Food

To survive, food is essential. Because of their long nose, the fish can grab the food from crevasses and beneath rock. By nature, halfmoon bettas are carnivores. So, they prefer protein rich diet. Their diet include animal fat and plants. You can offer them variety of food such as daphnia, brine shrimp, tubifex worms and frizzed dried bloodworms.

If you put them in an aquarium as a pet, you should focus on a vitamin-rich diet which includes meat, crustaceans, fish, and shrimp. You can serve them frozen food. Keep remembering to give them small pieces of food because they have small mouths.

You can offer them algae, baby shrimp, prawns, crabs, small fish, mosquitoes, insects, small spiders, sea anemones, corals, seaweed, annelid worms, and benthic worms.

Offer them a variety of food so betta gets all the essential nutrition. They opt for meats because they require a large amount of protein for proper functioning. Halfmoon betta eat 3 times. You can offer a variety of food:

Prepared food is great for all marine species. Most pet owners give them fishflakes. They are picky eaters even with flakes and pellet food. These fish have some digestion issues even when preparing food. You should give them a product that has high nutrient value, such as frozen fish, live food, and algae.

Halfmoon Betta prefers to eat live food. They love small vertebras so they can easily eat in one bite and prevent choking hazards. The best food for them is baby brine shrimp and copepods.

Lots of halfmoon bettas prefer to eat algae, so put them in an aquarium so they eat whenever they want. Usually, algae available in every pet store comes in the form of dried nori or sheets.

Frozen food is great for most of the species. These foods commonly have a mixture of organisms. The good thing about frozen food is you don’t have to throw it, just cut it into chunks and place it in an aquarium.