nutrafin betta food

Ingredients : Red grubs (blood worms), krill meal, fish meal, wheat flour, ground corn, squid meal, oat flour, wheat gluten meal, RAP*, PDP**, soy protein concentrate, soy flour, fish liver meal, yeast culture, fish oil (preserved with ethoxyquin), squid liver meal, shrimp meal, dl-methionine, wheat germ meal, canthaxanthin, astaxanthin, lecithin, citric acid, vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, vitamin B12 supplement, folic acid, calcium pantothenate, l-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C activity), inositol, biotin, niacin, ethoxyquin (preservative).
*RAP: Red algae pigment, a natural source of astaxanthin derived from a unique strain of microalgae.
**PDP: Pre-digested plankton, a patented bio-processed natural pigment.

is this any good for bettas or is it not as high quality as it suggests?

there is only one other type of betta food available on this site is this one better or worse?

I am only thinking to get it as i am ordering some DelicaSea goldfish food from here, and i may as well make the P&P worth it. I am getting a betta in about a month, so i know i have more time to shop around, i just think it's not worth paying two lots of P&P.

thanks x

Hi Katmad, the ingrediants look pretty standard, lots of meaty stuff! It's probably got a pretty good protein %

I've never used that one, but what I would say is that some Bettas prefer pellet rather than flakes and vice versa.

You could get it and try it with your new Betta, they can be quite finicky with feeding and it sometimes takes a while to get them to accept the food they are offered, especially if it's different from what they were fed before you got them, but they usually do accept it in the end.

Nutrafin is a good quality brand, so you could try it.

When I had Basil I fed him Hikari Betta Bio-Gold - which he absolutely loved!

There are lots of good brands, but Hikari is rated amongst some breeders.

You can it little packets on ebay UK at the moment

Oh, forgot to say - the Betta food by Tetra is quite good as well, flakes but with little freeze dried nibbles in it too (krill etc.)

ok i will look into tetra stuff as we get that more in the UK than we do Hikari. it's 'coming soon' to seapets.co.uk, but god knows when that'll be!!

I will keep an eye out for pellets, but i cant find any betta specific food in lfs round here.

i will aks the shop what they use when i buy him/her and see if i can get somethin similar (perhaps better quality if poss)

sorry u dont have basil anymore

thanks for your help x

A lot of betta foods start off with corn meal as the main ingredient and that's a bit silly when we all know bettas don't hop out of ponds in Thailand and go looking for cornfields. They eat mozzie larvae, bugs and water worms in the wild so anything that starts off with somethng meaty as its main ingredient is going to be a lot better.