Angelfish acting weird?

[Mrs.h2012]

Be been watching my angelfish ever since I got
It, everytime at feeding time it eats but it either takes a flake and then spits it out very soon after eating or sometimes it will eat a few flakes and spit it out then eat a few small pieces. Everyday activity wise it seems good, it swims around, boh horizontally and vertically, and explores all the time. Is this normal or is there something wrong?

 

[blert]

How long have you had the fish?

 

[Mrs.h2012]

How long have you had the fish?

Since last Friday.. So going on 5 days.

 

[Botanica]

Mine do that...do you give him a variety of different foods? If he is spitting it out without eating any, he may not like it. Try different things. I've always just assumed that's what they do...but I feed 4-6 different kinds of foods.

 

[Laser]

1 of my 2 angelfish goes almost completely horizontal when it thinks I'm going to put food in. If I put my hand in the tank too close to it it will lay flat on the sand to get away from my hand. I feed my angelfish NLS sinking pellets. They never spit those out. Frozen bloodworms they never spit out either.

 

[Mrs.h2012]

1 of my 2 angelfish goes almost completely horizontal when it thinks I'm going to put food in. If I put my hand in the tank too close to it it will lay flat on the sand to get away from my hand. I feed my angelfish NLS sinking pellets. They never spit those out. Frozen bloodworms they never spit out either.

I have done pellet food I can try with it.

 

[mikem691]

If he is realy small you may have to crush it up a bit. When mine were small and grabed a full flake they did the same and ate the smaller ones they spit out. After i crushed it they ate with no problem

 

[Mrs.h2012]

1 of my 2 angelfish goes almost completely horizontal when it thinks I'm going to put food in. If I put my hand in the tank too close to it it will lay flat on the sand to get away from my hand. I feed my angelfish NLS sinking pellets. They never spit those out. Frozen bloodworms they never spit out either.

Thanks for the suggestion about the pellets, I had some granules my other fish didn't like but my angel loves. Didn't spit a single one out!

 

[Mrs.h2012]

Also I went and bought some shrimp pellet food
That said was for bottom feeders as well as larger tropical fish. I smashed the pellets up so they were in smaller pieces and my angel loved them.

 

[Laser]

Glad to hear it!