Food vz Rate of growth of bettas

[Foo Hong]

Read some where before on a discus article. experiment done on discus young over 1 month fed with 4 diff type of food - tubifex, Beefheart mix, bloodworms[not sure if frozen], frozen brine artemia.

after 1 month it was found that those fed tubifex and beefheart grew larger quickly, almost equal. the slowest growth were those fed artemia.

Applying it bettas does make sense too. Dr Sun/president of discus club once said that Jack Wattley find tubifex the best food. but teh problem is all discus hobbyist never dare to feed this to their discus. <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>:)<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>:)<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>:)<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>:)<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

[Samuel Phan]

I used to be into discus and yes ... different kind of food have been used to feed the discus.

Beefheart mix, blood worms and tubifex are normally for the bigger fish.
Artemia is fed to the baby discus only until they are big enuf for other food.

But most of the food used are all frozen and almost always from Hikari. Reason is because discus are very prone to disease ... so cannot take chance by using live food that are not sterilize.

So far ... frozen tubifex is used not maybe because of the supply and also discus still prefer blood-worms.

Personally, still find tubifex and bllodworms good growth food for the betta. But for Beef-Heart ... dun use it as the sole diet for your betta ... they kinda cause the ballon effect on betta just like excessive feeding with tubifex. Reason is that they both contain too much fats.

With Best Regards,
Samuel Phan

quote:
Read some where before on a discus article. experiment done on discus young over 1 month fed with 4 diff type of food - tubifex, Beefheart mix, bloodworms[not sure if frozen], frozen brine artemia.

after 1 month it was found that those fed tubifex and beefheart grew larger quickly, almost equal. the slowest growth were those fed artemia.

Applying it bettas does make sense too. Dr Sun/president of discus club once said that Jack Wattley find tubifex the best food. but teh problem is all discus hobbyist never dare to feed this to their discus. <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>:)<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>:)<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>:)<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>:)<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>




Samuel Phan **** Chiat
(Creator Of Sam's Betta Colour Rendezvous)

Edited by - samuelphan on 13 May 2002 10:16:23

[Myron Tay]

Strongly suggest at least two types of different foods (i.e. live bloodworms and frozen bloodworms constitute one type of food, not two). I am presently using frozen bloodworms and frozen brine shrimp. And the occasional mosquito / mostquito larvae I manage to find. :)

[Samuel Phan]

Hi Myron,

may I ask how readily does your fries take in the frozen food? Mine seems to be so used to live food that frozen food are let at the bottom of the fry tank to rot and foul the water.

End up ... have to constantly feed them with live daphnia.

have you also tried the super fine fry food??? powder form?

With Best Regards,
Samuel Phan
quote:
Strongly suggest at least two types of different foods (i.e. live bloodworms and frozen bloodworms constitute one type of food, not two). I am presently using frozen bloodworms and frozen brine shrimp. And the occasional mosquito / mostquito larvae I manage to find. :)




Samuel Phan **** Chiat
(Creator Of Sam's Betta Colour Rendezvous)

[Myron Tay]

Fries, err...no I was talking about the adults.

For fries, they only take live foods. Again I am using two types of live foods for them: newly hatched brine shrimp and live microworms. Have tried feeding fries frozen brime shrimp (cut into small little pieces with a scissors, but no way they are going to touch that. Have not tried the dried powdered foods. My guess is that if it does not move, your fries would not be interested.

quote:
Hi Myron,

may I ask how readily does your fries take in the frozen food? Mine seems to be so used to live food that frozen food are let at the bottom of the fry tank to rot and foul the water.

End up ... have to constantly feed them with live daphnia.

have you also tried the super fine fry food??? powder form?

With Best Regards,
Samuel Phan
quote:
Strongly suggest at least two types of different foods (i.e. live bloodworms and frozen bloodworms constitute one type of food, not two). I am presently using frozen bloodworms and frozen brine shrimp. And the occasional mosquito / mostquito larvae I manage to find. :)




Samuel Phan **** Chiat
(Creator Of Sam's Betta Colour Rendezvous)

[Samuel Phan]

:) ... yep ... fries seems to fancy only the live food.
The pwder food will only sink to the bottom without being eaten and starts moulding the next day.

So far ... sticking to a pure daphnia diet ... microworms only on the initial 1 to 2 days.

quote:
Fries, err...no I was talking about the adults.

For fries, they only take live foods. Again I am using two types of live foods for them: newly hatched brine shrimp and live microworms. Have tried feeding fries frozen brime shrimp (cut into small little pieces with a scissors, but no way they are going to touch that. Have not tried the dried powdered foods. My guess is that if it does not move, your fries would not be interested.

quote:
Hi Myron,

may I ask how readily does your fries take in the frozen food? Mine seems to be so used to live food that frozen food are let at the bottom of the fry tank to rot and foul the water.

End up ... have to constantly feed them with live daphnia.

have you also tried the super fine fry food??? powder form?

With Best Regards,
Samuel Phan
quote:
Strongly suggest at least two types of different foods (i.e. live bloodworms and frozen bloodworms constitute one type of food, not two). I am presently using frozen bloodworms and frozen brine shrimp. And the occasional mosquito / mostquito larvae I manage to find. :)




Samuel Phan **** Chiat
(Creator Of Sam's Betta Colour Rendezvous)





Samuel Phan **** Chiat
(Creator Of Sam's Betta Colour Rendezvous)