Predators And Prey

Betta pugnax are carnivores whose diets consist of animal protein-rich food and green leafy food. They include zooplankton, brine shrimp, daphnia, and live food such as insects, mosquitos, small crustaceans, and frozen dried food such as bloodworms.

Like other fishes, betta fishes have two biggest threats: habitat destruction and pollution.

Nowadays limited information on their conservation status and the population is available. They are not declared as a conservation state by the IUCN. They prefer to live in freshwater so the biggest threat to life is pollution and urban waste.

Most of the habitat was destroyed by human activity such as palm oil plantation and industrial

development. Much of these habitats are destroyed by human activity such as chemical exposure; because of that water quality becomes bad; which is harmful to betta because they prefer to live in freshwater.

The predators of large betta fish are cats, fish, newts, salamanders, and birds. The predictors of giant bettas are large fish and seals. Even because of their aggression they kill each other. Sometimes female bettas eat their eggs.

Many of the species have also developed armor, spines, and toxins to deal with threats from predators. Larger reef fish like snapper, grouper, and moray eels commonly consume betta threatened, they generally try to hide or swim away.

Betta fish are harmless to humans; Humans also reduce their number in the wild by capturing them in captivity as pets or fighting with other males. Humans also keep them as pets for entertainment purposes which also affects their population. If you don’t properly care for the betta they will not survive for a long time.