Feeding Betta Fish

Feeding a betta fish doesn't seem too hard-and indeed many of these hardy little

fish really will take almost any fish food, including the really cheap "brandless" flakes that can be found just about anywhere - but the question is whether this kind of food is actually good for the betta. Even though it may be palatable for a betta, it may not actually be very healthy. So a betta owner would be best suited to go out of his or her way to find the best kinds of food available for his or her fish.

Firstly, a good flake food should be bought. It doesn't really follow that the better brands are always perfect sources of nutrition for bettas-some of them aren't-so it's always best to check out reviews. Some are definitely better than others. As a whole, however, it is never good to depend too much on flake food. Flake and even freeze-dried live foods far too often lack too much of the nutrition and nourishment potential that true live-sourced foods can have-many vitamins and minerals are far too often lost in processing-and so it is always best to give ALL live or fresh foods, if not mix them up with some flake foods for convenience's sake.

It must be understood that however much a betta may seem to like flake or freeze dried foods, it will take to live foods far more readily. Live foods after all are what they eat in nature, having evolved such eating habits over thousands if not millions of years. In the wild, bettas eat small insects like mosquito larvae and pupae-which they often share their stagnant waters with-small crustaceans like water fleas, worms such as tubificid worms, and so on. These live foods are available for home aquarists-some stores will sell them, or something similar, while others may also sell kits for hatching and/or raising them at home, thus making it easy for a betta hobbyist to feed live his or her betta quality live foods.

So it is settled-a diet consisting of MOSTLY or ALL live foods is best, but for convenience's sake, OCCASIONAL feeding of live foods will do. However, that said, catching live food in the wild is most definitely a no-no. This is because many other organisms often lurk in the waters where these food sources can be found-some large like flukes, lice or intestinal worms, some small like bacteria or viruses-and all of which MUST be avoided. So the urge to capture live foods for feeding a betta should be avoided, as doing so may prove far more harmful than beneficial.

Feeding Betta Fish

By: christoalnz

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