What Do You Feed Your Fighting Fish

[Galanta]

I feed mine Atison's Betta Pro and he goes totally nuts over it. Generally everybody feeds them pellets as the main staple. Bloodworms or brine shrimp (live, frozen or freeze dried) as an occasional treat, no more than 1-2 times a week. It's good to skip one day and then feed a cooked pea (shelled and minced into tiny pieces), as bettas can get constipated and the fiber in the pea helps move stuff through the system. Another way to help prevent constipation and overfeeding is to soak the pellets for a few minutes so they expand before they get into the betta's stomach. You can feed a bit and then literally look at his stomach. It should just gently expand and not look bloated. Also, if you can feed smaller portions twice a day instead of all in one go, it might go better too.

But I find that they are each a little individual. I am currently feeding two betta fish (one mine, one someone elses). For both of them I am presoaking the pellets. My betta is totally fine just with the presoaked pellets and I don't have to skip days or feed peas at all. I just skip a feeding when I see he is still full and occasionally feed a pea for fun. On my friend's betta I HAVE to skip a day at least once a week and feed a pea weekly or he gets all "plugged up". And I briefly had one betta (and heard of others) who, once they tasted live worms, simply refused to eat anything else. But don't let him black mail you... The only way for them to get complete nutrition is to eat the pellets.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Bettas!

 

[Forestpisces]

Is he in your main tank?

I'm not being mean or aggresive i'm just asking and trying to give you some sound advise.

 

[drain_bamaged]

He wont get on with guppies, they see them as 'the competition'...and guppies are far to fast for a betta to...erm...'beat up'!!!! keep these guys apart. As for keeping them with Tetras (and in this case im taking specifically with Neon Tetras), when I got Rocky (yes, as in Rocky Balboa!) I took him because the LFS kept him in a tank with other neons, he looked healthy, and because he was already kept with neons, I knew he would be fine in my current set up. SO my advice is to look for a betta kept with neons and if they look healthy, you'll need to make a judgement call on if he will survive/flourish in your tank! and to answer your question, i feed him bloodworms and flakes.

 

[CTlovesKS]

I feed my differnt each day lol... Gives them a good mixture I think...

Hikari betta food
TetraBetta
And something else but cant find it sorry

 

[Just_Another_One]

My 2 boys get and love everything I feed my main tank.

The menu:

Ocean nutrition flake
Tetra tropical crisps
Tetra color bits
HBH betta treat
Hikari micro wafers
Hikari micro pellets
Frozen bloodworms
Freeze dried spirunila brine shrimp

They also have a taste of the pellets I throw in for the bottom feeder crew

Hikari sinking carnavore pellets
Hikari sinking wafers
Hikari algae wafers
OSI shrimp pellets
Wardley spirunila wafers

I guess you can say my fish are spoiled