bettabutterfly81

I am hearing now that the Top Fin Betta Bits are being recalled? I have been using these for 2 months now! This makes me so mad! My fish seem ok...hopefully. I actually came on here to ask about some good betta food when I found out that the current food I am using is being recalled anyway. So heres the story I have 5 betta. My first one I got 2 months ago and he has been eating these bits and he likes them. My 2nd betta I got a month ago and he doesn't really like these but he will eat them. Now I have 3 new betta's (all crowntails) and they do not like it all. So I was wondering what kinda betta food do ppl here use with success. Also how often can you feed freeze-dried bloodworms and how many of the tiny worms do you give them at a time? One last thing.... Is it normal for them to balk at the worms at first? Thanks!

Krissy

COBettaCouple

Ok.. are you ready for our list of foods that our bettas get? we have: freeze-dried bloodworms, frozen bloodworms, freeze-dried daphnia, vitamin pellets, betta pellets, color pellets, betta flakes, soft pellets with krill in them.. we also regularly feed them frozen peas, thawed and peeled.

Our feeding schedule for the bettas is that they get fed when we have breakfast and dinner (and they know it. ). each feeding, they get 3 pellets, bloodworms or the equivalent flakes or 3 pellet-sized pieces of the pea.

For breakfast: mon they get pea pieces, tues - friday they get vitamin pellets (except our finicky Sora), sat they get bloodworms.
For dinner: mon they get pea pieces, sat they get bloodworms and tues-friday we cycle through the other foods.
Sunday they get fasted. It's also good to give them a little time between pieces when feeding (it makes it a good time to talk to them and enjoy watching their food-antics). 1 piece at a time - to answer one of your questions.

Basically all of this is to aid in digestion and nutrition for them and prevent constipation. Only Sora is finicky and will only eat daphnia, bloodworms and peas, so he's on a different schedule, but we balance his diet with those 3 foods so that he doesn't get constipation.

The frozen bloodworms are thawed by putting them in a sealable container with room temp. distilled or treated tap water. The frozen peas are thawed with about 50 seconds in the microwave, then they're easy to peel and tear into little pieces. Bettas also like an occasional treat of fruit and it varies from betta to betta what fruit, but all of ours were happy with cantaloupe.

Some balk at worms (or other new foods) at first, some actually don't eat them.. they have unique characters and personalities so you can find all kinds of food likes/dislikes with them.

bettabutterfly81

Thanks for the info..

Today I went out and bought the Hakiri Baby Bits. It said on the package that it could take up to 5 days for the betta's to take to the new food but to my suprise all 5 of my betta's ate them! Even the new one that I just got yesterday.(usually it takes a few days for them to start eating when they are new) Also all 5 of them gobbled up the bloodworms as well. I am defiantly going to stick with the Hakiri brand food even though you don't get very much in the package. I am also going to try the frozen peas. Again thanks for the reply.

5 betta's (3 crowntails+2 veiltails) 4 goldfish(2 ryukins,1 Fantail,1 Black moor)

-Bobo -Goldie
-Ozzy -Mr. Sprinkles
-Toodles -Isaiah
-Steve -Jules
-Sammy

Krissy

COBettaCouple

That's excellent! A lot of times Bettas will be too stressed to eat after the change of coming to their tank, but most of ours have eaten right away. The Hikari foods are excellent and the baby bits will be a good food for them. i don't mind smaller containers of food since we generally only keep food about 6 months before replacing it.