What Food Brand Do You Guys Recommend?

[coffeeaddict]

Yep, it's me again, seems like new questions just keep popping up.

I'm currently feeding my new guy "Aqua Culture" Betta pellet food. About 6 pellets a day as per the instructions on the bottle. Is this a good brand or is there something better?

He has a very dull color, like a dingy off white and his fins are droopy, I just want to give him the best chance of regaining some color if it's in the cards for him. He doesn't appear to be sick (at least that I can tell) he's been swimming all over, eating his pellets and spends some time poking at the plant. Pretty active.

Thanks!

 

[joycould]

Hikari betta bio gold and also atison's betta pro. I had been using HBH betta bites but the local pet store pulled it off the self saying there was a problem with the labeling so I quite using it. I have nutrafin flakes in case I get a betta that isn't on pellets. I also feed mine a pea once a week. I limit the freeze dried blood worms to once a week.

A fish that is stressed won't have as bright. I got what I thought was a pastel fish a week and a half ago and he is very bright, and he is more iridescent than any of the rest I have.

 

[mommyof2bettas]

I feed Wardley betta pellets, what I like about pellets is that one little box thingy lasts a long time! I've had the same one for about a year and it's only half empty!
I also feed peas instead of pellets once a week, and then bloodworms as a treat every now and then

 

[coffeeaddict]

Do peas have good nutritional value for them, or is it only a treat?

 

[betta_101]

i've heard of feeding a pea to a betta once a week.. how do you feed it to them..like how do you prepare it. i think you thaw a frozen pea out and cut it up into small pieces. and is it once a week?
i have heard people say on here that they feed the pea the day they dont feed them out of the week.
this right?
i also use Wardley betta pellets .. and then i also have bloodworms.

Chris

 

[joycould]

Peas are good to prevent constipation. Besides that it is fun to watch them kill the big green thing. I use frozen peas, microwave it in a little water. Cool then shell it. I feed them about a 1/2 pea each time. Some people fast their bettas for a day before they feed them the pea. It doesn't hurt not to feed them for a day or 2. I usually feed mine their pea on Saturday morning. I feed them Friday morning and skip the evening feeding. So they are fasted for 24 hours, but it makes me feel better knowing they are fed everyday.

 

[jollysue]

Atison's Betta Pro, Hikari Betta Gold, a fast day, and some pea once a week + a treat of frozen blood worm or live black worm or some other meaty treat once a week. Unless really active or conditioning for breeding not too much high protein fatty blood worm and black worm. They love to wrestle that live worm to the ground, though.

Yes, not much cuter than watching a Betta carry a piece of pea around like a trophy, unless it was watching a sorority girl carry the Synos' Hikari sinking Catfish wafer around.

 

[Amunet]

I use Hikari Gold: Floating Type Baby Pellets for my bettas.
They're probably the same exact thing as the betta pellets you can get from HIkari since they're the same size as them.

 

[channing]

i use new life spectrum community fish formula. its also the only food we will feed the stores fish as it is one of the top foods out right now.

 

[-germ-]

Tetra pro colour and or veg...
A little nutrafin colour for the red algae, don't know if it helps but it sounds good...
Fast day at least once a week, with a pea, or when my fish looks bloated....
Live foods on average twice a week (daphinia mostly, brine shrimp rarely and blood worm very, very rarely)
Bit of prawn once a month as a treat and the occasional algae wafer....
AND whatever courgette can be stolen from my plecos.

And heres me with pasta every night.

 

[gta1628]

Hikari Gold, Hikari is a good brand.

 

[jollysue]

I feed New Spectrum Sinking Cichlid pellets to my fronts and New Spectrum Goldfish sinking pellets to the common Goldie. I hadn't seen New Spectrum Betta pellets or I would add it to the regimen.

For now I most highly recommend Hikari Betta Gold and Atison's Betta Pro. Atison's is easier to feed, because it comes with a little spoon to take exactly what you want out of the container, rather than having to pour it out the little spout like with Hikari. I always have to try to get some back in the Hikari spout. Atison's is often promoted by the Betta Societies. I also use Atison's Betta Spa, and I use Atison's Betta Starter for my Corydoras fry.

 

[Jonz]

Also for peas and those stubborn Bettas. If you break the pea apart and then squish into the size of their pellets, theyll just think its one of their pellets and eat them.

I have a bunch of girls in a community tank and they started eating the flake I dropped in for the other fish after awhile. THe only betta I had that ever flake was my first years ago. None of my others would becuase they got spoiled on pellets.