Fish eat only flake food

[tiggerfish]

I have a 20 gallon fresh water aquarium. 2 danios, three tetras, and two black velvet mollies. I started the tank about a month ago and have been feeding them with nothing but flake food until I tried some different foods. I’ve tried pellets and hard algae tablets. None will eat the algae or pellets. They only eat the flake type. I would like to use a different type of food other than flakes. I think my fish would be better with a variety of foods. Anyone know of other foods they will eat besides flakes, pellets or algae? Thanks for any replies.

 

[GaryE]

I've seen that often. I had a hard time getting mine to eat pellets, until I bought very small ones. The only ones my fish will eat are bug based ones.
But flake and pellets tend to be the same food.

So a variety of flakes will work. Pellets are often the same thing in a different format. The mollies will like green food, and the danios are generalists - they eat everything. There are hundreds of different tetra species in the hobby and they can have different needs, but the most commonly available ones are fine with quality flake.

I don't use a lot of prepared food anymore, but when I did, I tried to have at least 3 types of flake which I rotated - staple food, a veggie type one, a growth, colour or specialty type. I feed once a day, and fast the fish one day a week.

 

[MattW]

I only have one pot of dry food for my fish. It's 5 different foods mixed in one, 3 types of flakes and 2 pellets. Any larger flakes or pellets are crushed since my fish are small. I found even my shrimp go mad for it as they spend a decent amount of time upside down on the floating plants picking at it.

You could try a small amount of flake + new food, mix them together and see if the fish try the new food?