what do you feed your bettas

[hanapaa]

i currently have 5 bettas
4 common
1 split tail

im currently feeding them hikari frozen bloodworms
what do you recomend i feed them?
is there anything that can bring out the color more?

btw: im looking for a HM and crowntail
thanks

[yellow tang]

my 3 year old daughter feed her betta with small pcs of pear:D

[zhiz22]

are you from singapore?

anyway hikari frozen worms would do fine. you may want to try pellets or flakes, or frozen brineshrimp but once they tasted frozen bloodworms they dun like to eat other stuff...

[hanapaa]

thanks
i tried hikari pellets, betta flakes, etc
and they didnt like them at all. when i feed them the bloodworms they ate like there was no tomarrow.

is there anything i could feed them to enhance their color?

btw: im from hawaii

[zhiz22]

basically if they have almond leaves in their tank, giving them the soft acidic water or blackwater they tend to really blossom. but they are would really simply show their true color by normal feeding and regular flaring. flaring is when the color all comes out.

[SanJi]

where to find almond leaves? can use balckwater extract for replacement???
:D

[tltan]

Hi, i think black water extract works as well as the real thing. Just buy a bottle and save going to pick up leaves lah. But all the "unknown" properties of the real ketapang leaves eg. medicinal etc. cannot be mimicked by blackwater extract.

However, the adding of blackwater extract did calm down one of the bettas which i recently brought in and made it blow lotsa bubbles. So give it a try...i used tetra blackwater extract. because i bought and never used bfore so decided to try it out.

Normal feeding would do fine for these fishes. bloodworms.

[zhiz22]

has anyone got any results of spawn after using blackwater to induce spawning?

what is the result of your fries? any abnormality?

[SanJi]

Originally posted by tltan
Hi, i think black water extract works as well as the real thing. Just buy a bottle and save going to pick up leaves lah. But all the "unknown" properties of the real ketapang leaves eg. medicinal etc. cannot be mimicked by blackwater extract.

However, the adding of blackwater extract did calm down one of the bettas which i recently brought in and made it blow lotsa bubbles. So give it a try...i used tetra blackwater extract. because i bought and never used bfore so decided to try it out.

Normal feeding would do fine for these fishes. bloodworms.

thank you. well i know nuts about Bettas.
do you mean the more bubbles they blow the better? why?

what is the mex. lifespan of one Betta?
:D

[BettaRascal]

Originally posted by zhiz22
has anyone got any results of spawn after using blackwater to induce spawning?

what is the result of your fries? any abnormality?

whole spawn ventraless

[zhiz22]

Thank Bettarascal.

everyone including tltan

please note this.

Blackwater can burn the ventrals. dun think you hear this from anywhere else. a top breeder told me this.

bettarascal has direct experience. up to you to believe or not.

i have a spawn partially no ventral maybe coz of that but i didnt use much la.

[BettaRascal]

its quite jialat. nice fishes without ventral fins.
i never believe in using black water extract, its more of a lazy alternative to ketapang leaves. never trust whats written on the bottle, you may not know wad has been added to the extract.

i have no topclass advisors, nor do i read any websites, i do things the traditional, ahpek's way.
so top breeder's and ahpek's advices both proves the same point. believe it or not, its up to u.:)

[tltan]

Ic. so dont use black water extract? even for adult fish?

Anyway,
my last 2 spawns all used a little black water extract in spawn tank...for the spawning only. after that no more liao...change fresh water...hehe all got ventrals... heng ah.

Cheers,
tltan

[zhiz22]

adult can la....but for fries especially when the ventrals are growing maybe not.

ya, maybe coz you lucky did good water changes.

advice better listen then stubborn

[LamHK]

Hey BettaRascal

Thks for sharing with us, man. Never noe that black water an give this problem.

Lam

[zhiz22]

a lot of breeding tips breeders will keep tightly in their pocket for fear that ppl may become better than them.
its true.
some also dun sell females.

but we hobbist dun care really much, so long all can enjoy the hobby!!

[tltan]

okok
thanks man.

Wont use black water again for breeding tanks.

Cheers,
tltan

[hanapaa]

this might be a stupid question but
what is ventrals?

[tltan]

ventrals is the 2 dangling things.hehe
it is the 2 fins below the cheek or gills of the fish.

[SanJi]

can someone here enlighten me about Bettas blowing bubbles?
the more bubbles the merrier???

feeding frequency of betta?

to keep pair than keeping only one? for flaring purpose?

lifespan of betta?
:D

[zhiz22]

www.bettatalk.com
www.bettarus.com
bettapassion.topcities.com
www.bettaclubsingapore.com
www.bettastarz.com

read up more on the net!! really useful

[SanJi]

Originally posted by zhiz22
www.bettatalk.com
www.bettarus.com
bettapassion.topcities.com
www.bettaclubsingapore.com
www.bettastarz.com

read up more on the net!! really useful


ok thanks
:D

[BettaRascal]

its not a matter whether they keep the advice or not. for me, its a learning process, and i know many people who just started will encounter such problems gradually. Anyway, use blackwater or not is really up to the person also.
for me, its the good old ketapang leaves that i trust. i know people will say busy cannot go pick leaves, i myself also rather busy these few months, but its just good to make an effort to go collect the leaves. or maybe i am just another bettafreak.

[hanapaa]

i dont think we have those leaves here in hawaii

[PsychoticBetta]

what do ketapang leaves really look like when they're fresh?.....what about the trees?...i suspect my block downstairs is full of those trees... :D

[jogn]

hanapaa, we do have the ketapang trees on oahu. i have gone to pick at some places around the island, too bad i just deleted a digital pic i had of it, ill try to take another later on.

[LamHK]

U can go 2 http://bettasonli.netfirms.com/article7.html 2 know more abt Ketpang leaves. Btw there's a pic of e leaf.

Lam