Betta Spitting Out Food Pellets

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Betta spitting out food pellets. One of the best things about these pellets is that aside from a few pellets that like to do their own thing they float. However this doesn t mean he s not eating. I mix it with blood worms. Sometimes he may be taking small bites out of the food.

If flakes aren t your betta s style then you should check out betta food pellets. Sometimes betta owners become concerned when they see that their pet is spitting out his food. These hikari betta bio gold baby pellets in particular have always been very well received by all of my bettas even the picky eaters. I just get a betta from petsmart about 2 weeks ago he is a blue turquoise twintail halfmoon named boba.

I mix it with blood worms. When your fish is accepting that you can introduce a small number of pellets or flake foods. Your betta s stomach is roughly the size of its eyeball and some pellets are even bigger than that. Go to walmart or your local pet store and purchase some dried shrimp for turtles or else bloodworms for your betta.

You need to get some real food into your fish. 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. Most times that s because the fish has literally bitten off more than he can chew.

The most common reason your betta is spitting out food is simply that it s too big. This way you can see how much your betta has. What is most likely happening is your betta fish just really isn t that hungry or else doesn t like the food. 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.

You never mentioned what you are feeding him but i m going to take a guess on either flakes or pellets.