Serving Food

You can offer them foods like flakes, granules, and pellets, and also include frozen and live food such as artemia and blood worms. Don’t overfeed them. Overfeeding leads to obesity and a swim bladder. Properly supply vitamin-rich diet which increases immunity system.

When you feed the betta maintain a proper feeding schedule, feeding small portions of food

twice a day. You can serve 4 to 6 pellets in every meal. But don’t overfeed them. Once a week choose a fast for them to good digestion system.

A high-quality pellet, enriched with protein is considered as a base meal, with a healthy treat. Which can be either live or frozen. Occasionally you can serve them brine shrimp and bloodworms.

If you overfeed the betta, they cause many problems such as obesity, swim bladder, and constipation. betta undergoes a “fast” for one day every 15 days, to maintain appetites. They can live without eating for 15 days because of the environment change, water change, etc.

Caregivers may get a good look at the betta as they eat. Regular health checks should be undertaken throughout feeding sessions to detect changes in appetite, behavior, or physical condition since these might be early markers of health difficulties. Make sure that caregivers know what to do to be safe, particularly while entering enclosures.

A healthy diet boosts the immune system, as well as improves the quality of the scales, fins, eyes, skin, and gills. Provide food two times a day.

Overfeeding leads to the:

Generally, betta have a weak digestion system, if you overfeed them they can develop constipation or bloating. As freshwater fish, they consider small eye-sized portions of food.

Constipation: the causes of constipation are overfeeding and lack of fiber in

the diet. The treatment is fasting for 2-3 days, and feeding peas as well as high-quality betta food.

Decrease appetite: the symptoms decrease the appetite. Proper feeding quantity and schedule the feeding.