I swtiched to frozen Brine shrimp for my betta..?

I split a frozen cube in partly and drop it into the tank. It floats for a few second, then sinks. My betta eat some of it, but most of it drops down, is not eaten and messes the cistern. After a few days of this, the tank is smelling something violent. I started out with pellet and he hated them. He kept spitting them out. I thought that possibly they were too big for him, so I split them surrounded by half. Still he'd singular touch them if he *really* hungry.

So, just wondering if you know of a better method to feed him the frozen brine short messing up the tank too much. And, how much should I be feedig him and how times per light of day. How often should I be cleaning the fish reservoir when feeding this messy brine?

Thanks.


Answers:    You be wise to stop feed your betta pellets. Betta really don't similar to the pelleted food but will eat them if that's adjectives that is offered. It's noteworthy to remove any uneaten food from your bettas tank as the remnants will rot and make the wet toxic with ammonia.

The best staple food for betta food are blood worms. These are the larva of mosquito and is what betta fish eat surrounded by their native Thai rice paddies. Live blood worms are favored by bettas, but freeze dried ones will do. Get the class in the shaker can and nurture 2 - 5 per feeding and nurture once in the morning and once again surrounded by the evening.

You should only nurture brine shrimp in moderation as this food have a laxative effect.
I fed my Betta 4 or 5 pellet 3 times a day, if I feed more it would all sink and he wouldn't devour it anyway. Try defrosting the cube formerly you drop it in the container and I'd only make available him a few @ a time so he has a destiny to eat them past they sink. Then you shouldn't have the "messy" cistern problem. My Betta always took to the pellet, but I guess they're all different.

Also, manufacture sure he's kept @ the proper temp (between 76-85 degrees) and has a proper reservoir (I always recommend no smaller than a 1 gallon tank) but for, they can become listless and not want to eat.
You are over feed. The betta's stomach is as large as one of his eyes. He one and only needs 4 or 5 brine shrimp every other daylight, not half a cube. Solution is to adapt the water and take all the disappeared over shrimp out of the tank. The best instrument to feed frozen brine shrimp is to place the cube contained by a cup until it dissolves, then fish out a few beside a toothpick and then agree to them off of the toothpick one at a time surrounded by the tank. The betta will soon swot up to eat the shrimp right bad the end of the tooth pick. Did you not perceive that half a cube a frozen brine shrimp is bigger than the fish?

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