Why Does My Fish Eat Food Then Spit It Out. Well the Lab will just grab a piece and start to eat then push it all back out then a little while later he will go on the bottom look for food then start eating maybe eating some then pushing it back out. The most common reason your betta is spitting out food is simply that its too big.
Asides from the food being too big this is normally the most common reason why your betta is spitting out food. Spitting- This is almost always from an advanced infestation of flukes. You would not want to eat the same food every day and he might like a variety.
And it would only do that to the food that drifts down close to it.
But the black one wasnt eating and the white one ate a lot. He takes it then spits it out. But you should do the following 2 things. My guppies try to eat something bigger than them and they keep spitting it out and trying again until the get bored and let it fall to the cory cats.
