At the time you may be feeding your fish flake food or pellets. These are fine, but without any variation, your betta will almost inevitably suffer malnutrition. Pellets also are known to cause constipation in older or sickly bettas. Here I'll tell you what I feed mine, but I'm a bit obsessed with my bettas, and give them a wide variety, the size of which is very healthy, but not needed to keep the betta alive.
I've trained my fish to eat the kind of pellet food that floats as a main diet. (I use the floating kind because it's easier for them; they're adapted for it. *Notice the mouth is at the top of the head, not halfway down.* The pellets are a brand called Hikari Bettagold. I also feed them freeze dried bloodworms. (They smell like rice krispies. Yum yum!)
Bettas are carnivores, so I also feed them live food. We have a lagoon in the backyard with titchy little minnows,(see photo above.) I catch them, then put them live into my fish's tank. Napoleon gobbles them up whole, but I cut up the fish for the others. (I behead them first, it's a humane form of euthanization.) I don't feel that sorry for them, they're really small and dumb, not at all like bettas. All I do is put a Ziploc baggie in the water, and the fish swarm in. You wouldn't see a betta doing that, or most other fish in the wild for that matter. Plus they look kind of clueless just swimming in place and *gaping like a guppy*. Sorry if you think I'm heartless. ;)
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