Betta Not Eating!

[BettaGardener]

My bettas have never had problems with freeze-dried bloodworms... Betta pellets, however, always seem to plug them up. Freeze-dried foods in general can constipate your fishies if you overfeed... They will absorb and swell up with water once the betta eats them.

Freeze-dried bloodworms soften up pretty quickly in water if you want to soak them for a few minutes before feeding.

With frozen foods and live foods you run the risk of introducing some nasty pathogens into your betta's tank... When I introduced frozen foods, within weeks over half of my bettas had to be moved to hospital tanks, some recovered, some did not.

I just stick with freeze-dried food, but a variety... daphia, baby brine shrimp, bloodworms, and tubiflex worms. No problems.

 

[Jessica13]

My bettas eat anything.. Of course, they dont have a choice, they have what they're given or they go hungry

I've found the favourite to be live brinshrimp, nice big juicy ones They always go down well!! I usually have some 'growing' for my other fish so i stick some in for the bettas every couple of weeks as a treat. They tend to get flake or bloodworms daily though, nothing exciting!!

Ooh, my bettas in my community tank did enjoy a nice chew of some octopus too!!

 

[Rynoah]

My bettas have never had problems with freeze-dried bloodworms... Betta pellets, however, always seem to plug them up. Freeze-dried foods in general can constipate your fishies if you overfeed... They will absorb and swell up with water once the betta eats them.

Freeze-dried bloodworms soften up pretty quickly in water if you want to soak them for a few minutes before feeding.

With frozen foods and live foods you run the risk of introducing some nasty pathogens into your betta's tank... When I introduced frozen foods, within weeks over half of my bettas had to be moved to hospital tanks, some recovered, some did not.

I just stick with freeze-dried food, but a variety... daphia, baby brine shrimp, bloodworms, and tubiflex worms. No problems.

Thanks very much! I'll soak them first, then. I gave him a few more again today and he ate them, so I'm taking it as a good sign. He also took a couple of mini-pellets. I guess he was either still enjoying the spaces, or he finally realized that he won't get anything else.