Reviews

Here, I will post about different products I've tried and used and tell you what I think of them! =] Just remember that this is only 1 person's thoughts and opinions and I would recommend that you go out and do more research as well =]
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Name: Hikari Betta Bio Gold Pellets
Average Price:3.99 CDN - reasonable
Feeding: 1-3 pellets 2-3 times a day depending on the size of the betta.
Ingredients: Shrimp Meal, White Fish Meal, Milt Meal, Brewers' Dried Yesast, Wheat Flour, Corn Gluten Meal, Soybean Meal, Wheat-Germ Meal, Cuttlefish Oil, Carotene, Protease, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin A, L-ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (stabilized vVitamin C), Vitamin B12, Biotin, Clacium Pantothenate, Choline, Chloride, Vitamin D3, Folic Acid, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite (source of Vitamin K), inositol, Para-Aminobenzoic Acid, Zinc Sulfate, Manganese sulfate, salt, ferrous sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Cobalt Sulfate, Aluminum Hydroxide, Magnesium Sulfate
Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein-Min. 38%
Crude Fat-Min. 4%
Crude Fibre-Max. 1%
Moisture-Max. 10%
Crude Ash-Max. 12%
Sinkage: It can stay afloat for many hours.
Handy: Yes, you can just pour 2-3 pellets out into your hand
Betta Likes it?: Yes, more than any other dried betta food they've tried
Final Opinion: Great!
My Grading: 10/10

So, you may ask, which one? Health-wise, probably either the Bio-Gold or Bettamin.

The freeze-dried bloodworms took a while for the bettas to get used to it because it was pretty hard. I would drop 2-3 into the betta's tanks and come back hours later to see the same soggy pieces of freeze-dried bloodworms in the tank. After prodding it around a bit, the bettas were willing to try. They chewed it, spit it out, and kept trying again. Finally, they were willing to eat it, but they would rather not have because when I put other food in, they would chase the other food instead of the freeze-dried bloodworms. To add to that, the freeze-dried bloodworms caused one of my bettas, Noel, to become constipated. He wasn't pooping. I tried to cut off feeding. It didn't work. He did pass away, but I cannot determine whether it was from the constipation or something else.

The Bettamin also took a while to get used to. The main con for me was that it was a bit messy. When you opened the top, there would be flakes coming out everywhere. The bettas were a bit hesitant about eating flakes. They were willing to eat it but with less enthusiasm. It also seemed like they were gulping a lot of air while eating these flakes because the flakes are harder for the bettas to grasp in their mouths. They were more welcomed by the bettas than the freeze-dried bloodworms were though.

The Hikari BettaBio-Gold was the clear winner here for me and for the bettas. After eating for over a week of Bettamin, when I dropped in the Bio-Gold, the bettas gained their enthusiasm for eating again. It's also easy to dispense and easy for the bettas to eat. It's not messy because it floats for a long time. I would not feed more than 9 of these per day because they expand a lot in water. It can't be good for the betta to eat too many of these in one day. It may cause constipation. The bettas loved these pellets more than the Bettamin or Freeze-dried bloodworms.


The clear winner was the Hikari Betta Bio-gold