What Are Some of the Best Live Foods to Feed Betta Fish?
When it comes to considering what to feed betta fish, no food is better than live food. That said, however, some kinds of live food are better than others, and some can be downright dangerous. The first consideration is that bettas are natural predators of small insects like mosquitoes and mosquito larvae, gnats and their larvae, and freshwater crustaceans like water fleas and brine shrimp. This makes up the bulk of their diet in the wild, and they have evolved to live off it over the many years they have been in existence. That captive bettas will take dried and flake foods is a very convenient advantage that makes them that much more suitable to keep as pets. Bettas will eat a very wide variety of flake food-even the types deemed “low quality”-as well as dried water fleas, brine shrimp and other such kinds food. As a matter of fact, like many other kinds of aquarium fish renowned for their ease of maintenance and feeding, they can do very well on just these kinds of food, and may eve
