Betta Fish Feeding
Feeding female Betta fish should be done with special care to make sure they live a long healthy life. In their natural habitat, Bettas feed on zooplankton, which includes crustaceans, bloodworms and other small animals or insects like flies and grasshoppers. An assortment of foods tend to make for healthier female Betta fish, so make sure to change their food choices. Even special types of store bought food will assist with variety.
The first rule in feeding female Betta fish is not to overfeed them! Baby Betta fish (or fish fries as they are called) require to eat two times per day. With fully grown Bettas, one a day, usually in the morning, is enough. Give them as much food as they can ingest in about 2-3 minutes. Any extra food that is not consumed and drops down to the bottom of the tank could eventually be a nesting ground for bacteria that can harm your Bettas.
It is also wise to waive feeding and fast your Female Betta Fish once per week (consistently on the same day). This is good for your Betta’s digestion and isn’t harmful at all, in fact it is very healthy for your Bettas. If you plan on being away for more than two days, have a caretaker feed them or use an auto feeder.
The safe and easy option is to buy Betta food pellets from you local pet store. These come with compressed vitamins, bloodworms, shrimp, fish meal, and an assortment of other ingrediants. Freeze dried bloodworms or brine shrimp are also healthy, safe and simple choices (although your Betta would rather eat live insects). While feeding them live food is enjoyable to watch, freeze dried insects are safe from parasites and will usually be safer.
An additional choice is to give your female Betta fish live food, for example, red or black mosquito larvae (bloodworms) or living brown worms which must be purchased locally. hen providing your Betta fish with live insects, make sure to clean the food well before using it or your Betta fish could get sick and possibly die. For straight forward ways to prevent your Betta from getting sick and ways to take care of a sick Betta you can go to our website for more information on the subject. Worms caught in your lawn are not a good choice because they may have been in contact with pesticides and other damaging chemicals that could harm your Bettas. It is even more significant not to overfeed your Betta live food. While they’ll allow uneaten pellets drop to the bottom of the tank, a Betta fish won’t stop eating live food and can literally eat himself to death!
If your Betta fish are mating then you can feed them a large variety of insects (generally this is much more heathy for most fish) including diverse types of worms, fruit flies, brine shrimp, and mosquito larvae. You can also feed an adult Betta many times in a day if you’re expecting on mating them. When feeding Betta fish newborns, you should start at 5 days after they’re born. You can feed them several times per day. Boiled egg yolk, baby brine shrimp, and infusoria are all safe foods for female Betta fish fries.
