Betta Won't Eat Blood Worms

[fivestarsellers1]

I use tetra Freeze dried blood worms and my betta won't eat them.

Should I cut them into smaller pieces?

He does attempt to eat them once in a while usally just letting them float away and he swims in the opposite direction!

What other types of food should I use,

I feed him betta pelts everyday, but i would like a varied died.

 

[iBetta]

One of my males doesn't like freeze dried bloodworms either.
I even tried cutting them into tiny pieces to make them look like the betta pellets and that didn't work.
You could try feeding him some frozen foods like brine shrimp, maybe he will accept frozen bloodworms too..

 

[Cazgar]

Mine quite like flakes, & I give them brine shrimp a couple of times a week.
I have seen my red male peck at the algae wafers I put in for the shrimp

 

[sheffieldlad]

Mine wasn't keen on flakes to begin with but now he goes crazy for them.
It may be that he hasn't seen them before.
I'm sure he'll come around to them eventually.

 

[fivestarsellers1]

Yes I get the feeling that betta's from Pet shops that are kept in bowls are unacustom to new foods. I mean they arnt wild they only know what food is from what they have been feed since birth.

Anything else weird u feed your bettas? lol

 

[Beth_Laubenthal]

Anything else weird u feed your bettas? lol

My fish get frozen brine shrimp, daphina, sometimes bits of raw meat that I feed my cats (I got an okay from the aquarium dealer), and sometimes frozen bloodworms. I am currently in the process of trying to source more raw variety. I don't feed pellet or flake. My betta refuses them and upon closer look, I realized it was not a natural food.

 

[blinky000]

To be honest, my bettas won't eat bloodworm unless they're live. Even the pastes get mixed reactions. And I haven't had a single one that would eat freeze dried ones. They'd taste it, spit it out and look at me the whole time as if to imply I was trying to poison them I'm not sure how much nutritional benefit there is in freeze dried bloodworms either. Come summer you could cultivate your own mosquito larvae. That's the staple diet for my guys when it's available and they LOVE it. Natural, balanced and free. Can't get any better than that!