Is it normal?

[frogipoi]

When I feed my betta it eats the food and starts pushing it's head back 3-8 times. Is this normal?

[Dead Sunlight]

Yea, it's chewing the food.

[frogipoi]

Good! Aqua doesn't do it as much as Aurora. But Aqua is older.

[Dead Sunlight]

Are u feeding both of them the same food?

I only see my bettas do it when they are eating pellets.

Dead Sunlight doesn't do it much either, no worries.

[frogipoi]

Pellets and flakes (they hate flakes) Aurora is 3.5 months old so he is 1.5 months younger than Aqua!

[Campbell]

My male does it a lot more than my female. I don't think it has anything to do with age. I've had him a week and my female is almost two.

[frogipoi]

I guess it depends about the bigger mouth?