How Do You Feed Live Food To Betta Fish?
In their natural environment, Betta fish are carnivores and only eat live food like worms, daphnia and mosquito larvae. Bettas are wildly happy when they can actually hunt their own food before eating it. It’s quite easy to feed your Betta fish live food, especially if you have a good fish supply store nearby. People who breed and show Bettas often feed live food. 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 very small net and rinsing them briefly under running water before feeding them to your Betta fish to avoid introducing unwanted bacteria to the tank. 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 including flakes or pellets. Only feed your Bett
