Serving Food

Since they are mainly carnivores, betta should eat a wide range of entire prey, such as birds, fish, and other suitable sources of protein. For betta, it's important to provide them with a balanced diet provide their unique nutritional requirements at each stage of life.

You can maintain a feeding schedule, and feed them twice a day. Offer small portions of food every time. Overfeeding can lead to obesity. We recommended once a once-a-week fasting day. The fast gives rest to their digestive system and prevents them from constipation.

Insects, tiny fish, amphibians, and crabs betta’s diet. Their food consists of smaller insects, and shrimp fish as they mature.

The Adult betta diet consists of heavy protein and live food such as invertebrates and daphnia. Captive fish will normally accept dried products once they’re edible, but you should offer live food and frozen dried food such as Daphnia, Artemia, or Bloodworm, you can offer anything to fish but the food has proper nutritional value. Sometimes you can offer adult betta an earthworm, but do not overfeed Betta because it leads to obesity.

betta should be fed reasonably with little aggressiveness if their caregivers keep a careful eye on them during feeding times. Prevent competitiveness and injury by avoiding congestion during feeding times.

If you overfeed betta they cause obesity, swim bladder, etc. Betta has a weak immune system and digestion system. Serve a betta small portion of food, if you overfeed the betta, they can develop constipation and bloating. When these conditions develop avoid animal protein, and offer them green boiled peas.

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 because of the 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.