Betta Feeding Instructions

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     The correct feed for your Betta is critical in making sure they have a long time. In nature, Betta fish consume on zooplankton, which includes crustaceans, bloodworms and other small animals or insects such as flies, or grasshoppers. Attempt to provide more than one of the choices in this post. It is significantly more healthy for your Betta to get a good amount of variety in his diet. Even if you would rather only provide store bought food, make an effort to mix it up every now and then.

Feeding Bettas - Amount of Food

When providing food to Betta fish, make sure not to overfeed them. Adult Betta fish should be fed no more than one time each day, and Betta fries need to be fed two times per day. Attempt to dispense as much food stuff as he can consume in approximately three minutes. If there is still food remaining after three minutes, it is likely that it will drop to the bottom of the tank and could eventually help to grow bacteria that may hurt your Betta fish.

Once a week you should let your Betta refrain from food. This allows the fish's digestive system a chance to stay healthy and clean itself out. It is alright to leave for a weekend without feeding your Betta, but over 48 hours and you need to either have a friend feed him or get an automatic feeder.

Feeding your Betta - Commercial Food

Most store bought Betta fish food pellets are a combination of mushed up shrimp, fish, wheat flour, mosquito larvae and vitamins. This is the safest and easiest way to feed him. Even though Betta fish prefer food that's alive, you can give them frozen feed like bloodworms (frozen mosquito larvae) and/or brine shrimp. Frozen insects don't contain any bacteria or parasites that can harm your Betta, so will generally be safer than live food.

Betta Feeding Guide - Live food

Live brown worms or mosquito larvae (bloodworms) are excellent live food choices your Betta fish will absolutely enjoy. If feeding your Betta fish live insects, be certain to wash the food before providing it, otherwise your Betta fish can get ill and possibly die. Read Betta Illnesses and Betta Fish Disease Cures for info on diseases your Betta fish can catch and methods to prevent them. You shouldn't ever feed your Betta insects you've caught in your garden, since the pesticides they might have been subject to have the potential to be highly toxic. If you want to get live food, then be careful with the quantity when feeding Betta fish. Even though they will allow frozen food fall to the bottom of the tank, a Betta fish will not stop consuming live food and could even eat himself to death!

Betta fish Feeding Guide - Unusual Circumstances

If you're planning on mating two Betta's, you need to give them richer foods like Grindal or blackworms, fruit flies, brine shrimp, etc.. Be certain to take a look at the Betta mating manual to learn more about their dietary needs as well as additional information on Betta spawning. Adult pre-spawning Bettas can eat as much as four times every day. Newborn Betta fish should eat approximately five days after they are born. You can feed the babies |several times each day. Boiled egg yolk, baby brine shrimp, and infusoria that are made up of small particles are all perfect options.