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A few days ago I bought an Ambulia (typo maybe?) plant for my tank, and my Betta is nipping at its leaves every so often.

Even more recently, a friend gave me a bristlenosed pleco, which is, yes, with my betta (for now, hopefully not too long) and so Ive put in a single algea tablet, which my betta is nibbling on a fair bit too.

Am I not feeding him enough usually? (2 pellets in the morn, 1 bloodworm in the afternoon), or is there a chance he's going to overfeed himself?

If you ask me,he's being way underfed.

you should feed 6-8 pellets daily.

3-4 in morning and 3-4 at night.

The bloodworm is a nice extra treat.

Good Luck!
STBL

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If by pellets you mean the tiny tiny hikari betta pellets then I would have to say he may need abit more.
Betta tummies are very small so dont overfeed.

I feed mine the hikari betta pellets. He gets 4 in the morning then a couple bloodworms in the noontime and late he gets 4 more pellets. He is happy so I guess its good enough.

They're not hikari pellets, they're about 2mm's each I think...or 2.2 as it says on the packaging.

He's given himself a slight bloating from the algea waffers but I'll get him on a higher feed tonight once it's gone down more ^^

Thanks ya'll ^^

Hmmm how about 2 pellets and a bloodworm in the morning and the afternoon? that'd work out to be around 4 pellets and 2 bloodworms daily?

Double that and you'll be ok.4 pellets just isn't enough with or without those bloodworms.

So 4pellets& 2 bloodworms twice a day

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My Betta tank feeding is as follows.
Mon 1/2 of a frozen blood worm square. This is placed in a floating live worm feeder, and he has learnt to knock it and the worms fal out, I have cut most of the bottom out and make the holes bigger. The Cardinals and the SAE also knock it.
Tue-Sat are all different foods from small pinhead pellets to various flake foods. the amount would not cover my small finger nail.
Sun water chage day no feeding (I NEVER feed on a change water day)
Another thing to consider is the size of the tank as mine is 32lt he gets plenty of exercise and would eat far more that a Betta in a small tank by himself. here is
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Keith

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What pellets are you using?

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Callatya it you are refering to me, they are, Haifeng Super Red Colour enhancing food. I got them for the Cardinals reason the LFS where I bought some of the Cardinals feed with it and them and they love it.

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mine are these pellets

He could probably have quite a few more of those without a problem. They look nice, I haven't ever used them. Do they soften up quickly? Sink or float?

There are pretty forgiving, he won't drop dead on that amount of food, and in some cases slightly underfeeding is beneficial, but I'd be upping that just a little for him.

I haven't tried the Haifeng either Keith... hmm, methinks we need a food thread






For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

It floats, and they do start softening up relatively fast =) though he scoffs them down as soon as they hit his tank now 0_0

either way he has a slighlty rounded belly without looking bloated these days ^^

What about flake foods, can they be fed regular tropical fish flakes? I got a sample with my tank kit, they are called tetramin tropical flakes. If anyone feeds their betta flakes let me know if it is a success and I will try it, a little variety would probably benefit my little buddy.

Justin:

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30g platy tank: 2 sunburst wag platys, 2 redtailed white calico platys, 2 red wag platys, 1 fry(not sure who it belongs to), 1 Golden CAE.
Bettas:1 VT male

some will take flakes, but generally speaking the protein content of standard flake food isn't high enough to get their attention, plus they don't always recognise it as food in that form. Not all that great as a stable as it isn't usually meaty enough, but it can be good for variety Give it a try, worst case scenario you can just fish it out again

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett