Betta Eating Seed Shrimp

Remember betta fish may eat even if they are not hungry.

Betta eating seed shrimp. Bettas are predators and small shrimp are on the menu. Your betta s stomach is roughly the size of its eyeball and some pellets are even bigger than that. In their wild environment betta fish are omnivores eating a varied diet that includes mainly insect larvae water bound insects and a small amount of plant matter.

However this doesn t mean he s not eating. Can it eat too much. The most common reason your betta is spitting out food is simply that it s too big.

Press j to jump to the feed. As with any other betta fish tank mates there is no way to know until you get them together. In nature betta fish are primarily carnivorous eating a diet of insects and insect larvae.

Will they eat ghost shrimp. I have a 10 gallon with cherry shrimp. So tank kept bettas need more meaty foods in their diet than veggies and that s for a very good reason.

Few months ago i noticed some seed shrimp swimming around which turned to hundreds. It depends on the betta. Hey so i got a betta gifted to me for what was a fairly empty planted shrimp tank but now even with the dense planting the betta keeps eating my cherries and she s literally always so bloated from eating them basically whole that i m not sure if i should continue to feed her her pellets to satiate her murderous intentions or if she should just continue annihilating my beloved shrimp.

However in your home aquarium your betta doesn t have access to the full range of food options that they would normally find out in the wild. Captive kept pet bettas can be fed a diet of specially formulated betta pellets or flake foods enhanced with regular portions of frozen food freeze dried food and fresh live food. Today i got a baby betta for the tank and it is going crazy for these things.