Bettas are naturally meat eaters.
Their diet consists of tiny invertebrates such as insects, worms and crustaceans.
Bettas are surface feeders and their foods are the floating types.
There is a wide variety of foods available in stores you can choose for feeding betta fish.
Basically, fish food comes in several forms including dry, frozen, freeze-dried and live foods.
You can find suitable betta food in dry form such as flakes and pellets for feeding betta fish.
Flakes can be crushed between your fingers to become smaller flakes or even powder form.
Pellets obtained from stores are usually packed in convenient dispenser packages that allow you to tap out one pellet at a time.
This form of packaging is convenient to be used for small feeds.
If you are giving one betta food, one pellet is sufficient for one feeding.
Pellet is considered as the most convenient form of food.
As betta has a small mouth, very small pellets should be selected for its food.
Frozen betta food available in stores includes brine shrimps and bloodworms.
The disadvantage of this form of food is that it is difficult to obtain a small portion to feed just one betta in a bowl.
It is easier to use this type of food for feeding several fishes.
If you are feeding your betta with other fishes, you can leave a small piece of frozen food in a little water to defrost.
When it is defrosted, you can sieve out one or two worms or shrimps for your betta and use the rest to feed the other fishes.
Frozen foods must always be kept frozen.
It is advisable not to thaw and refreeze these foods.
Blood worm is the most common type frozen food for betta.
Freeze-dried betta food is very convenient to use.
You can simply pick one or two free-dried bloodworms or shrimps and drop it into the container for your betta.
Freeze-dried foods should be kept in airtight containers.
Live food suitable for feeding includes shrimps, bloodworms and mosquito larvae.
Some live foods can remain alive for a period of time in the water and allow your betta to be fed over a period of time.
There is no fear of these organisms decomposing and making the water dirty.
As seen from the above, there are many kinds of betta foods available.
You can select the types most suitable for your use.
Bettas survive well with live foods as well as prepared foods.
All these food can provide proper nutrition for them.