My new betta has weird eating habits...is this normal?

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Hi everyone. I bought a new betta about a week ago. My old betta died after having him for over a year. My new guy (his name is Phil) is really weird about eating. I feed him 3-4 pellets a day. He'll take them in his mouth one at a time. After a few minutes (sometimes close to 10 minutes) he'll spit them out kind of broken up, and they'll sink to the bottom. After he has done this to all the pellets, he leaves them alone for a long time, sometimes up to an hour or two. Then he'll go to the bottom and eat all the little pieces that he previously spit out. This seems really weird to me, because my old betta never did anything like this. Is this ok, or is there something wrong?
 
It could be that the pellets are too large for him. I always pour a small pile of pellets into my palm and choose the smallest ones for my youngest bettas.
 
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