Removing uneaten food

I added 10 Dwarf Rainbowfish earlier today. They seem to have settled in OK and were swimming all over the tank.

I put three or four flakes of food in and one got a nibble but the rest just ended up on the substrate. In trying to get it out all I ended up doing was making it disintegrate...

Is a siphon / gravel cleaner the only way to get it out? (I guess this would remove quite a bit of water just to get rid of one flake)

So today's stupid newbie question is what is the easiest way to get rid of uneaten food?

 

Go with the gravel siphon.

Best of luck with your picky eaters!

 

A turkey baster would get it out, it's one of my most useful aquarium tools for small cleaning jobs

 

Seconding the turkey baster.

 

Aha turkey baster! Great idea. I just saw that this week being used in a reef tank.

 

Might need to buy another cupboard for all this fish stuff

 

How big is your tank? In order to put that many in a tank your tank has to be pretty big.

 

Tank is 180l (think that is 47.5 of your US gallons)