Betta Fish and Betta Fish Care

Posts Tagged ‘Couple Of Minutes’

In their natural environment, Betta fish are carnivores as well as only eat live food like worms, daphnia and mosquito larvae. Bettas are wildly happy when they could actually hunt their own food before eating it. It’s quite easy to feed your Betta fish live food, especially if you have a great fish supply store nearby. People who breed and show Bettas often feed live food.

How to Feed Live Food to Betta Fish
Step 1

Good fish stores often sell brine shrimp, bloodworms, brown worms and other live foods for carnivorous fish. Many of these will keep for a week in the refrigerator. Experts advise scooping out enough for one feeding at a time with a small net and rinsing them briefly under running water before feeding them to your Betta fish to avoid introducing unwanted bacteria to the tank.

Step 2

Bettas tend to overeat, given the chance. Once food has sunk to the bottom of the tank, they will often ignore it and uneaten food can foul the water and make your Betta sick. This applies to any food  such as flakes or pellets. Only feed your Betta what he will eat in  a couple of minutes. Feeding once a day’s best, but you can feed a lesser amount two times a day. Your Betta might benefit from being fasted one day a week.

Step 3

Mosquito larvae and bloodworms will populate standing water anywhere weather is warm enough. If you don’t mind the idea of a few extra mosquitoes on your property, set out a bucket or small wading pool. You can easily see and catch mosquito larvae with a small net obtainable at any fish store. As long as here is some old leaf mulch at the bottom of the container, bloodworms will show up. They are right red and about a half inch long.Bettas have a lot of fun chasing mosquito larva and catching worms and it’s a 100% natural, fit food for them.

Step 4

Some fanciers grow their own fruit fly larvae, which make a fine Betta food. Check on-the-internet for suppliers who sell a variant with no wings so escapees don’t end up completely over your house. These are raised by putting soft fruit in glass jars. Check online for suppliers of cultures and starter kits.

Step 5

It might be tempting to get carried away and begin dropping all manner of small worms and bugs from your yard into your Betta tank for him to chase and eat. Resist this urge due to numerous small live organisms can carry bacteria harmful to your Betta.

Step 6

Those fanciers who don’t feed live food purchase freeze dried or frozen live food to ther Bettas. These foods are available at any good fish or aquaria store. While they don’t provide the same sport to the Bettas, they are nutritionally superior to most flake foods which have a lot of fillers.

This item includes a 1.5 gallon bowl.
When you go to a pet store, you’ll find rows of small bowls, every containing one colorful fish. These are male Siamese fighting fish (more properly well-known as a betta) and the way you find them in the pet store’s essentially how they should be kept.

Bettas able to be kept in small containers because they are able to breathe air, like humans, as well as water. Keep the water between 70 and 80 degrees, and don’t let the temperature modify too quickly. Keep the bowl away from appliances that produce a lot of heat.

IMPORTANT BETTA FISH CARE: Only ONE betta per bowl! They’re called “fighting fish” for a reason. They are highly territorial animals and will react violently if two are placed in the same container. You could look the preliminary phase of their fighting, the threat display, if you put a mirror up against the bowl. Notice the raised gill covers, which makes the betta look bigger.

Change the water in the bowl when it starts to look cloudy, about once a week. Let the water age at least 24 hours, to release some of the chemicals. After transfering the betta to a container (with either the old water or the water you’re going to use) clean the bowl with mild soap, and rinse thoroughly. Also rinse any decorations (rocks, shells, plastic plants, etc.) before filling the bowl with the aged water, and releasing your Siamese fighting fish.

The pet store where you bought your betta will have food as well, probably freeze-dried blood worms. Feed your Siamese fighting fish two or three times a day, only what he will eat in a couple of minutes. Overfeeding will make the water cloud faster, and your betta will be more likely to get ill.

One last note: pet stores usually don’t carry female bettas, because they tend to be less colorful and showy than the males. Also, individuals are usually just looking for a nice pet, not a breeding hobby. If this is your intention, then I suggest doing some dangerous research before you start!