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I am currently feeding frozen brine and bloodworms to my Betta coccina (with occasional live treats). Cause they're naturally shy fish I find it hard to get the food into their "hiding places". The live food swims a bit especially live brine shrimp so there's not really a prob there. Mainly when I use frozen food. Is there a better way to do it? How can i feed them without a heap of expensive food being wasted?

Thanks in advance

could you use some sort of pipette? type thing to squirt the food in front of their faces?

find a nice long pair of tweezers

Have you tried those tubifex worm cones? it drops it down gradually so you arent just lumping it all in one spot at once.

My bettas (unidentified, possibly smaragdina, possibly edithae, i dunno yet!) hide when i come near, but will scoot out for food if i am not around.

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

hey yeah i like those ideas! simple but clever thanks alot guys

i think somebody already mentioned it, the cone thing. i have two of them, one on each side of the tank, just drop some in, and the fish will find them and eat it from the cone thing, just remove the leftovers in the cone.

I think they covered the feeding methods already, but you mentioned that the frozen food was expensive so I'll comment on that instead.

To cut some costs, I'd like to point out that you are feeding live brine shrimp and frozen brine shrimp, but buying the frozen brine shrimp. Why not get some distilled water ( or another source of dechlorinated/decontaminated water ) and freeze your own brine shrimp using a ice cube tray...just filling the ice cube tray part way or something. Remove brine shrimp, rinse them off in the dechlorinated water, place in ice cube tray, add water, freeze.

I was actually thinking bout investing in a large container of brine shrimp eggs. Cause if these (and other fish) breed i'll need some anyway. I recon that would work hey. Do any Aussies know of a good brand of eggs availible in Australia? It's strange I only ever seam to see the big containers at the fish auctions

my frozen food isnt expensive! 24 cubes for like 3 bucks thats pretty cheap!

Hi Marine Race,

You could try placing your cube/s into a little saucer with distilled water. Let it thaw and place the thawed worms or brineshrimps into the water little by little.

It works wonders, especially for 'cautious fishes'. Let them get used to the food and they would be grabbing it in no time. Cheers!

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um um um, no.... but if you can afford it, go with the vacuum packed ones

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

I tried out a cone worm feeder last night , feeding frozen bloodworms and brine shrimp. Had to let the cubes thaw in the cone a bit, then swish them around. Took the fish about 4 minutes to figure out how to eat em, but once they did it was " on " . They emptied the cone in about 2 minutes, without wasting anything, and no frozen food chunks flying all over the tank, getting sucked up by filter or anything.