gouramis not eating much flakes

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just about a week ago i bought two powder blue dworf gouramis. i have usually only fed my fish basic tropical flake food. well, today at feeding time i noticed that the gouramis would spit out the flakes everytime. is there something else that they would prefer to eat?? i also have angels, loaches, and a few left over mollie fry in there. (and the mollies always get to all the food first) could this be a problem with feeding the gouramis??

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The guy at the petstore gave us an algae based flake (they are green) and they seem to like them, however, the do have a tendency to spit them out and then eat them again, over and over, but the they do eat them. My gourami's absolute favorite food is frozen brine shrimp (I feed it to them defrosted in a bit of tank water)... he'll go nuts for them!!! Even follows the sinking ones all the way to the gravel to eat them!
 
You can try some of the smaller freeze dried foods to stimulate there appetities, such as brine shrimp or daphnia, too..then feed with flake at the same time...i've also noticed gouramis doing the spit out - re-eat game. They should be fine, just offer variety.
 
I try to feed mine a variety of foods but their favorite seems to be shrimp pellets. They also like Hikari micro pellets, sinking wafers and freeze dried daphnia or blood worms. I also occasionally offer them blanched veggies such as cucumber or broccoli and they eat the dead leaves off most of my plants.
 
My female betta isnt eating her feeder fish. their trying to eat her. I got them so she would have company in her tank but all she dose is run and hide. dose anyone know how i could get her to defind herself?????????????????????
 
EJW you should repost this as a new thread with its own topic. This site has so much volume that the people who could help you the most aren't even going to see this question on an old thread.
 
My opaline gourami loves freeze dried bloodworms and occasionally tubifex worms. You may also want to purchase a new can of flakes, and try a different brand. If you aren't already using a good quality flake, try the Omega One or New Life Spectrum. A good thing to look for on better quality foods is a food that doesn't have fish meal as a first ingredient. And don't get the Wardley tubifex worms. For some reason fish don't like them, and they will pollute your tank when they're not eaten. I had to throw my can away. My fish love the hikari and Omega One brands of tubifex worms.
 
EJW said:
My female betta isnt eating her feeder fish. their trying to eat her. I got them so she would have company in her tank but all she dose is run and hide. dose anyone know how i could get her to defind herself?????????????????????
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I have never heard of bettas eating feeder fish. There may be too much activity in that tank with the feeders, and the betta just wants to be in a place that's more quiet, so she hides.
 
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