Is there a downside to feeding betta fish worms, because i am trying to condition them with good food. I just bought some today and i fed them 3 small to medium size worms. Is that too much or too little? I am also feeding them some freeze dried blood worms also. Do you recommend any other foods? O yea, what cultures should i feed my betta fries, if i get there...
P.S. thanks for all your answers
2007-03-11 17:14:37 · 6 answers · asked by Andrew T 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
I recommend feeding your adults twice a day. Once with a flake or pellet and once with a good frozen or live food. My personal favorites are bloodworms, brine shrimp, mosquito larvae.
As for feeding the fry, I would suggest micro worms for the first few days and baby brine shrimp after that until they are large enough to handle adult brine and flake foods.
MM
2007-03-11 17:29:34 · answer #1 · answered by magicman116 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Personally I've never favored the idea of conditioning beta or live food. Over feeding them leads to just some many problems, and live encourages them to over eat. Plus there is the issue of disease brought in by live food. The male is only going to be not eating for less than a week so I just add a tad bit more food and protein. You bettas shouldn't pot bellied going into breeding.
Just keep in mind my bettas are fed a mix of freeze dried blood worms, and brine shrimp as a part of their normal diet. So my betta get high protien all the time. (Which is why I'm sure not to over feed.) An algae flake once week before or after their fasting day.
Fry are the exception they need a very small live food like micro worms, infusoria, or vinegar eels. Personal I hate microworms and prefer vinegar eels with infusoria as a back up. That said you can generally buy microworm in a couple of days, while vinegar eels take weeks of prior planning. I try to go to brine shrimp within a week or 2. Once they start getting big I cycle thru freeze dried brine shrimp, and blood worms. If I'm giving them away to the general public, or fish store I add a flake, and pellet to the mix. (Fewer panicked calls about why they won't eat X.)
2007-03-12 04:24:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
From what I was told by people who feed bloodworm to their bettas, two or three worms is enough and you should only feed worms to them once a week as a treat.
2016-03-29 00:58:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i fed mine some pellets and MAINLY freeze dried blood worms
and once a week frozen blood worms
what kind of worms are you feeding?
meal worms
earth worms
brown worms
blood wroms?
also get a microworms culture
off the net
you will buy a "starter culture" and put it in with some mix
and will basically raise microworms from it
try ebay or something online shopping type thing?
and then after maybe 5 days
start on BBS
which you will also need to buy
you can do some quick searches on this on google
and get a basic understanding AT LEAST
www.bettatalk.com
check it
-Ivan
2007-03-11 17:24:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the betta has any red coloring in it I would defiantly feed him blood worms. Try to get a small block of frozen blood worms and just shave off tiny amounts of it. From my experience the frozen are a little better when it comes to improving color. -as for almost all carnivorous red fish
2007-03-11 22:02:01 · answer #5 · answered by nickds7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have fed my betta both flake food and blood worms. He loves them both.
2007-03-11 18:58:54 · answer #6 · answered by Andrew 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋