Llama

The Main Problem: The fish don't seem to notice much that I'm feeding them.

I feed them twice a day, and use Flakes (well they're smaller and more circular than flakes - its a Tetra product) and a sinking vegertarian fish-food 'tablet'.

Now in my earlir aquariums, as soon as I put the flakes in, there would have been a large battle for the food, and the tablet (I used to use those as well) used to barely have a chance to sink before it would be nibbled by everyone.

Now with this tank, I throw in the flakes and the fish... ignore them. They float around on the surface while the fish get along with their own usual deeds, then every now and then a fish notices them and nibbles at a flake until its done.

The tablets on the other hand go usually unnoticed, today I aimed it near a cory and the little thing has spent the last 2 minutes nibbling away at it.

Its not that they're not eating, they DO eat when the food is right in front of their mouths, but they don't seem very interested in it.

The tank has some plants in it, so maybe they're snacking on the algae/leaves and not hungry? The fish are pretty new as well, so maybe they're not used to the food or something?

Or could there be somethign wrong with them? They look and act fine otherwise.

Amanda

How long have they been in the tank?
So you feed them around the same time everyday?

Llama

They've been in there for 3 days at most. I don't feed them at the same time each day sadly, I feed them once on 'lights on' and once towards the middle of the day.

Shawnie

give them a bit more time to adjust...figure they have gone from whatever conditions they were in to a nice size tank and planted at that...its going to take some time to get use to it..if your water parimeters have stayed good, im going to say its the adjusting mode...cories will deffinately snack on debris and leftovers that have hung around the plants...the platies will become huge pigs in no time at all..give them a couple more days

Amanda

They may still be learning that "lights on" means food, and that you = food.
Sometimes if the fish won't eat off the surface, you'll often see them picking the foos off the bottom.

Llama

Phew, that's a relief.

This is the first time I have a tank this large, and I really want this to work out, so I'm watching all the fish like a hawk.

Thanks for putting my mind at rest.

UPDATE:

Yep was just not used to it. Today I barely dropped the food in before 2 of them attacked it... so I guess everything is fine now.