Betta fish breeders usually have a problem related to the feed for the fish. They don't always have feed for their fish. Betta fish eats Daphnia (it's a planktonic crustacean a.k.a. water flea) and breeders don't always have this kind of feed. Without this water flea, little bettas couldn't stay alive long, because they can't eat silkworm or mosquito larva, yet. Sometimes we can't find water fleas in market. But let me tell you, we can find water fleas in ditches around our house.

When we look at water fleas using a microscope, we can see that its size is flat and ellips, with color that is reddish. An adult water flea is around 2 mm. It can be used for female betta fishes if you want to mate it with male ones.

Now, if we want to find water fleas, it's best to search for it before sunrise, because around that time water fleas usually gather in packs on water surface. So we can just look in the water surface - river or ditch - that is reddish. Water fleas go into the bottom of the water when the day is noon.

Water fleas feed on phytoplankton or other bacteria. Betta fishes love to eat water fleas, and for additional advantage, water fleas have a lot of nutrition and are easy to digested, making betta fish's color more bright.

You can breed water fleas sing dried chicken droppings and yeast. Here's how:

• have a bucket, a drum, or pool ready. Make sure it's clean and dry.
• Fill it with water, around 50-75 cm high. Count the volume.
• Put in the chicken droppings wrapped with cloth. One gram of chicken dropping for one litre of water.
• Put in the eggs of water fleas into the pool with 10-20 grams to 1.000 litres of water ratio.
• On day four, feed them with yeast. 5 grams yeast for 1.000 litres of water.