What betta type of food?

betta lover · Member Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 53 Location: New York

What type of betta food do you guys recamend? I feed my betta Amythis betta bits and tropical flacks. What other types of betta food are good for bettas?

erin · Member Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 81 Location: california

I have never heard of tropical flacks? what do they look like?
.... my bettas like the lil pellets I give them flakes once in a while but I dont think they like it that much?
i wonder if they would eat lettuce?

betta lover · Member Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 53 Location: New York

I feed him this brand of Flakes

erin · Member Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 81 Location: california

I cant see the photo Crying or Very sad

i tried right clicking but it didn't work.

betta lover · Member Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 53 Location: New York

Somethings wrong with the picture right now. Laughing

grnlemonade · Super Senior Member Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 1027

one type of food that bettas absolutely love are bloodworms. you could go buy a container of freezedried ones.

erin · Member Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 81 Location: california

I tried that and they would sink fast and then my lil guy couldn't eat it. Crying or Very sad

thats why i feed him pellets.

grnlemonade · Super Senior Member Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 1027

oh, alrite....well i do know that these are only supposed to be sued as treat, but if they are available maybe try live brine shrimp every once in a while. all my fish love chasing after live brine.

betta lover · Member Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 53 Location: New York

How much are brine, and do betta's eat them alive?

grnlemonade · Super Senior Member Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 1027

well, at my LFS live brine shrimp is about 1 dollar per 2 tablespoons....seems like a small amount, but tehy last for days even a week.... all fish that i have ever owned including beta will eat live brine shrimp, plus its cool watching them chase after the little guys.....you may know live brine shrimp as "sea monkeys".

betta lover · Member Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 53 Location: New York

That sounds like one of those Bunny and Clid shows where they try to get away from the cops. This I gota see.

grnlemonade · Super Senior Member Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 1027

ok, a good idea is to not put them all in at once, have them in a different container such as a spare plastic bowl....also, when you dump them in watch the water current....sometimes if its too strong, they will be s**k up into the filter....if this happens, jsut turn off the filter until they are done feeding otherwise its a waste of money. those little guys could never compete with the filters currents.

betta lover · Member Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 53 Location: New York

My beta doesn't have a filtter in his tank.

grnlemonade · Super Senior Member Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 1027

oh alrite....yea, then just get a few....what i do is some of them in a dixie cup then dump that into the water.

t_chelle16 · Moderator Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 3436

My bettas get HBH Betta Bites (3 pellets in the morning & 3 in the evening). I do have some frozen blood worms, but I'm a little allergic to them so I don't use them very often.

-Chelle

M_wm · Senior Member Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 613

My betta used to love blood worms, fruit flys, and betta pellets Your the best

I want another betta now

t_chelle16 · Moderator Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 3436

Oh, and in the summer, sometimes I'll leave a dish of water sitting outside. After a couple days it has some nice, yummy mosquito larvae.

-Chelle