Tips For Taking Care Of Baby Bettas From Petco.

I will be going to Petco today to buy 4 bettas. I might buy a baby betta, but I have no knowledge of them. I am aware they should be fed different foods, which makes me not want to get a baby betta. Would you all reccomend it? Thanks.

 

I find the babies no harder to care for then the adults. A good quality flake or micro pellet food is about the only difference.

 

I find the babies no harder to care for then the adults. A good quality flake or micro pellet food is about the only difference.

do I crush the pellets? and or soak them?

 

As long as they fit in their mouths its fine if not crush them some.

 

micro pellets are usually small enough for baby bettas mouths but you can also feed them flakes until they are big enough to eat pellets

 

I did that once. I will say that my two "baby bettas" turned out quite small when they stopped growing. I think I cut back on feeding much too soon - I was only doing baby brine shrimp + crushed pellets and flakes four times a day for the first 3-4 weeks, and I cut back sharply after that. If I'd kept going for another month I think they would have attained a more normal size. They turned out healthy in the end though, just really really small.

Using a programmable autofeeder might help with frequent, regular feedings.

EDIT: I was also water changing at least every other day to keep water quality very high despite heavy feeding.

 

Daily water changes and high protein foods!

 

I definitely will buy a baby betta now, I will just try to feed it reg pellets, and then crush them if that doesn't work.

 

I definitely will buy a baby betta now, I will just try to feed it reg pellets, and then crush them if that doesn't work.

Baby bettas need many water changes and high protein foods for best results.

 

If I were you, I'd also set up a brine shrimp hatchery to get them a lot of protein, and use that for at least half their feedings. And make sure that the pellets you use are high in protein. And of course, with heavy feedings come water changes that should be at least every other day or so, even if you have a cycled filter in with them (I didn't and it made water changes have to be all the more frequent, so learn from my mistake that your life and their lives would be better with a cycled sponge filter). I found raising the baby bettas to be a bit more difficult than livebearer fry, so just keep that in mind. With that said, good luck!

 

If I were you, I'd also set up a brine shrimp hatchery to get them a lot of protein, and use that for at least half their feedings. And make sure that the pellets you use are high in protein. And of course, with heavy feedings come water changes that should be at least every other day or so, even if you have a cycled filter in with them (I didn't and it made water changes have to be all the more frequent, so learn from my mistake that your life and their lives would be better with a cycled sponge filter). I found raising the baby bettas to be a bit more difficult than livebearer fry, so just keep that in mind. With that said, good luck!

That's the thing, I don't wanna like make hatcheries. Can I just cut up blood worms into smaller pieces and soak them? I decided not to get a baby betta, but it was mislabeled as a crowntail female, in which looks like a baby betta so I'm not sure yet. I did crush up a pellet and it ate it tho.

 

Baby bettas are easy to care for, IMO. But there's no way to tell what tail type you'll get. Most of mine have been veiltails.

 

She could just be small. To be fair, the "baby" bettas are just young juveniles rather than fry, so your fish could also just be a tad younger than the usual age where females are sold. As long as she can eat the bloodworm pieces it should be fine, she'll definitely benefit from the protein regardless of age. Since she hasn't been labeled "baby" she's probably old enough that it's not too important to feed heavily, but fish do tend to grow larger and faster when fed a bit heavier for the earlier parts of their lives, it's common practice with grooming high-quality goldfish. So if you want her to reach max size then regular bloodworms definitely won't hurt. If you don't care about her size, then feed her what and how you like and she'll be fine.