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?

 

[Boundava]

My Fish Place sells crumble size food they may like.
Sera sells a fine powder like growth food or they have the hugely popular (to fish) O'nips that you press against the inside of your tank and it will dissolve but more often will be attacked by the fish until it is consumed.