How to feed community fish tank containing a betta?

hello, I have a community tank with 4 different fish species and feeding them has become a problem. The fish I have are Tetras, platy, female betta and hill stream loaches or Borneo suckers. The loaches kinda just slide themselves in between the filter and the glass and eat algae (I presume) on the glass there, or hide behind a object. I attempted to feed cucumber but they never found it, so I took it out. I think if I bought any special food for them the other fish would eat it, I don’t really know what to do about them.
Apart from that problem, there is a lot of fish feeding agression with the others, the next paragraph is that in detail but you don’t have to read it, I just need any community feeding advice (as well about the loaches). Thanks

So, I used to feed the platy and tetra some tropical flakes, they float and everything was fine, since the tetra would be slowed down by having to come up take a flake down and eat it (which was a slow process as they had to keep spitting it out until it was small enough) whilst the platy could just graze on the surface and eat majority of the food. Now I have the betta, so I cannot feed the flakes to her as they dont give her enough nutrients. I bought bug bites and i now try to use them for everyone instead, (it’s better for the betta and tetra I believe), however, the tetra have started to go crazy and eat almost all the food, because its smaller and sinks faster (they don’t need to do the whole spit out and eat again), this means that the platy don’t get as much as they would like. As well as this the tetra then become bloated, which isn’t great. Now the agression problem.. I feed the betta, at the same time as the other fish with the same food, but in a different end of the tank to try avoid any aggression. Howeve, she eats very slow, so the tetra and platy go to eat her food once they’ve gulped down theirs. The platy attempt to chase her away as they didn’t get much, which as you can imagine she doesn’t appreciate that and fights back with a puffed out face. (this works and the platy going away for like 5 seconds, but return)
So, is there any way that I can improve this so the tetra don’t eat like 2X what they should and the platy eat enough to not be mad at the betta. Maybe I should feed platy and tetra flakes, and the betta bug bites, would feeding different types of food make it worse if they prefer the bug bites I’m feeding to the betta though?
About the betta being in a community tank, I don’t have anywhere else to move her to, so I would like to fix this problem and keep her in the tank if possible, the alternative is to return her. I got her very recently so maybe there also having some hierarchy problems and ig might establish soon? Thanks for any opinions about this.

 

It's always a compromise keeping different species together in a small space.

These can also be from different countries and environments like yours.

I keep mainly single species which lessens these compromises significantly.

The species I choose are fish that live together in a group.

I currently have Clown Loaches and Harlequin Rasboras in one 110g tank. Although there are two species they keep apart and do not compromise one another.

Cardinal Tetras (and plants) in another 45g tank.

African Dwarf Frogs (and plants) in another 14g tank.

I don't know why more people don't do this.

 

It's always a compromise keeping different species together in a small space.

These can also be from different countries and environments like yours.

I keep mainly single species which lessens these compromises significantly.

The species I choose are fish that live together in a group.

I currently have Clown Loaches and Harlequin Rasboras in one tank. Although there are two species they keep apart and do not compromise one another.

Cardinal Tetras (and plants) in another tank.

African Dwarf Frogs (and plants) in another.

I don't know why more people don't do this.

I don’t have the space nor money for multiple tanks, and I wanted to keep different types of fish. I was told it would work but I see your point, I’m quite new to it it’s my first tank so in the future I think I will stick to like 1-2 species as it is quite stressful

 

I think it can work but you need to choose the species carefully and if you do not have a great knowledge of keeping the different species it can seem like a big experiment. But if you start with your favourite species and describe your end goal people on here will help you.

 

I think it can work but you need to choose the species carefully and if you do not have a great knowledge of keeping the different species it can seem like a big experiment. But if you start with your favourite species and describe your end goal people on here will help you.

Yeah, thanks for your help.

 

I spread the food to different areas and let them eat, everyone gets food and no one starves. It’s worked for 40 years with my fish. You can’t overthink of it like restaurant tables.

 

I spread the food to different areas and let them eat, everyone gets food and no one starves. It’s worked for 40 years with my fish. You can’t overthink of it like restaurant tables.

Haha, yea i care too much about my fish, I’ll try that