Yes, I've read the Betta Care sticky...
I just want to make sure I'm doing the right thing...I really want this fish to live as long as possible because she is loved dearly by my 6 year old daughter.
We have a female betta named Rose. She lives in a 3 gallon tank with filter and heater. She is a very lively fish, always dashing around and never still (that I have seen).
From what I've read, we seem to be feeding her the proper amount. We planned on feeding her 3 pellets twice a day with once fast day a week. There is some variation in advice on betta feeding online, but this seemed like a decent average of what people are saying. The thing is...everyone also mentions, "feed them no more than they can eat in two minutes.." Our Rose gobbles up her three pellets in about 6 seconds. When you hold the food jar up to her cage she starts pacing frantically and swims up to the surface. I worry that because she's such an active fish, the one fast day per week might be hard on her. Far from worrying about food clogging up her tank...in the two weeks that we've had her a stray pellet has yet to touch the ground.
What do you think...feed this fish more and do a fast day? Skip the fast day? Or just keep doing what we're doing? I don't want to overfeed her...but I don't want to starve her either. And her owner is constantly asking me if we're doing everything we can to "keep Rose happy." Oy. This girl loves her fish!
Thanks in advance!
