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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Bettas
Keywords: din dins
Message-ID: <2019@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 2 Jan 88 17:54:04 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, Ca.
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Bettas eat primarily insect larvae in the wild, so the best food for
them would be --- insect larvae.

They are pure carnivores, have a very short digestive tract and need
absolutly no vegetable matter (they dont wear womens fox fur coats though)

I would feed them frozen bloodworms (the chronomious midge larvae
you get in fish stores, not the giant earthworms you use as bait
when you go fishing) - thaw some out un a paper towel under cool
running water. Feed the whole, intact larvae to the betta in quastion
with a pair of tweezers. Lots of work, but woth it. Frozen mosquito
larvae arnt accepted as readily. I have had mine eat adult brine shrimp,
but remember, there is actually very little food value to an adult
brine shrimp, they are mostly fibre and shell. Small strips
of beef heart are a good (betta) food also. With bettas usually
being in such small containers, it usually makes sense to hand feed
them, rather than just throw the food in, as even 1 piece of
uneaten food can foul the container.


-- 
    It's too far from Santa Fe to my ignition, or something like that. 
                          richard@gryphon.CTS.COM
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