Do Bettas puke?

Question

Some stuff comes out of my Betta's mouth that looks like puke. It gets stuck to the side and makes dots. Is this normal? Here's a pic:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14052711@N03/2723306349/

Answer 1

humm, my goldfish use to do something similar when it was eating. I dont know but i think its normal

Answer 2

I believe bettas can vomit.

When I saw the increasing popularity of betta fish (or beta fish to some) at pet stores, it brought back memories of my childhood days. So much for the trip down memory lane…

Betta fish, or the Siamese fighting fish as they were commonly called then, were great first pets and I got my first betta at the tender age of 8. a little bit about the care of betta fish is called for…The beauty about betta fish is that they don’t need a large tank to survive, they can cope quite well in a small bowl or those hexagonal fish tanks with no requirement for a filtration/aeration system running.

They were relatively inexpensive pets, easy to maintain and beautiful to look at. This is because betta fish can live in water with low oxygen content after all, they did originate from the rice paddies of Thailand and Malaya. The advantage of keeping your bettas in a tank rather than a bowl is that you can now decorate his surroundings and the likelihood of him getting sick from you neglecting to change his water often enough is smaller. What about those funny bubbles on the top of the tank that the betta fish seem to be making continually?

My first betta fish was a startling sapphire blue with hints of red through it. Keep them in a warm area – they are tropical fish! Whilst I did keep my betas in little jam jars, now that I am older and wiser, I find it rather cruel to keep them in anything smaller than a small gold fish bowl. And there are some betta owners who will swear that having a tank system with a full on filtration system running does seem to make for a happier fish. Well, that’s just his way of making a ‘nest’. It had glorious long blue fins and lived in a recycled jam jar (one of the bigger ones).

Answer 3

That looks like algae, it is completly normal. Just a scrubber for your tank (they sell em at pet stores) and whipe it off.

Answer 4

i think so

Answer 5

Hey Aleasha why don't you quit copying and pasting everything. Here's the website you copied off of.

http://www.ask-the-vet.com/betta-fish-ca...

Please stop copying. It's unfair for real answerers.

Oh and I'm pretty sure bettas don't puke. I have one and he hasn't that I've seen.

Answer 6

Bettas dont puke but they do spit out food. If they eat something they don't like they just spit it out. Not really puking, but similar.