what's your feeding schedule?

[twoluvcats]

Just cause I'm curious...

What foods do you feed your bettas?

How often do you feed?

If you vary your food, how do you mix it up?

What do you feed for "treats"?

[Minaku]

I feed my boys a mixture of HBH pellets, Bettamin flakes, Hikari freeze-dried bloodworms and freeze-dried brine shrimp (not Hikari). Neptune will gobble up pellets and bloodworms, but Boris is used to flakes because he had problems eating pellets for a while. He'll eat pellets, but he loves his flakes for some odd reason.

What is also odd is that Boris doesn't go crazy for the bloodworms like Neptune does. Instead, he'd rather have a nice brine shrimp. I usually pick the dried bits of brine shrimp out of the Bettamin food and give them to both of my fish. I keep looking for gel or frozen food, but I can't find any at my LFS.

I feed my fish twice a day, 3 pellets or their equivalent each feeding. Neptune is still a small fish, only an inch or slightly larger, so there is no way I can feed the 5-6 pellets recommended on the packaging. Boris is bigger and more active, so I give him as much as he can eat without bloating. I forget to feed my fish probably once every two weeks, so they get fasts inadvertently. (I get pretty busy, and often when I come home I change and plop right into bed.)

[twoluvcats]

I feed almost everything (except Bettamin lol...all my guys HATED it) I have O.S.I. betta food, Marineland betta bio-blend, Wardly, Bio-Gold, and Aquarian. They also get FD bloodworms, sun dried baby shrimp, bloodworms in gel, Tetramin granules, and spirulina flakes.

I switch off on the different pellet foods every week. I only feed once a day...when i was feeding 2x a day I was having constipation problems...so they all get 3-4 pellets in the AM. They also get bloodworms in gel ~3x a week as a treat...they finish off the packet after I feed the frog.

I use the bloodworms, spirulina flakes, bloodowrm gel and dried shrimp as treats...they get them when i'm visiting with them, or need them to surface for any reason. I also throw in any small flying insects that I can catch.

So far i have not had a picky betta...my guys have eaten everything they've been given, excluding bettamin.

[Minaku]

We have a slight problem with gnats and fruit flies in my apartment. I keep wondering if I should catch some and let my boys eat them. I'm betting that fruit flies would taste good! well, to the fish, at least. The problem is that I tend to kill them before thinking, then they become a red splotch of eye fluid and wing on my hands.

Maybe I'll leave the cover off (I leave the water line a bit low so it's harder for them to jump out) and they can er... hunt a bit.

[twoluvcats]

they would LOVE the fruit flies. We had an infestation in my office this summer, and I would just wack them out of the air and toss them in the tank...Elmo was a happy fish. He didn't care if they were alive or dead.

[Minaku]

Those things move fast, though. I suppose I'll have to kill them, then scrape the remains off and into the water... There's no "disgust" emote, so that'll have to do.

Twoluvcats, I see that you have an African dwarf frog in a 5 gallon with a betta. I was thinking of getting a frog or two for my fish, but their new digs are 2.5 gallons. Should I use the inch of fish/gallon of water rule on frogs as well? Will it be too cramped in a 2.5 gal with a betta and a frog?

[twoluvcats]

i tried it in a 2 gallon and the betta killed the one I had. they are messy to feed...so a 5 gallon is better for them. Plus, it depends on the temperment of your betta. Elmo is intense...he kills all tankmates except snails. Syke is a bit more laid back, and the 5 gallon provides more places to hide.

[Minaku]

I figured it might come down to something like that. I'm not sure I want to risk killing a frog to see if it's compatible with my fish, though. I've heard of stories where the frog fought back, and the fish and frog settled down into a working relationship, but I don't expect anything remotely like that to happen.

I have a two gallon tank free. I guess it'll be going to my boyfriend so that he can have a pair of frogs.

[marcusbacus]

in no particular order of preference, and always twice a day (being the dinner different from the lunch):

Bettamin (the blue one doesn't like this one that much though)
Nutral pellets
Tetramin Pro
Tetra FD Bloodworms
Tetra Delica Brine Shrimps
Frozen Brine Shrimps

with my new fishes (rams and corys) I feed them the Tetramin Pro as well but I've noticed that the rams hate the pink/red flakes but eat all the others.

[indigogirl]

I feed mine biomarine betta pellets The blue male likes them.
Frozen brine shrimp
frozen bloodworms which my platies love because we share
they all dislike bettamin flakes
and prefer when I feed them the frozen instead of the
pellets. The female will eat any betta pellets she see's
me coming and she's up their begging.
2x a day just a smidgin'

[xgigina]

Pez LOOOOOOOOOVES freeze dried bloodworms--did i mention pez loves bloodworms? pez will swim all across the world for bloodworms

Pez isn't as picky and will gobble anything up, Jack on the other hand will observe his food for a while before actully eating it

I use--

Hikari Bloodworms
Hikari Daphnia (sparingly)
Hikari Brine Shrimp
Top Fin Betta Bits (it was the only thing I could get Jack to eat at first, but I'm trying to ween him off of them)

I feed until their tummies turn nicely rounded

Sometimes, if Jack is acting quirky he'll dart up pick up his food and dart back under his plant to eat in peace so that the scary reflection doesn't steal his food from him. ;D

[Flurry]

I feed Don Wardley Betta Bites, Betta Bio-Gold, freezed dried red grubs, frozen bloodworms and frozen brine shrimp.

He gets fed twice a day. Usually pellets in the morning (3-4 Bio Gold pellets or 2 Betta Bites), and then a pinch of freeze dried red grubs in the evening. Every once in a while I get out the frozen stuff, but I only do it twice a month, since it's a hassle to break chunks off of the cubes.