Why isn my betta eating?
There are many reasons why your betta may stop eating. If your betta is new, then sometimes he will not eat for several days, as he adjusts to his new home. If you bought your betta at a pet store, in which he was kept in a little cup, then he is most likely suffering from ammonia poisoning and it may take several days to a week or even longer for him to recover from this and regain his appetite. Some never do recover. The move itself from the pet store to your home is also stressful and may account for your betta’s lack of appetite. It can be helpful to ask the pet store what food they had been feeding your betta and try to get him to eat the same (providing that he was being fed with proper foods in the first place), should he continue to refuse the betta foods that you are offering him. Your betta could be a “picky” eater, preferring one type of pellet to another or bloodworms over pellets and so on. Most trouble will be encountered when trying to feed bettas flake food, which they
There are many reasons why your betta may stop eating. If your betta is new, then sometimes he will not eat for several days, as he adjusts to his new home. If you bought your betta at a pet store, in which he was kept in a little cup, then he is most likely suffering from ammonia poisoning and it may take several days to a week or even longer for him to recover from this and regain his appetite. Some never do recover. The move itself from the pet store to your home is also stressful and may account for your betta’s lack of appetite. It can be helpful to ask the pet store what food they had been feeding your betta and try to get him to eat the same (providing that he was being fed with proper foods in the first place), should he continue to refuse the betta foods that you are offering him. Your betta could be a “picky” eater, preferring one type of pellet to another or bloodworms over pellets and so on.
