Betta Won T Eat Pellets Or Flakes
With these pellets your betta will be more prone to eating and he will also be more energetic and alert.
Betta won t eat pellets or flakes. None of these ingredients aid the diet of a carnivorous fish in a healthy way. I put one in he ate it and spat it out. Posted by 13 hours ago.
Though pellets and flakes may be okay for awhile a betta fish will always prefer to eat live or frozen live food because it is a carnivore by nature. Log in or sign up to leave a comment log in. And when i bought him i got betta flakes.
Mine actually prefer flakes because i think that is what they were raised on so try giving your betta some flakes. Betta fish won t eat pellets. If you want to convert them back to prepared pellet or flake food after feeding them live or frozen just starve them a couple of days and add pellets at that time.
The other may once again be that at the moment the food is just too big. If he is trying to eat them and spitting them out you might want to soak them in warm water before putting them in his tank. I know some people that say that feeding my betta flake food is bad but that s the only thing he ll eat and i also tried giving him freeze dried food but he won t take it either.
My female bettas will not eat pellets unless they are softened before i put them in their tank. I did some research and found out that they d rather have bloodworms pellets and occasionally peas. After i fed him one he d eat it and spit it right out.
My betta fish doesn t like to eat pellet or granular foods but it does respond to eating tropical flake food that i crush in between my fingers. Commercial flakes and pellets will almost always contain various land based vegetables gluten wheat gluing agents. The problem is once you try to feed them pellets or flake food it ll be so alien to them they won t even realize it s food.