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Stinna
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I got my plakat betta fish (male), Pluto, a two weeks ago. He lives in a planted 23 L (or 6 gal) tank with a tiger nerite snail and within the first couple of days he'd already started to build a bubble nest, so I'm pretty certain he's in good health.
So here's the issue: My spoiled little fishy will only eat food that I give to him from my finger. It's no problem for me to sit down and do this every day - in all honesty, I think it's a fun way to interact with him and it means I'm able to control how much food he eats in a day quite easily. However, I'm worried about getting other people to take care of him, if I go on vacation, both because I don't really want other people sticking their fingers in my fish tanks, but also because I don't think many of my friends and family members would actually want to do it. So does anyone know how I can get Pluto accustomed to eating "floating foods"? Maybe getting some live food? He doesn't seem to care for the flakes I presented to him at first, but I currently feed him dried shrimp and frozen bloodworms and am currently searching the web for some nice pellets, since he doesn't want the flakes.
Thanks in advance for the help!
So here's the issue: My spoiled little fishy will only eat food that I give to him from my finger. It's no problem for me to sit down and do this every day - in all honesty, I think it's a fun way to interact with him and it means I'm able to control how much food he eats in a day quite easily. However, I'm worried about getting other people to take care of him, if I go on vacation, both because I don't really want other people sticking their fingers in my fish tanks, but also because I don't think many of my friends and family members would actually want to do it. So does anyone know how I can get Pluto accustomed to eating "floating foods"? Maybe getting some live food? He doesn't seem to care for the flakes I presented to him at first, but I currently feed him dried shrimp and frozen bloodworms and am currently searching the web for some nice pellets, since he doesn't want the flakes.
Thanks in advance for the help!