Serving Food

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 a balanced diet that caters to their unique nutritional requirements at each stage of life.

Set up a regular feeding routine. Several variables, including whether the betta is young or

adult, male or female because each has its nutritional requirements, affecting how often it is fed.

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.

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.

Make enrichment a part of your feeding schedule. To do this, you may use mechanisms that make the betta work for their food, much as they would in the wild, or you can move the food to various spots in the tank.

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 a betta, they can develop constipation and bloating. When these conditions develop, avoid animal protein, and offer them green boiled peas.

They help treat the symptoms. You can skip food for days to a quick recovery. Because of their weak immune system, betta can undergo “fast”, once a week. A betta doesn't feel hungry and without food, she can survive two weeks.