Flakes

[Night61]

as those of you know at this point i house three females living in a 26 gallon community tank with guppies.
i have had difficulty keeping the bettas from munching on the flaked food as well as any pellets they can. peach the chuncky one is most guilty of this and so is thera. Siren usually hangs on the lower during lunch time and eats primly flakes and doesn't seem any worse for where.

my question is seeing how these girls are indiscriminate about there food, is there a kind of flakes that will be good for the bettas as well as the tropical s like the guppies? so all are getting a balanced diet?

 

[Syphoniera]

Speaking as One Who Knows Nothing, if you're feeding a variety of foods and they're all of good quality, I really shouldn't think there'd be a problem with them eating flakes part of the time.
I was very happy recently to find and buy a large container of Omega One First Flakes, something I'd been looking for, for some time.
I don't know if you've ever tried Omega One, but it disappeared a couple of years ago from the local LFS's I manage to get to.
Grain flour doesn't appear until the 6th ingredient; kelp is further down, but my bettas get spirulina in their Hikari Micro Wafers, and they do get a specific betta flake, NutraFin Betta Max, as well as bloodworms and peas, so variety throughout the week.
They weren't big on the shrimp flakes (fussy eaters, don't like lots of cheaper foods) the Omega One replaced, but everybody seems to love this stuff..
I do have Kent betta pellets, but tend to forget to soak them in time for feeding - pellets don't have a monopoly on nutrition, but too many unsoaked pellets can contribute to constipation, especially in less active bettas, as one of mine is, so I'm personally not big on feeding pellets too ofen (the Micro Wafers hardly being pellets at all) very often, although many expeienced people do.
I'm more concerned with trying to find foods that contain more real fish food, rather than a higher level of grain which is not a suitable food for fish.
I really want to try to get live foods, especially blackworms, (keep running low on funds,) but I would like to shift a good part of their diet to such fresh foods, and plan to set up a baby brine shrimp hatchery (if they can see and catch the little beggers) once the Great Tank Shuffle ( all is eternal pandemonium) around my room is completed and the new stand (I hope I'm still getting) is up.

But, obviously, I'm no expert - that's just my thoughts on the subject, for what they're worth.
You can try feeding your fish at two different ends, but trying to stop a betta from eating something in his/her tank makes one dizzy just thinking about it.

 

[electric yellow]

I thought about my PK eating all the foods not to long ago and he is now on a feeding routine of ground up cichlid food. He doesnt eat flakes and coz he is in with 2 corcys and plecs he loes eating what they eat.

 

[Night61]

my girls are indiscriminate. they eat anything that i put in the tank.

 

[electric yellow]

Yeah, i would say Shimmer my PK does to. I usually put his floating food in first and then the sinking pellets for the corys and plecs.

 

[nosoup4you]

A good quality flake isn't going to hurt them as long as a variety of other foods are offered.

 

[Nikkig85]

My betta used to eat flakes, live, frozen and and was quite partial to garden peas! i put the peas in there for the pleco but he had no chane against the pig that was my betta! my only experience with bettas is that they like there food. i don't know if that is the case with all bettas but it was wuth mine.