Are japanese fighter fish bottom feeders?

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I have recently bought a japanese fighter who now resides in a tank with several tetra.  He seems to be content and loves his live plants and shipwreck but so far I haven't seen him eat any of the flake food the others eat.  He seems to clean his shipwreck like a house proud fish.  All water tests have proved ideal conditions but he doesn't feed at all from the surface.

catx · Accepted Answer

No, ideally they're top dwellers. If there aren't any tall plants that break the surface of the water (the kind of environment they need) they will lurk nearer the bottom for security - as far as their concerned open water near the surface means they might get eaten by a passing predator.

It's Siamese not Japanese FYI, they originate from Thailand, old Siam, not Japan! 

Get some tall plants like hornwort, vallis or hygrophila, something that touches the surface of the water, he should venture more to the top then.

? · Answer

a school of minnows would totally inventory the ten gallon. you'll not have room for further fish. There at the instantaneous are not really any bottome living fish that would want to stay in a 10 gallon, evan in the journey that they were the purely fish. a million betta and four kuhli loaches or only 5 kuhli loaches with sand substrate would artwork. yet kuhli loaches can no longer stay with minnows because the loaches are tropical fish and the minnows are coldwater fish.

Gary C · Answer

If you mean a Siamese Fighting Fish (Betta splendens), it is not a bottom feeder at all. It might occasionally eat from the bottom, but bettas have a strong preference for surface feeding.
Perhaps the faster-moving tetras have your Betta intimidated.

Dead Babies And Orange Juice · Answer

No, get blood worms for him i bet he will eat that.

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Are japanese fighter fish bottom feeders?

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