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Live food is best for feeding your betta(s). They are better for
your betta, and your betta will like them a lot and I mean a lot more
than feeze dried foods, flakes, pellets, or frozen food. This is because
the food is fresh....wouldn't you prefer fresh food over old food? or
dried up food?Well, there are a few choices you have when it comes to
choosing live foods.
Brine Shrimp:
Brine shrimps (artemia) are an excellent source of food for betta
fry. But they are only good for the first week or so...or until they
use up their food sac. The food sac in the brine shrimp is very good
for betta fry so that is why they are a very good source of food for
betta fry. You can still feed them to your betta fry when their food
sac is all used up...but it just won't be as good for them. To obtain
baby brine shrimps to feed your fry just get some brine shrimp eggs....then
hatch them in a salt water mixture. They can be very good for your bettas
but they don't live very long in your betta's tank....they die within
24 hours of being in there..which will help cause bacteria build up
in the fry tank. Plus they all die within a week,,,and when they do....they
stink like #$@%....LOL.
Hatching Brine Shrimps:
If you don't want to go through the hassel of mixing the eggs with
the salt then I suggest that you go buy the little packets that are
already mixed with salt and all you have to do is mix it in a quart
of water, plug in a air stone and wait for 24 to 36 hours and you should
have living, swimming baby brine shrimps. But if you bought brine
shrimp eggs that haven't been mixed with salt yet then just mix it with
salt...according to the instuctions that came with your bs eggs. Then
just mix it with the amount of water that the instructions tell you
to and plug in a air pump and wait for 24 to 36 hours. Now, there are
serveral ways to hatch the eggs...the most common is to cut the bottom
half of a 2 liter bottle, make a hole on the cap that will fit a airline
perfectly so water doesn't get through the hole with the line in it....and
mix your eggs, salt and water in there and plug in a air pump and wait.
Then there's also just a flat container with an air pump hooked up to
it. There are several methods but these two are my two personal favorites.
Infusoria
These are just mirco organisms, that you can culture by placing a
few boiled lettuce leaves in a jar of aged water. Then you just leave
it in direct sunlight for a few days...about 3 or 4 and there should
be a green cloudy thing in your jar....that would be your infusoria.
You can now suck up the green cloudy thing you see...and feed it to
your fry. But I do not recommend feeding infusoria to your fry...why?
you ask?...well for one thing you can;t really tell the difference between
infusoria and bacteria...so basically what you're feeding to your betta
fry can be bacteria....and second, they @#$@ smell like %$@#!!! I recommend
brine shrimp or daphnia instead.
Daphnia:
Daphnia are tiny crustaceans, and are also an excellent source of
food for both betta fry and betta. Plus they even help rid the tank
of bacteria as well. They will eat bacteria that is in the tank and
any other micro organisms as well. Plus they will live in your betta's
tank for a while. To culture daphnia you'll have to buy a culture from
a breeder or obtain them somehow. You can culture them in a 10 gallon
tank that has algae in it. Just add a little aeration to it and they
should start to multiply.
Mosquito larva:
These are also an excellent source of food for grown up bettas. But
they are not every easy to get your hands on. Unless you live near somewhere
that has a lot of mosquitoes. Or you could always culture your own...but
that won't be a ber good idea. Unless of course you would like to get
biten by mosquitoes than maybe you can culture some. But if you want
to culture some all you have to do is leave a a large container dilled
with watr in there and leave it somewhere damp in your backyard. Just
check back a few dats later and there should be some mosquito larva.
Again I really do not recommend culturing mosquitoes...as there is already
enough mosquitoes out there. To feed them just rinse them throughy in
cold running tap water and feed them to your bettas.
Blood Worms:
Blood worms are just loved by bettas.... and provide as good food
for bettas as well. I haven't tried to cuture these...because for one
thing they stink...since they are actually sewer worms. Plus if you
were to culture them you would have to feed them poop....such as cow
poop...would you want to be handling that?????I know I wouldn't. Also
if you were to culture them in your house...lets just say they will
stink up your whole house. To feed them just rinse them trhoughly in
running tap water...since they do carry disease and bacteria with them.
That's all I have for live foods for now...please check back within
a week and I should have something new up. by the way if you have any
useful information about these live foods than email them to me and I
will put them up giving credit to you.
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