Betta Fish Spitting Out Food

Why is he doing this.

Betta fish spitting out food. However this doesn t mean he s not eating. Betta fish are primarily carnivorous and they need a diet that s rich in meaty protein. He is probobly seeking a little attention. Even if he keeps spitting out food dont worry.

Your fish might just not be hungry. Sometimes he may be taking small bites out of the food. Why is your betta fish spitting food out. My suggestion is to switch to a different type of betta food and give him a treat often like blood worms.

He likes the brine shrimp a lot better and since they are freeze dried you don t have to worry about the parasites that can be present in live or frozen brine shrimp the kind you would have to keep in a freezer. I had a possible. In the wild betta fish eat insects and insect larvae as well as a little bit of plant matter. My betta chews on his food a little and then spits it back out.

They do not eat as much as we think they do. My fish splash hates flakes and will only eat pellets. That diet offers the fish the protein that he needs as well as providing roughage in the form of the insects exoskeletons and wings. Most common reason the most common reason your betta is spitting out food is simply that it s too big.

Hello i am pretty new here. So in a lot of cases your betta will spit food out a couple of times because he literally can t swallow it. And when you over feed your fish and that food gets spit out it sinks to the bottom of your tank and makes for bad water. Also remember the betta fish stomach is only the size of their eyeball and it takes these fish literally 2 weeks to starve to death.

Your betta s stomach is roughly the size of its eyeball and some pellets are even bigger than that. Atleast your fish is giving an effort. So when your fish gets a mouthful of dry flakes that don t contain the nutrition that he needs he may start spitting out food. It would take a heck of a lot of starvation to kill these fish due to not eating.

Bettas often do not prefer flakes and will eat them at the last resort. He looks to be healthy and the water was within normal limits. My last fish did not eat for like 1 week. The tank has a.

My tank is on the small side at 2 5 gallons so sorry about that i didn t realize that it was the bare minimum until i came across this forum.