How Do You Feed Your Betta Fish

As you might know, betta fish are mainly a carnivorous fish. They need a diet that is high in protein and can be raised on several different varieties of food. Betta fish are not big eaters but some expert recommended that you should fed them a small amount 1-2 times a day to once every other day. Making sure not to over feed.

Commonly, betta fish can be fed from frozen, freeze dried, pellets, flakes and live food like black worms, or frozen brine shrimp. There are a variety of other foods available at your local fish store. We'll go through the options that you can choose from.

Freeze dried food
Freeze dried food such as brine shrimp, blood worms, daphnia and plankton are popular choices, not only with Bettas, but also with most Betta keepers. Being that they are freeze dried gives you the comfort of knowing that all bacteria, diseases and parasites have been destroyed and eliminated. They are easy to find, use and store.

Frozen foods
Frozen foods like, brine shrimp, blood worms, beef heart are the most widely used. Bear in mind when using frozen foods. Just because it's frozen does not mean that all the bacteria or diseases have been destroyed. While most harmful germs will have been eliminated by the freezing process, bacteria and disease can still survive and cause harm once ingested by your Betta. The benefits of using frozen foods are the ease in which you can store them. Simply cut off a small portion when feeding time comes, and store the rest back in the freezer for future use.

Pellets
Betta pellets are also a very common type of food for Bettas. They usually contain a mashed up mixture of, brine shrimp, fish meal, shrimp meal, blood worms and added vitamins and nutrients. They contain everything to maintain a healthy fish. But remember, variety is the key to raising an active, healthy Betta. So always keep that in mind when choosing your Bettas diet.

Flakes
Flakes would be another food option to consider. Like the pellets, they contain a mixture of ingredients, all aiding in meeting your Bettas needs. There are mixed reviews when it comes to using flakes. Some keepers report that their Bettas won't eat them, while others have reported that they work just fine.

Like most living things, every Betta will have different favorite foods that they love. No matter what foods you decide on, be sure to give your Betta a variety of different kinds. This will keep your fish healthier, active and happier, therefore promote more vibrant colors. You'll have to experiment with some different varieties to see what your Betta will, and will not eat.

What Kind of Plants Should I Put in my Betta Fish Tank?

Adding live plants to a betta fish tank aquarium does more than just improve aesthetics but it also provide shelter, food for vegetarian fish, and prevent green water. Plants also muffle up carbon dioxide, waste products, contribute oxygen to the water, and promote the growth of algae, tiny worms, rotifers, and protozoa, providing live food for the fish.

Real Plants

Using real plants is a good source of oxygen for your betta, especially if you don’t use aeration. Bear in mind, when adding live plant for your bowl, don’t overload with it. Why? Because the betta fish have developed the ability to breathe air and use organ on top their head called a labyrinth organ to gather oxygen form the surface. Imagine if you have your tank or bowl overloaded with plants, thus covering the surface on top of it, it could prevent your betta from reaching the surface to get the oxygen they need, and they will literally drown!.

For that said, it is recommended that you do have at least one plant in their tank or bowl. Some varieties of plants that you can put in with your Betta’s include: peace water lilies, Chinese evergreens, water sprites, philodendrons, photos plant, java fern plants. You can't just put any kind of plant in with your Betta. If you in doubt, check with your local fish store or vet and ask for help.

Artificial Plants

Although using real plants provide many positive advantages and features, they also create more maintenance on your part. Just like any other plant, they can not breakdown, die or require trimming. Using artificial plants require only that you clean them up properly. While they do not produce oxygen or assist in breakdown of your betta waste, they also do not produce dirt. When choosing artificial plants, try choosing with silky and soft material. This will eliminate the changes of tearing or cutting your betta fins on the sharp of plastic plants.
If you are getting started, I would suggest you go with artificial plant. There huge selection on the net or you can simply visit your local pet store to find it.

Properly Introduce New Betta Fish into Your Aquarium Tank

You've been to the pet store or looking at fish pet online stores and noticed a beautiful betta fish, so you’ve decided to buy it and when you get back home, you just throw away that fish into an aquarium. Nope, that’s a bad idea. To prevent shock or stress or event death, you have properly introduced a new betta fish into a fish tank or fish bowl.

When you bring your betta home, place the entire bag into the tank or bowl and allow it to float there just about 10-20 minutes. This allows time for the water temperature to become similar with the temperature and pH of the aquarium water. This will help reduce the amount of stress imposed on the fish. Stressed betta fish often leads to dead fish! Don’t feed beta fish on the first day. They probably wouldn’t eat any food on the first day anyway. Let them get acquainted with their new home.

Be prepared to spend some time once every week or two to clean your tank. Performing regular water changes will keep your betta fish happy and healthy. Remember that the key to successful fish keeping is happy, stress-free fish.

Betta Fish Tank Selection and Set Up

Many expert aquarists debate on whether the betta fish should be kept in aquarium tanks or bowls, since their natural environment consists of "small, shallow areas of water". However their natural environment, while being shallow, is often on wide area. This does not mean a large tank is not suitable for a betta or a large tank or bowl would be better for the betta fish. So, we’ll start with getting betta bowl ready.

Bowl Selection

When choosing a bowl for your bettas, it’s best to have at least 1.5-2 gallon minimum size. Getting smaller and more bounding will not only shorten you betta’s life, but it also dramatically increase the chances if having many more health issues for your fish. The smaller the bowl, the faster the toxin will build up and could harm your betta fish.

The shape of the bowl is not important, as long as the minimum size is met. Although the shape is not quite important, you must be sure that your betta fish have enough oxygen. This is one of the reasons why many experts are against keeping bettas in limited space.

Fish Tank Setup

If you choose or decided to use an actual aquarium fish tank, the selection is relatively easy. A 5 or 10 gallon is sufficient for raising your betta fish. But make sure that you clean and rinse the tank out thoroughly, as well as anything that will be going in such as, plant, rock, gravel, and other aquarium decoration and ornament. You can still choose to go without aeration, filtration or even heating system, but eventually you can easily add these items to your aquarium fish tank, which will provide your fish with a better environment.

Getting to Know The Betta Fish

If you are just starting in fish care and aquariums, you want to learn minimal details on starter fish. Everyone has their own notion as to which fish are best for beginners, but if you want to feed a fancier fish and relatively easy to maintain, why don’t you take a look closer of Betta Fish for starters.

Betta Fish (ikan bettah) have been around over the years and one of the most popular and unique species of freshwater fish that people love to keep. There are 28 know species of betta fish, and the best known betta species is B. Splendens or The Siamese Fighting Fish. Yeah... this type of fish enjoys fighting. But in contrary, the betta rarely fight to the death although they sill fight in the wild habitat, but most the times the losing one will simply admitted defeat by moving on and go away. However, they will fight to the death if they are placed in a bowl or limited space tank together because their no place for the looser to retreat. They are territorial fish, therefore, will defend their territory like any other animal.

So, how long do betta fish live? Commonly, Betta fish have an average life around 2-3 years and if you maintaining a clean environment for your Betta will help increase their longevity to possible 4-5 years. All the Betta species are small fishes, but they vary considerably in size, ranging from under 2.5 cm (1 inch) total length to five inches in size.

Male Betta fish are generally more colorful with red, blue, turquoise, orange, yellow, white, green and many other colors in various combinations are widely available and they also have much larger fins than females. Females have short fins, and when viewed in aquarium shops or in a stressed condition they appear to lack color. But once in a suitable tank and have settled in their colors will come through also.

Betta fish can be kept alone in bowls (the larger the better) or tanks without filtration as long as frequent partial water changes are done. They do need warm temperatures with a constant heat supply if the room is less than about 750F.

Another thing, Betta fish curious creatures. They enjoy exploring every corner and gap of their tanks. They appreciate live plants and caves to swim around and through. You will notice they will sit on, lean on, or "claim" some of the aquarium object. They are quite peaceful and will get along with most other fish which are not fin nippers or that look like them. Betta will flare out the sides of their faces to warn other fish not to mess with them or if they see an object that they mistake for another Betta.

Well, hopefully that gives you a little introduction into this wonderful fish. For that said, this site will give you more information you need to start to take care and raise a Betta Fish with healthy environment for your newly fish friend. So, stick around a little bit on this site for more info.

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Everyone has their own notion as to which fish are best for starters, but many people become interested in keeping The Betta Fish and fish in general because of relatively ease to care compared with other pets. Some people think that Beta fish are beutiful creatures.

Like any other living creature, though, these fish have needs. You should not  buy and bring a betta fish into your home unless you are willing to spend the time feeding it each day and doing water changes when necessary, that means betta fish demand a lot of care, attention and responsibilities as well
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