Feeding

[Valyrian]

How much do you guys feed your bettas? Is 4 pellets every day a good amount?

 

[BettaMomma]

Should be just fine.
Do you feed them anything else besides that? It's good (and fun for them!) to give them a variety.

Mine all get 3-4 pellets in the morning, and then I have frozen blood worms, brine shrimp (which they all HATE so my snail gets it now), daphnia and peas which I rotate in every here and there. They all love everything except the shrimp. EDIT - on the nights when they don't get worms or anything else, they get another 3-4 pellets.

I give them bloodworms mostly about every 2nd or 3rd evening, followed up by peas. I sprinkle a little bit of daphnia, too, here and there. They pretty much eat all of whatever I give them.

I only give them a couple of pellets one day each week to give their tummies a bit of a break, but that's not totally necessary.

 

[3fsh]

I think it really depends on the size of the betta. My smallest betta usually gets about 6 pellets per day (3 in the morning, 3 in the evening). But my largest betta who is approaching 2in gets 8 pellets every day (4 in the morning and 4 in the evening). Bettamomma has a good point.... it is very healthy to vary their diets a little by replacing a meal with bloodworms or another treat every now and then.

 

[OrkyBetta]

I'm such a nerd, I worked out an entire feeding schedule for my bettas. I give my bettas 4 pellets a day, 2 in morning 2 at night. Thursdays I fast them, or maybe only give them a pellet, friday they get peas, saturday frozen brine shrimp and sunday bloodworms. On the days they get the frozen foods, they also get a pellet at night.

 

[MegTheFish]

4 pellets every other day, weekend they get treats (frozen bloodworms or freeze-dried bloodworms) and the guys that like flakes get them a couple times a week, too. And about every 1-2 weeks they get peas. I've tried frozen brineshrimp and freeze-dried tubifex worms, they didn't like neither.
The females in the 10 gallon just get what everybody else gets; flakes, frozen/freeze-dried bloodworms, peas, shrimp pellets, algea wafers and betta pellets.

 

[BettaMomma]

I'm such a nerd, I worked out an entire feeding schedule for my bettas.

 

[Saucy]

I'm such a nerd, I worked out an entire feeding schedule for my bettas.

Exactly what I was thinking! That's hilarious and so cute at the same time.

 

[Valyrian]

I've got some freeze dried daphnia that I feed to my other fish. Would this be good to feed to my betta also?

Also, about the peas, do I get fresh peas? How should I prepare them?

 

[MegTheFish]

The freeze dried daphnia would be fine, don't feed it too much though, as feeze-dried foods are like junk-food for them, not very healthy. The only freeze-dried treat my guys like is the bloodworms.

With the peas, I use the frozen ones, and I pop them in the microwave (in a cup of water) and when they are defrosted I pop the skins off and feed them to my boys. I brake them into tiny bite-sized pieces, also. They only eat about 1 1/2 peas all together.