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Do bettas eat mosquito larvae? What else do they eat?

Mike Ehrmantraut
2021-05-12 00:50:20
Betta fish eat mosquito larvae. Betta fish, which live in the wild, feed on mosquito larvae. Although bettas like to eat mosquito larvae, they usually don't eat adult mosquitoes because they usually don't catch them. If you raise betta fish at home, you can catch some adult mosquitoes for them as food. Besides eating mosquito larvae, fighting fish also like to eat animal feed such as shrimp, red worms, earthworms and mealworms.
Do bettas eat mosquito larvae? What else do they eat?

1. Do bettas eat mosquito larvae

? Bettas like to eat mosquito larvae very much, because they feed on mosquito larvae when they live in the wild. Of course, fighting fish also prefer to eat adult mosquitoes, but because adult mosquitoes are difficult to catch, and the larvae of mosquitoes are on the surface of the water, so the larvae of mosquitoes are the staple food. Home-raised betta fish have difficulty eating mosquito larvae, and breeders can catch some adult mosquitoes to feed them.

2. What else

do bettas eat? Generally speaking, bettas are fed with synthetic feed and live bait. Artificial feed can choose some floating water, because the betta is the upper fish, floating water feed can meet their habits. The live baits can be selected from shrimp, red worms, tubificidae, mealworms, mealworms, water fleas and the like. It is necessary to sterilize and disinfect before feeding live bait to avoid parasitic or bacterial infection.

3. How to feed the betta fish?

The betta fish does not need much food. It is enough to feed the adult betta fish once a day. Because betta is a carnivorous fish, breeders can feed more live bait and less artificial feed. Betta fish do not know hunger and satiety, breeders need to ration feeding, the amount of each feeding in 10 minutes to eat the most appropriate.

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