JBL NovoBetta - 100ml is a food for bettas. JBL gives the target fish size as 3 to 10cm. It comes in a 100ml pack.

Key Features

• Floats: bettas feed at the surface and will often ignore anything that sinks past them.
• Small pieces: a betta has a small mouth and a gut to match, so pieces have to be small and portions smaller still.
• Sized for 3 to 10cm fish: JBL works this range out by fish length, because mouth size is what decides whether a fish can actually eat a piece.
• 100ml pack: pick a size you will get through in a few months rather than the biggest on the shelf.

How To Feed It

• Feed small amounts two or three times a day rather than one big meal. Fish have very short guts and do better on little and often.
• Give only what is cleared in two or three minutes. Anything still drifting after that will rot in the substrate and push your nitrate up.
• Net out the leftovers. Uneaten food is the usual reason a tank goes cloudy a day or two after feeding.
• A fasting day once a week does healthy adult fish no harm and gives the filter a chance to catch up.

Good To Know

• Overfeeding is behind most cloudy water and high nitrate. The food is rarely the problem; the amount almost always is.
• Keep the tub shut and somewhere cool and dry. Damp gets into fish food easily, and once it does the vitamins go and mould can follow.
• Buy a size you will finish inside a few months. A big tub left open for a year is a false economy.
• Bettas are easy to overfeed and prone to bloating. Three or four pieces twice a day is plenty for an adult.
• Match the piece size to the mouth. Anything a fish cannot swallow gets picked at, dropped and left in the gravel.