Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ptsfa!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: alt.aquaria Subject: Re: Bettas Keywords: din dins Message-ID: <12556@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 3 Jan 88 20:06:12 GMT References: <2019@gryphon.CTS.COM> Reply-To: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst) Distribution: alt Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 18 In article <2019@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >They are pure carnivores... and need absolutly no vegetable matter.... All my books disagree with this. In the wild, it is true that bettas do not eat plants. That's because they get their quota of vegetables in the digestive tracts of the other animals they eat. In captivity, they need a balanced high- protein diet based on meat, with artifically added vegetable matter. I've noticed that many of the freeze-dried products do have added vegetable matter, and that seems to do the job. Of course, if you are the ambitious type that strains live mosquito larvea out of the storm drains, you're all set. >Lots of work, but worth it. Yes! Even though I keep my betta in a filtered tank, he loves the attention of being hand fed.