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Thank you all for your responses. The barbs are actually starting to come up to the surface as well as taking the falling food. My newly discovered "technique" is to take a pinch of food and roll out a few 3-5 pellets between my fingers to distribute. I watch them come up and eat them all...

Thank you Waterstrider, I was concerned at first but now I am more at ease that they are getting enough food.

Thank you Deanasue! I appreciate your reply!

Hi my name is Jenn, and I am new to fish keeping. I have cherry barbs; 2 males and 4 females (plus 2 mystery snails and 10 ghost shrimp) in a 20 gallon, planted aquarium. I am giving them tropical flakes, and micro pellets. They appear to like the micro pellets better. I thought that when...