What is the best betta food brands?

Question

I have three bettas right now that will not eat betta pellets, they will only eat Tetra BettaMin Flakes. But tha'ts not my question. I am getting two more bettas from a store where I know they will eat pellets. (That's what the other bettas' problem is, the petstore where they were at only fed them flake food, so they got used to eating it and now they won't switch back.) So anyway, what is the best 2 or 3 brands (to give a little variety). Thank you.

I'm sorry, but these battas wont eat ANYTHING but flakes, they won't eat live bloodworms, freeze dried, or freeze dried brine shrimp. To give them variety I am feeding them betta flakes, tropical flakes and a tiny tiny bit of goldfish flakes. I have tried everything with these guys. they literally starved themselves for a week straight when I tried to feed them pellets and freeze dried foods.

Answer 1

The best food is a mixture of foods actually. Just like people can't get all their nutritional needs from a single food, neither can most fish, including your betta and future bettas. A good basic flake or pellet like you are using now should be the staple food for them, the one you feed the most often. Add to that a variety of frozen foods or live foods. Good choices include blood worms, brine shrimp, daphnia, and other assorted "meaty" foods. Bettas eat insects in the wild and are evolved to need them, so even things like small soft flies, mosquito larvae and the like that you can catch at home are excellent foods for your betta.

I feed my bettas once in the morning and once in the evening. Once a day I feed flake food and once a day I feed one of the other foods.

MM

Answer 2

As the other users have said, the best foods are a mixture of traditional "betta food" and others supplemental food like the bloodworms, brine shrimp and so on.

Typically, the highest quality betta food a pet store will offer is Hikari Tropical Betta Bio-Gold. It can be pretty expensive ($7.99 for 20grams), but it'll probably last your bettas entire lifetimes. My bettas eat it like candy, and it really helps to bring out their color.

Another food you can try using is BettaMin (I think...). It's basically freeze dried bloodworms which are bettas natural prey item. (The food comes in blue packaging, unlike most other fish food, which comes in red, yellow or orange, typically.) This food doesn't have a seal on the inside, so when you open it (at the pet store), you should just see a bunch of worms in there. It's kind of gross, but bettas absolutely love them. They slurp them down like little betta-spaghetti. :) (I personally think they like it better than the Hikari food, but I don't think it's necessarily better nutrition for them.)

It's a good idea to use both of these foods in conjunction with the other to provide your fish with more solid nutrition.

Personally, I use just these two foods, but if you like, you can opt to add brine shrimp or insect larvae to their diet.

It's kind of difficult to tell when/if your betta fish is lacking something in its diet (unless it's an extreme deficiency that causes color deterioration or the like). A betta can live its entire life on just flakes or just pellets, but it can live healthier (maybe happier? Lol) if it has a wider variety of foods.

Hopefully that will work for you. :)

Good luck with your new betta fish.

Answer 3

I have always heard that Hikari Betta (Gold?) is the best. They are little pellets that float. I tried Omega One Betta Buffet. Which is flake food.

A rule of thumb is to avoid any foods that doesn't have fish meal or some kind of meat product in the first few ingredients. Bettas are carnvorous so they need as much animal protein as possible.

Answer 4

I'd not worry so much about brands as I would about variety. I like to give them brine shrimp, bloodworms, flakes, pellets, and veggies.

Answer 5

The top 3:
atison's betta pro (never heard of a betta turning that down! It's very good for them, too. Although, can be hard to find. Check online)
Hikari bio gold
HBH betta bites