GBR and food

From my experience GBR's are very sensitive to water quality and proper acclimation when compared to other rams. If they are always hiding and not eating keep a close eye on them and see if they improve. Try Sinking Cichlid pellets to get to the bottom, I have to place the pellets right in the flow of the filter so that it carries them to the bottom for my Bolivian and Gold rams which quickly devour them.

I had the same problem with my blue rams. They had a hard time competing for food against my boisterous clown loaches and gouramis. I found I was overfeeding all the fish just so my blue rams could get enough to eat. The clown loaches looked pregnant after feeding.

I found the perfect solution -- get a turkey baster. I put a little tank water in a small cup, then add fish food (I use Hikari micro sinking wafers). Then I just suck up a few of the wafers in the baster, and shoot it in front of the Ram's nose. He took to it right away. Now if I can't shoot it out of the baster fast enough for him, sometimes he tries to stick his nose into the nozzle of the turkey baster. When he see's the nozzle of the turkey baster coming at him, he rushes to meet it.

The clown loaches are back to being their previous svelte selves.

That sounds like a good fix! When I had 3 pairs in my discus tank, the rams were always out and about making sure none of the other rams came near their spawning site. So you'd see them eat. When their mates died, they weren't so brave to be out with the discus. The discus don't go after them or hurt them, they are just intimidated by their size. So they stayed in the plants in the back of the tank. They love frozen bloodworms which is a big part of my discus' diet, and I feed 3 cubes at once so worms were always scattering back where they were. Some of the smaller fish, even my neons, just would rather stay in the sidelines of the tank instead of swimming by the discus. The size of the discus intimidates them and I guess the natural instinct tells them that big fish eat little fish, so they do what comes natural and stay out of the way. I'm sure they are thinking the same thing about your angelfish!

Cool! Maybe they feel more comfortable now with their tankmates and new surroundings!

Rams feed mostly foraging the bottom..discus are also foragers but they will swim up to get food. bold male rams may do this occassionally.

I find that feeding in two spots wors best. I use slow sinking colorbits..I feed flake the discus and angels greet those then slide in pellets after the discus and angels are distracted.

food sinks and rams eat..