My Betta doesn't accept new foods Help?

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Any idea's on how I can improve my Betta's diet? it seems that he is extremely picky with what I feed him, he will put a lot of the foods I try to feed into his mouth, and then spit it out.
Currently my Betta is eating and only eating high quality food pellets, and he eats them hungrily too, but whenever I try to feed other foods such as blood worms or brine shrimp or other pellet food he simply put it in his mouth and spits it back out.
He runs in a nice 10 gallon tank (I'd like to think so anyway) with an air stone, gravel, fake plants, heater, water filter, a nice decorative piece he likes to hide behind and some other decor. Water Ph is fine, algae is under control with cleaning and some zebra snails, I really don't know what to do to convince him to eat other foods. Any ideas?

Does he even need to eat other foods? Or are simply just the pellets good enough?

noselessman · Accepted Answer

How long have you had him/ been trying to feed him other foods?

I would suggest you try Completely thawed out frozen bloodworms every week,  chances are good he will one day be more open to new things.It could take him a while to want to experimant.
Hopefully the pellets are actually high quality.  Are the new life spectra?  if not, I suggest you get some new life spectra thera plus A, and add those to his diet with the food he already eats, and try a blood worm or 2 every week.

Does he even need to eat other foods? - no fish food is perfect, no comprihensive scientific studies have been done to determine exactly what your fish needs to thrive.  No one knows for sure how much nutrition remains in the dried foods or for how long.  The wider the variety, the more likely it is that he gets what he needs.

Anonymous · Answer

1. You overfeed
2. You feed too much
3. You put excess food in the tank
4. You are giving the fish more food than it needs
5. When a  fish refuses food, it had been overfed 10 times too much food

My point, feed less.

Note: try frozen bloodworms after you stop overfeeding.

? · Answer

It's a fish. Feed it one thing and be done with it.

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My Betta doesn't accept new foods Help?

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