Betta With Brine Shrimp

When i was breeding bettas in the 80 s brine shrimp was one of the staple live foods i used for the exact reasons you mention.

Betta with brine shrimp. It will be hard to overfill a 10 gallon tank with shrimp as long as your careful. I had kept ghost shrimp with the betta before and he seemed to enjoy those as a snack but i wanted to try and switch it up with brine shrimp. If a tank is large enough bettas actually can live with certain kinds of fish but that isn t the question here.

One downside of brine shrimp is they can be a little bit harder to culture. Wingless fruit flies are also easy. I like to vary the food of my beta.

And luckily cherry shrimp and bettas love the same conditions. I ve had him for 5 or 6 days. If you search the net there are various ways to hatch and harvest baby brine shrimp.

He refuses betta pellets blood worms flakes even fry food. This is more for feeding. Is it ok for him to just eat brine shrimp.

I recently bought a male betta fish and put him in a 5 gallon filtered heated and cycled aquarium. But before you feed them you try to remove salty out of brine shrimp. If you plan on feeding your betta brine shrimp you should only do it 2 3 times a week.

Also in this tank is a female scarlet badis. However remember there are other alternatives such as daphnia mosquito larvae and brine shrimp. Sherolyn basement bettas if you have spawns growing out you need a continuous supply of baby brine shrimp.