Let this pics show you how these bettas struggles to get the worms.
Betta splendens love worm so much. It is a delicious food.... yum.. yum.. yumi..
Showing posts with label feeding betta splenden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feeding betta splenden. Show all posts
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Let this pics show you how these bettas struggles to get the worms.Tuesday, March 1, 2011
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| Tubifex worm |
You should have heard tubifex worms. Smooth red worms and live in clotted group. This worm is very clearly visible in the sewage or gutter and waving like a tassel by water's flow.
This worm is another type of betta splendens fish favorite food. Betta will look vibrant and difficult to stop biting this tubifex worm lump.
This worm is fleshy and of course it highly contains protein that will make betta splendens become more healthy.
Behind its high protein content, tubifex also have harmful effects to betta splendens fish. One of my experience is when the tubifex worm looks come out from my betta's gill and it makes betta splendens fish pain. Betta splendens fish becomes wild and move in disorder path. Mishandled on this situation can lead to the dead of betta splendens. Provide assistance by removing the betta splendens from the tank when it happen and slowly pull the worms out of its gill.
This incident could be happened when giving betta splendens with excessive tubifex worms at once. Betta splendens will look excited when fed with tubifex and betta splendens will bite the worm brutally and greedy. Betta splendens fish takes another biting before completely swallowed its first biting. In same time the worm is still alive in betta's mouth and will try to get out and sometimes it comes out from betta's gill
This worm is another type of betta splendens fish favorite food. Betta will look vibrant and difficult to stop biting this tubifex worm lump.
This worm is fleshy and of course it highly contains protein that will make betta splendens become more healthy.
Behind its high protein content, tubifex also have harmful effects to betta splendens fish. One of my experience is when the tubifex worm looks come out from my betta's gill and it makes betta splendens fish pain. Betta splendens fish becomes wild and move in disorder path. Mishandled on this situation can lead to the dead of betta splendens. Provide assistance by removing the betta splendens from the tank when it happen and slowly pull the worms out of its gill.
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| Tubifex worm in water |
This incident could be happened when giving betta splendens with excessive tubifex worms at once. Betta splendens will look excited when fed with tubifex and betta splendens will bite the worm brutally and greedy. Betta splendens fish takes another biting before completely swallowed its first biting. In same time the worm is still alive in betta's mouth and will try to get out and sometimes it comes out from betta's gill
Remember, worms can grow and live with only part of its body.
To prevent this from happening can be by giving tubifex worms to betta splendens bit by bit so it can eat and swallow the worm properly before having next small lump of tubifex.
Another important thing needs to give concern when feeding betta splendens fish with tubifex is the cleanness. Tubifex live with various bacterial and virus in the sewage. Make sure the tubifex is already flushed before giving to betta splendens fish and it will help to ignore bacterial and virus attack .
Thursday, February 3, 2011
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| Mosquito Larvae |
Mosquito larvae or wigglers is one of betta splenden favorite food. Betta Splenden will look happy
and move swiftly to eat the larvaes one by one. Mosquito larvae is a healthy and nutritious meal for Betta with protein content about 15% and 7% fat. Mosquito larvae is also good to increase betta splenden's agility.
Mosquito larvae is a cheap food and can be obtained from a pool of water or long stagnant water where mosquitoes like to lay their eggs. The important thing to remember before feeding Betta with this larvae is to ensure the larvae is in clean condition before given to Betta splendens and it can be done by filtering and washing the larvae with clean water.
Mosquito larvae has a lifetime of about 5 to 7 days or longer before they become mosquitoes in a cycle of egg-larvae-pupa-mosquito-egg. Choose right size of larvae for your betta splendens size, younger larvae is smaller and more appropriate for younger betta splendens. It is better to mosquito pupae to give betta splendens if available ( but this cycle is shorten in mosquito life cycle) which have more agile movement that will make betta splendens become busier and keep moving.
Seven to ten larvaes with 0.5 cm long is enough for an adult and normal size betta. It is difficult for Betta splendens to control his appetite when fed with mosquito larvae and betta splendens will continue to eat even though his stomach was distended and eventually they become lazy to move. That's why need to control number of larvae given.
and move swiftly to eat the larvaes one by one. Mosquito larvae is a healthy and nutritious meal for Betta with protein content about 15% and 7% fat. Mosquito larvae is also good to increase betta splenden's agility.
Mosquito larvae is a cheap food and can be obtained from a pool of water or long stagnant water where mosquitoes like to lay their eggs. The important thing to remember before feeding Betta with this larvae is to ensure the larvae is in clean condition before given to Betta splendens and it can be done by filtering and washing the larvae with clean water.
Mosquito larvae has a lifetime of about 5 to 7 days or longer before they become mosquitoes in a cycle of egg-larvae-pupa-mosquito-egg. Choose right size of larvae for your betta splendens size, younger larvae is smaller and more appropriate for younger betta splendens. It is better to mosquito pupae to give betta splendens if available ( but this cycle is shorten in mosquito life cycle) which have more agile movement that will make betta splendens become busier and keep moving.
Seven to ten larvaes with 0.5 cm long is enough for an adult and normal size betta. It is difficult for Betta splendens to control his appetite when fed with mosquito larvae and betta splendens will continue to eat even though his stomach was distended and eventually they become lazy to move. That's why need to control number of larvae given.
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