@aestheticplantmother High-quality pellets are a good, affordable, staple diet :p I feed my fish New Life Spectrum Thera +A pellets and they also all seem to like those new Fluval Bug Bites :p But varried diet is always a good thing! So you can also offer frozen or live foods like blood worms and brine shrimp ^-^ If you’re feeling really crafty, you can try your hand at making home made gel food as well :psome tips:-Know what’s in your pet’s food before you buy. If the first few ingredients are “meal”s (fish meal, wheat meal, etc.) or the first few ingredients are plant-based, then this is not the food for your betta.-What you want to look for is whole ingredients, or specifically-named ingredients (whole fish, halibut, salmon, krill, etc.). New Life Spectrum and Omega One are good brands to check out. Hikari is ok, but their ingredients are not as quality as they used to be, and if you read the ingredients on their current “Betta Bio-Gold” you’ll see what I mean. -Foods with fillers/freeze-dried foods don’t have a lot of nutritional value, and while a freeze-dried food may make a tasty treat, it shouldn’t be your fish’s staple diet.-You can also feed frozen/live blood worms, mysis shrimp, etc. and you can find this stuff in the freezer of the aquatics section in petsmart, petco, or at your local fish or pet store! -Bettas are insectivores, and aren’t built to properly digest plant matter, so they should not be given any type of algae wafer or vegetables (this includes peas; an alternative to feeding peas for bloat is to feed frozen daphnia).Hopefully this helped! :) Goodluck and happy fishkeeping ^-^If anyone else has anything to add, or correct, please leave a comment, a link, or let me know! :D
