Stupid question - but needs an answer!

[karma_llama]

This may sound really dumb to you veteran betta keepers out there but is betta pronounced as bee-ta or bet-ta?

Also, not so stupid, if i can't get betta food what will they eat happily (in the dried variety)?

 

[kool_sk8a]

i didnt know whether to answer this cuz i always thought it was bet-ta but now u made me wonder. i think i'm right. anyway i found that they love freeze dried bloodworm

 

[Lotus]

Everything I read says it's pronounced BET-TUH, not BAY-TUH.

Mine really loves the Hikari Bio Gold. It's a little more expensive than the other brands, but they don't eat that much anyway As a treat he gets some frozen bloodworms.

 

[karma_llama]

so we think bet-ta. I'll have to practice calling them that as i used to use the other one!

 

[mcshell]

my lfs calls them bay-tuh.
must be the canadian-english vs uk/us english thingy!

 

[FroggyFox]

I've always said Baytuh...like Alpha, beta...

but I suppose it really doesn't matter

 

[ecotank]

I think that as long as you give them food that they like, you can call them anything you want

Officially it looks like Bet-ta on dictionary.com, but I usually say Bay-ta as well.

 

[Hockeygrrl]

I call them Bay-ta! That is what most people around me call them.

 

[Iggy]

Bet-ta, thats the way it is spelt, so why do people insist on saying it like it has a 'y' or 'ai' in it somewhere.

I know some LFS people say Bay-ta, but it still does not make it right.

I have 253 bet'ta's, I would certainly hope I know how to say it properly.

 

[colesea]

Say it as however your regional dialect allows. Long Islanders pronounce it bay-tah. Sure, that's not correct by a dictionary standard, but everyone knows what you're talking about when you say, "I got myself one of those bay-tah fish the other day." But then again, we all say so-der, for "soda", and bay-gul, for "bagel". *shrug*

~~Colesea

 

[karma_llama]

if we're going with regoinal dialect then really i should be calling them Bee'as, as Brummies from Birmingham UK don't pronounce many 't's!!!

 

[catfishmike]

i think as long as you either know how to spell betta correctly or as long as you know the scientific name it doesn't matter how it's pronounced.common names are often the subject of controversy and have no bearing on izcn nomenclature

 

[fishydude22]

Originally posted by mcshell
my lfs calls them bay-tuh.
must be the canadian-english vs uk/us english thingy!

Epic battle *drumroll*.....

Oh, just call 'em a Siamese Fighting Fish and no more confusion.......

 

[kool_sk8a]

good idea fishydude22, i mean i doesnt really matter what we call them or how we pronounce it. its a beautiful fish, and thats all that matters, as long as people know what fish u are actually talking about. just say it as what comes natural.

 

[Velvet AciD]

For me it's bay-duh. Nice simple, duh. lol

 

[I-Love-Fishies]

Most people say BAY TA but BET TA is the proper way to say it. IN my experience betta food is crapp. I feed my bettas a staple of hikari cichlid complete. The juvies grow noticeably day to day, up to 1/4" fin growth over night because of the high quality of the cichlid complete. Hikaris betta biogold is ok but it has MSG and i dont like that. You cant beat variety- flake, worms, frozen, fresh, algae tabs.

 

[Igor The Cat]

Why cant you just call it Betta splendens??

-Java

 

[mcshell]

Igor, how do you pronounce Betta in "Betta splendens"?
LOL
back to the same question.
Anyway, I think people would understand either bay tah, or bee tah, or bet tah

 

[Igor The Cat]

Exactly my point mcshell

-Java

 

[theeyrietrainer]

id say bay-ta splen-dens. lol! well i say bay-ta


as for the food, i sometimes give mine tropical fish flakes. he happily intakes them, but i dont use it often cause i dont trust them that much on my bay-tas