Having trouble feeding my fish with red eye tetras around

[martintanks91]

Every time i throw in the flakes my 6 red eye Tetra eat everything before the other fish can even swim to the top. I put some on 2 diferent parts of the tank si everyody can get but they smell it all across the tank. What can i do? Its a 80 gal tropical and i feed twice a day héres a pic. Please help

 

[elephantnose]

If you hold a bit of flakes underwater they will sink. Do this and add some normally.

 

[emilygupps]

I drop sinking cichlid pallets or an algea wafer for my goramis to pick at incase the rasboras eat all the flakes (it does happen often), it's fun to watch the gorami fight off a 1/4 inch baby shrimp for fallen flakes or the wafers. You'd think he would just eat the shrimp but the shrimp pokes him in the belly and the gorami runs to hide in his drift wood.

 

[schoeplein]

Get something that's too big for them to put in their mouth. I have Cichlid pellets that a group of five tetras will cluster around and pull apart, letting the other fish pluck at the other food. I have a problem with greedy pearl danios that will try to squeeze three of the pellets in their mouth. They gag on them, eventually popping one or two out for my other fish to snag and pull apart.

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