Betta fish???

Question

What is the best type of food to feed a betta fish and how much and how often should it be fed?

Also I've heard live plants are good for betta fish. Are they and if so what kind of plant would be good for a betta in a 5 gallon tank?

Answer 1

Note that plants aren't needed at all for bettas. Bettas are carnivores and won't snack on plants unless starving. Also a plant like a peace lily in a vase can drown a betta if it blocks the surface. Bettas are from very oxygen poor waters, and have a special similar to a lung. Their gills don't work. The amounts plants required to process a betta's waste is x10-20 times his weight.

That is not to say bettas don't like plants. My betta love to hide, and rest on them. One of my elderly bettas loves to spend all day resting on plant a couple of inches from the surface of the water. The poor guy is at least 3-4 years old. (Which isn't that old for a betta, but was poorly cared for in his youth by a prior owner.) As far as a plant type it doesn't matter. Surface plants are fun to hide under and on. One of my females is known to claim floating leaves of cabbage in my main tank. Another hides under java moss on a piece of drift wood.

PS- Don't believe bettas like tiny containers. These people have never seen a rice paddy. Rice paddies are huge. In nature bettas live in slow streams, ditches, and shallow ponds. We are talk 100s (often 1000s) of gallons per betta. A 5 gallon tank is great for a betta.
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Answer 2

A diet of variety. Freeze dried blood worms should be fed for like a treat. once or 2 times a week and that should be their meal of the day. I feed mine betta pellets, betta flakes, and the worms mentioned above. I dont have any live plants just for the fact that I dont want to chance getting snail eggs in the plant, then having to deal with that mess. Bettas are meat eaters, so betta food is best. Mine eats every other day. Depends on how your fish eats. Mine is very picky and I think a little sick so he doesn't eat the pellets and flakes for a few days after he was given the worms, Don't worry I am treating him so hopefully his appetite should go up. You don't want to over feed your fish either because they can can get bloated and other stuff. Good Luck!

Answer 3

specialist pellets, live, frozen and jellied foods (brine shrimp, daphnia, bloodworm) are best for bettas. i'm wary of blackworm as i've heard of it harbouring nasty parasites.

i feed my bettas Attison Betta Pro pellets as a staple, it's a fantastic little floating pellet that no betta can refuse! even stressed out brand new ones! that's mainly available online, that's where i got mine. they get 2-4 pellets a day (1 or 2 in the morning, 1 or 2 in the evening).

i'd avoid freeze dried food as it's just not quite as nutritious as live or frozen, and is only a treat food anyway.

live plants are just a nice bonus for a betta, they'll appreciate silk plants just as much, anything to snoop around and sit on. remember live plants will often need plenty of light and aquatic fertilizer as well. some plants need more care than fish!

Answer 4

Betta's love to eat live or freeze dried blood worms. Every other day is fine to feed your fishy friend. Also Betta's do like plants but I have found that they make the tank all dirty and you will have to clean it more often. Oh, and, sometimes plants carry parasites so you have to be careful. Good luck.

Answer 5

Go to the pet store and buy Betta Fish food. They love it, and it increases the vibrancy of their color. Any live plant will work with a betta. Just make sure it doesn't cover the surface of the water because bettas like to take in air from the surface and make bubbles at the surface with their mouths.

Answer 6

Freeze dried tuboflex worms, blood worms, and floating pellets especially for Betta's. The pet stores carry all kinds of aquatic plants, a fern would be enjoyed by a Betta because it is soft and could be incorperated in his bubble nest activity.

Answer 7

You can get betta food at a pet store or a walmart. You should get the pellets - the flakes are messy. If you go to a pet store they have bulbs and other plants that are made for bettas. Check it out.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

A peace lily is a common plant to use with a Beta. Get a large vase with a neck that is small enough to fit a small flower pot in. You can sometimes get kits for this. You can buy peace lilies in pots that don't have soil in them. Fill the vase with water, your Beta friend and any decorations. Set the pot with the peace lily in it on the lip of the vase. The roots need to hang in the water but keep the stem of the plant out of the water. The roots will provide nutrition for the Beta and the Beta will provide fertilizer. You generally don't need to feed them often this way - maybe once a week. I've used freeze dried red worms or pellets for food and my Betas have not shown a preference either way.

If feeding them without a plant, although I feed my Beta every day, you can often go every second day. They also do not need a lot of space - they originally lived in rice paddy puddles.

Answer 10

freeze dried bloodworms are good, and there are also pellets, or freeze dried shrimp any one fo those will provide enough nourishment for any beta. but you ahve to rememerbt hat the fish will ahve apreference...some of them they will eat like candy...some they won't touch... about once a day is good, but you can go weeks without feeding them and they will live..beta are resilisent fish.