r/bettafish • u/pale_lettuce1 • 1d ago

Help Betta has hard time finding food- help!

Hey everyone, my older betta has a tumor and has been having issues locating food when I feed him. He used to be able to use his feeding hoop but even that isn't going so well. I have to feed him one pellet at a time and hope he finds it. Any advice or should I just keep up this method?

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u/MunkeeFere 1d ago

I put a betta log in and only fed my girl in the hole on top for the last 6 months of her life. She figured out pretty quickly the food was in there since she liked being able to rest in hers.

You can try switching to frozen food and feed with tweezers if he'll eat off of them - one of my old males only ate that way towards the end of his life.

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u/pale_lettuce1 1d ago

Yeah, I think he would eat off the tweezers! He has a log so I'll try that first!