My Betta Keeps Spitting Out Food
The food pellets might be too big for him as my girls got them.
My betta keeps spitting out food. Bettas often do not prefer flakes and will eat them at the last resort. My last fish did not eat for like 1 week. Would crushing it up be okay or would that make too much of a mess.
Also if the flake is too big to get in one bite he ll eat half of it spit out the other half then eat that one. Even if he keeps spitting out food dont worry. Only feed your betta what you can visually see him or her eat within 2 minutes.
He has been exploring and has settled in very well and gets along fine with the other fish. I don t feed my betta everyday though it is better to under feed them than to over feed them. I just got my betta boy tiger about a day ago.
My fish splash hates flakes and will only eat pellets. My opal male betta which i got about a month ago was spitting out his food and then eating it about twice before he just spit it out for good the stopped doing that after a couple days but today i gave him new treats and he was scared of them at first but then he ate them but he keeps spitting out like the remnants of food. Your betta s stomach is roughly the size of its eyeball and some pellets are even bigger than that.
My suggestion is to switch to a different type of betta food and give him a treat often like blood worms. And when you over feed your fish and that food gets spit out it sinks to the bottom of your tank and makes for bad water quality for the water and filter. Well its probably because the food could be to big for him or he doesnt like it or maybe its too hard and rough to eat.
One time i cut a pellet in half and he had more interest in it. However this doesn t mean he s not eating. New betta fish keeps spitting food out.