Betta Fish and Betta Fish Care

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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.

Many individuals enjoy raising betta fish. If you don’t have a fish tank accessible or if you would prefer something a little more aesthetically pleasing, you able to use a large vase in lieu of a traditional tank.

 Step 1
Secure a medium to large vase. In addition to being able to hold enough water, it needs to have a wide enough mouth that you could move your fish in and out of the vase without much trouble. You will also must clean the vase fully 1 to 3 times/year.

Step 2
Dress the vase. Pebbles or marbles can be placed at the bottom to give it a little of  color, but be sure to sufficiently rinse them. Once these are in place, insert the filter and pump according to the directions.
It is recommended that you suction these to the side of vase, although this is not required. Finally, insert the plants into the vase, producing sure that they do not fully block the surface of the water.

Step 3
Add water. Use filtered water unless you are completely sure your tap water is free of magnesium, fluoride, and different additives. You can also add a water conditioner at this time. The water should be slightly above room temperature, and you should only fill the vase about 5/8ths initially, as you don’t want it to overflow when you add the fish.

Step 4
Let the water sit for a day. This allows the filter to do its work and purify the water.

Step 5
If you haven’t already done so, buy the fish. A pet store employee can help you do this, but your fish should look healthy, with moving fins and no mold or discolorations.

Step 6
Introduce the fish to its new environment by either mixing some of the water that has been sitting in the vase with the fish’s, or by having the fish sit in its bag in the water, allowing both pools of water to mix. You can then maneuver the fish into the vase.

Step 7
Feed your fish 2 to 3 pellets of food a day. Keep a second container available nearby in case you knock over the vase and it breaks.