So when I got my Betta the tank came with a sample size packet of "TetraBetta Floating Mini Pellets."
He seemed to like them well enough so when the packet started getting low I figured I would keep him on the same brand but then I was reading around about it and apparently this food is more on the cheap (quality wise) side and a lot of people recommended "New Life Spectrum" Betta food.
Yesterday the New Life Spectrum food came in the mail and I gave him one pellet of the old food then one pellet of the new food, to sort of ween him off the old food. Well he eats the TetraBetta pellets just fine, no problem. However when he ate the New Life Spectrum pellets it starting coming out of his gills, sometimes in quite large chunks.
So today I fed him a New Life Spectrum pellet first and again it started coming out of his gills, almost half of it probably came out. I decided to check really closely this time when I fed him the TetraBetta pellet to see if it does come out of his gills and I saw one very tiny particle of food come out of his gills, nowhere close to how much of the New Life Spectrum comes out.
The pellets are roughly the same size, if anything the Tetra pellets are slightly larger. I thought maybe I've just been feeding him too much but it just happens with the New Life pellets. I also tried a suggestion I read about soaking the food in water for a few minutes first but that seemed to make the problem worse.
Should I just stick to the Tetra food since he seems to handle that better, even though it might be lesser quality food? Is there someway to make it easier for him to not expel the food from his gills? I tried cutting a pellet in half but it had pretty much the same result.
I feel like I wasted money on this food now but I'd rather keep my Betta healthy with a nice clean tank instead of having chunks of pellets clouding his tank. I try to get as much as I can with the turkey baster but it's hard to get it all.
He seemed to like them well enough so when the packet started getting low I figured I would keep him on the same brand but then I was reading around about it and apparently this food is more on the cheap (quality wise) side and a lot of people recommended "New Life Spectrum" Betta food.
Yesterday the New Life Spectrum food came in the mail and I gave him one pellet of the old food then one pellet of the new food, to sort of ween him off the old food. Well he eats the TetraBetta pellets just fine, no problem. However when he ate the New Life Spectrum pellets it starting coming out of his gills, sometimes in quite large chunks.
So today I fed him a New Life Spectrum pellet first and again it started coming out of his gills, almost half of it probably came out. I decided to check really closely this time when I fed him the TetraBetta pellet to see if it does come out of his gills and I saw one very tiny particle of food come out of his gills, nowhere close to how much of the New Life Spectrum comes out.
The pellets are roughly the same size, if anything the Tetra pellets are slightly larger. I thought maybe I've just been feeding him too much but it just happens with the New Life pellets. I also tried a suggestion I read about soaking the food in water for a few minutes first but that seemed to make the problem worse.
Should I just stick to the Tetra food since he seems to handle that better, even though it might be lesser quality food? Is there someway to make it easier for him to not expel the food from his gills? I tried cutting a pellet in half but it had pretty much the same result.
I feel like I wasted money on this food now but I'd rather keep my Betta healthy with a nice clean tank instead of having chunks of pellets clouding his tank. I try to get as much as I can with the turkey baster but it's hard to get it all.
