Greedy Betta...

[andyw823]

I have 4 female Bettas in my community tank and are doing great! However one will not stop eating. She will eat the pellets i put in for the clown loaches. Wouldnt be so bad if she swollowed just one but she eats them in 3s and 4s. The pellets are slightly bigger than her mough but somehow she manages to swollow them! I also put peas in frm time to time for the BN plecs, she will bite a big chunk of one and swollow that aswell. She is getting very large, how can i stop here from eating so much?

 

[Ethos]

Net her momentarily untill the plec have eaten. Or just seperate her somehow, thats really the only way I can think of..

 

[andyw823]

Net her momentarily untill the plec have eaten. Or just seperate her somehow, thats really the only way I can think of..

Thats what i thought but i dont want to be stressing her out every day.

 

[Mr.September15]

Then you can buy another female betta and then put that one in another tank. But if you love her, you will net her, because she's going to get sick if you feed her too much. "Overfeeding"

 

[thelastbetta]

Just use a cup or something and scoop her out of the water with it, nets tend to cause a lot of stress because it touches their body while just being scooped up isn't that big of a deal because their body isn't touched or anything.

 

[andyw823]

I have a large net so when feedind the bottom feeders i shall be doing a bit of fishing!

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I have 4 female Bettas in my community tank and are doing great! However one will not stop eating. She will eat the pellets i put in for the clown loaches. Wouldnt be so bad if she swollowed just one but she eats them in 3s and 4s. The pellets are slightly bigger than her mough but somehow she manages to swollow them! I also put peas in frm time to time for the BN plecs, she will bite a big chunk of one and swollow that aswell. She is getting very large, how can i stop here from eating so much?

My best advice to you is to feed the plec and loaches after the tank lights have been turned off, plecs and clown loaches are largely nocturnal so they won't have a problem finding the food but the female bettas will and thus won't get half as many opotunitys to steal the food off your bottom dwelling fish, this method is used by alot of people who have issues with other fish stealing corys, plecs and bottom dwelling loaches food .

 

[Durbkat]

I have 4 female Bettas in my community tank and are doing great! However one will not stop eating. She will eat the pellets i put in for the clown loaches. Wouldnt be so bad if she swollowed just one but she eats them in 3s and 4s. The pellets are slightly bigger than her mough but somehow she manages to swollow them! I also put peas in frm time to time for the BN plecs, she will bite a big chunk of one and swollow that aswell. She is getting very large, how can i stop here from eating so much?

My best advice to you is to feed the plec and loaches after the tank lights have been turned off, plecs and clown loaches are largely nocturnal so they won't have a problem finding the food but the female bettas will and thus won't get half as many opotunitys to steal the food off your bottom dwelling fish, this method is used by alot of people who have issues with other fish stealing corys, plecs and bottom dwelling loaches food .

Yeah thats what I used to have to do with my pleco and tetras when the light was on they would eat half before he realised there was food out there for him. But now since he is bigger than them he comes out with the light on and eats with it on to and the tetras don't even get a taste because when they get to close to his food he swims over it so they can't get it.