A better food for my fish?

[jay2jay99]

I have 3 platies, and 4 harlequin rasboras, when I feed them flake food they don't seem that interested until the food starts to sink, they're alot more active when I throw in sinking catfish pellets for my lobster but they have trouble eating it. Is there something I can give them that sinks and is a bit more tasty than flake food?

Jay.

 

[hellohefalump]

you could try soaking your flakes in water first before giving it to them... I feed my goldfish soaked flakes because Dennis is a greedy b*r and eats so fast he gets wind. So now I hold the flakes under the water for a bit before releasing them. Seems to work well...

 

[jay2jay99]

Ah cool, that's a good idea, cheers. I have a fry too, he's very quiet, I have some very very fine ground up flakes for him, never seems interested. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jay.

 

[hellohefalump]

I'm not an expert, but my molly fry never seem to want to take flakes no matter how small when they're still tiny... so I give them tiny amounts of algae wafer and they seem to like it.

 

[jay2jay99]

i'll see if I can get hold of some.

Thanks.

 

[WILDER]

Livebearers love algae tablets.

 

[jay2jay99]

Algae tablets? would they be ok fry? or can they be ground up? I'll try them on me adults anyway.

 

[WILDER]

I just split the tablet in half, just add half of the tablet and split that in half, it mushes up after a while livebearers love it.