My Little Piggy

HI Everyone,

I'm wondering if I'm feeding Phoenix enough. He's a small Betta (I think he's a baby) and he's really active. He gets 3 Betta Bits (Top Fin - a Petsmart brand) every 12 hours and 2 times a week I substitute the 2nd daily feeding with a frozen blood worm.

Also, I would love to know if there are any other foods that will tickle his tummy.

Thanks in advance!

 

if you feed bloodworms for a day, only feed bloodworms. Are they freeze-dried or fresh? If they're freeze-dried, make sure to pre-soak them in some tank water. As for pellets, my betta loves Omega One Buffet pellets(they have a turquoise cap) and I also feed HikarI Bio-gold for some variety(I found this brand for the best price at Walmart)

Just out of curiosity, what water conditioner do you use?

 

HI PythonTheBetta! The bloodworms are frozen and I thaw in the cassette, in tank water, before giving him only one. I use Prime and should mention we are going into week 3 of cycling, still not there. I also used Stability for the 7 days and that finished 2 weeks ago. If he's a baby, he's not growing and always hungry, hence my concern. I will definitely get the pellets you mentioned. Thank you!

 

He's not a baby, he's a young adult. How big are the pellets you are feeling? I supplement my bettas with frozen brine shrimp, bloodworms, flightless fruit flies, and mosquito larvae.

 

Flowingfins the pellets are ex-small and thanks for the other food choices, I had no idea about flightless fruit flies, and mosquito larvae!

 

Bettas love and prefer live foods, bloodworms, for young adults and adults larger brineshrimp work best, white worms get gobbled up with glee by these guys too and are a free healthy food once you get your 1st culture which is cheap, they breed like crazy so you can feed many fish.

Either way you go, offer only enough as his stomach is very small, about the size of his eye. Be careful not to overfeed as it can lead to bloating, constipation and digestive issues which can lead to swim bladder disorder, though most common with pellet and flake foods take caution regardless.


P.S. Bloodworms are the larval stage of skeeters so be careful when using live ones that he eats all of them, orherwise your breeding skeeters too lol. They are very easy to culture in the spring thru late summer but I prefer frozen bloodworms as caught ones can have diseases and parasites.