A few weeks ago I was going through my fish drwaer and WOW! I never knew I had so many types of food! Some of which I wouldn't touch with a ten foot poll like the Wardley betta pellets a friend gave me when her fish died. Or some Sundried shrimp that I have had since my first betta :OMG: So i narrowed it down to the foods that I DO feed.

Hikari Betta Bio Gold
Hikari FD Daphnia
Hikari FD Bloodworms
and
Tetra Bettamin

I have been reading more and more about fd foods causing problems in fish and even carrying parasites. SO I have decided to switch to pellets and frozen foods only. Yesterday I went out shopping. This is what I am going to feed:

Hikari Betta Bio Gold
Crude protein 38% Crude Fat 4.0 % Moisture Max 1.0 % Crude Ash max 12% Phosphorus min 0.7%

I know that this low in protien but my fish love it, it has lots of vitamins, and it doesn't have any artificial color enhancers in it.

Hikari Frozen Brine Shrimp
Hikari Frozen Daphnia
and
Hikari Frozen Bloodworms

So they will get pellets and bloodworms twice a week, brine shrimp and daphnia once a week, and then fast the last day of the week. Does this sound like a good diet for them? nutritionally sound? I want to feed them a good varied diet that they enjoy, but at the same time I don't want to get bogged down with a zillion different types of food. I fed them the frozen bloodworms yesterday..they went crazy...they loved them. And then of course they begged for more...not today little piggies! Today they are getting BS which I used to feed before..until it went bad when I didn't use it fast enough. Oopsy. As for the other foods....I know some people I can give them to.

So anyways....Does this sound like a balanced and nutriteous diet for them? Thanks for your input!

Well a varied diet is always going to be more nutricious than just the samething day after day. Thatlooks like a pretty good line up for your guys, and similarto mine, but I have the freeze dried only, and live.
One word though.
Many people will have different opinions about different things, especially food.
Myself, I have had fish get sick right behind feeding them frozen foods too many times for me to feel comfortable with giving my fish frozen.
The last time 10 fish got sick, and I lost 8 of them to weird bacterial stuff.
I prefer the freeze dried myself, and use Hikari brand only.
Hikari frozen foos are said to be safer then other brands as well, but if the food thawed and refroze, in transit or at the store, there is that possibility of a bactierium being introduced.
That is what I think happened last time, so right now, there are snails getting fat off of frozen fish foods, because I am not going to risk loosing 8 of my HMs like I lost 6 of my VTs... and two of my first HM trio.

Hmmm...Thanks for your insight Belle. I will continue feeding the frozen foods but I will moniter them all closely and stop if there is any indication it is harming them. I will keep some FD still on hand in case I need it.I have had negative experiances with FD in my first year of keeping fish where two of my five got internal parasites and died. I wasn't feeding frozen or dried so i knew FD must have been the culprit. Hikari is really the only brand I like to use as well although I have fed Tetra, I really like the hikari best, and so that is the brand that I am going to stick with. The bettas really love the frozen foods they are going crazy over them even to the point of trying to get me to feed them when I am doing water changes. The swim up and do their wiggle-dance then imediatly start looking around their tanks for food. Little piggies, lol.

Like I said, everyone has their own way of doing things.
I stress this again and again on another board, what may work well for you, might not for me, and vice versa.
I am trying to get my live foods jumped up because if I can freeze my own, well they might not be vitamin enriched like Hikaris, but it is something that I have as a back up, you know?

I've actually been considering to start feeding, my girl some blood worms, I've heard from other Betta owners they really like em. But I don't know to awfully much about them or even how much they cost in stores. Hopefully my girl will like em and then I can use em with my new crowntail I'm planning planning on getting soon.

What we feed are adults here is frozen at night (either brine shrimp, bloodworms, or mysis shrimp) and throw a few pellets at them in the morning. We only have one live culture, and that's BBS for the fry. The fish here seem pretty healthy, and I personally haven't had any problem with frozen foods at all. We feed Ocean Nutrician Betta Pro Pellets, and the only frozen we feed are Hitari and Ocean Nutrician.

I thought you feed vinegar eels technically BBS is not a culture because they are one time use only. The vinegar eels actually are a culture because you have to maintain them and their environment.The other brands are not rinsed clean enough, and can pass on parasites and bacterial infections to your fish .Also, I believe it is Atison's Betta Pro. I am not sure that anyone knows it as Ocean Nutrition, lol. I like their freeze dried Blood Worms as well.

We have VE's too, but BBS is usually the only "live" food we feed, sorry for the typo! Was late when I threw that up! Ment to put in VE's in there to :P *Dork*

But if you have young fry, another thing to try is Cyclops by Ocean Nutrition. When I did my frozen food order, they had daphnia on back order, and I tried the cyclops because I had a tank with eggs and I needed something to feed them when they got bigger. They work awsome! My fry love them, they are nice and small and easy for them to eat, roughly the size of daphnia which is great for young fish.

just trying to clarify as sometimes you can be confusing!

Sorry hun! It was late, and brain no function after certain time.

Thats ok thats why I don't post when I'm tired unless I can pass a field sobriety test.
Being tired impairs you just as much as being inebriated!