner) make the "crazy mix"

I was joking with him the other day about how good it smells, he said
"I know, we talk about cooking ramen noodles and just eating the fish food on top,that would be delicious"



But anyway....I bought it for my cichlids and the bettas all went so crazy for it (eating the spinach too!) that it's now part of their regular diet

 

[jazzx101]

Hey, thanks for all the advice..I went out today and got a small package of Hikari Bio-Gold. He isn't really accepting them yet, still spitting them out, but I figure it'll take a day or two before he really accepts them as food. Either way, he's still eating bloodworms and he even enjoys a flake or two of my danios's food. Sure sends them into a huge panic when that big fish is looming under their dinner. But he won't eat that much, and he eats too slowly to take that much of a portion of it.

 

[Inchworm]

...I was joking with him the other day about how good it smells, he said
"I know, we talk about cooking ramen noodles and just eating the fish food on top,that would be delicious"

Hi Jazzx101

The bettas would probably like that, too. They'd think the noodles were worms! (one for me, one for the fish....)

My Ruby eats lots and lots of bloodworms because he lives with corys I'm raising for breeding. He also eats goldfish granules which I feed them because they sink easily and freeze dried tubiflex worms.

 

[lizard]

Mine eat, pellets for breakfast, about 10-12 a piece. Then every other evening they get either frozen bloodworms (also hikari) live brine, frozen krill, or this crazy frozen mix I buy from my lfs that has beef heart,fresh fish, chicken liver, garlic ,spinach and some other stuff in it

Ten to twelve pellets each!!! Wow! If I fed my Bettas that much they would get FAT! Mine get two or three pellets in the morning and one or two at night. Spiderman gets a pellet in the morning and scavenges a lot more from what I feed the other fish. He even goes to the bottom and eats algae wafers

I feed the Hikari Betta BioGold (or whatever they are...I don't have them in front of me). They get bloodworms sometimes or perhaps a few tubifix worms.

Pamela
aka Lizard

 

[White Whale]

The betta breeder I spoke with said she feeds her purebreed HM bettas TetraCichlid Mini Granules (for small cichlids). So I decided to give it a whirl. I was pretty surprised they ALL took to it immediately! Either that or the one-time-a-day feeding took over.

 

[Where the river goes]

Three days a week they get Bio Blend, 3-4 pellets. They also get HBH Betta Bites three days a week, 4-8 pellets, usually for dinner. The day they get the betta bites they get bloodworms for breakfast, they get 1 minute to gorge themselve on bloodworms. 1 day a week they go with no feeding.

I fed them a piece of pea once..with interesting results lol. They ate the first piece vigorously so I dropped in a second piece. Duff backed away from it and watched it sink to the bottom lol. Homer flared at it as it sank, then hovered over it flaring some more

 

[poindexter]

Isnt 10-12 pellets a lot?? i feed betta bio gold pellets and i only give about 3-4 pellets twice a day. Am I depriving my bettas??
Sometimes i feed them tetra freeze dried blood worms, but to be honest they dont really love them, like they dont go crazy over them how i hear other pplz bettas do. ahh well....ok back to the main point here, am i starving my bettas?!?!
~dEx

 

[Inchworm]

Hi poindexter

I like to feed my fish all they want to eat. If yours are still hungry after you feed them, just give them more. Just take care that uneaten food does not accumulate on the bottom of the tank.

 

[phishphood]

I feed mine Tetra fresh delica, don't know if you can get that in USA tho. There are 3 different types whole bloodworms, daphnia, brineshrimp. Mine won't eat anything else apart from live food but I can't get that everyday so they have to have the next best thing. They would eat it till they exploded if I gave them half a chance!