Cloud mountain minnows - only one eats the food

[frazzledmumoftwo]

Hi, title summarises it really.

We have 6 cloud mountain minnows, in our new tank. Water is all ok - we bought the tank back in November and it has been through the whole nitrogen cycle set up. Fish bought last weekend. There are 4 medium sized ones (about 2-2.5cm long) and 2 smaller ones (about 1-1.5cm long).

My question is this: when we feed them (once a day, as advised by fish shop, using TetraPro premium flakes for tropical fish) only one of the larger fish actually even notices the food. He usually has a good feed, but the others eat nothing. I don't think the others (particularly not the smaller two) have eaten a thing all week. I don't think they even realise it is there.

The plants are all plastic, so it's not even as though the baby fish are eating plants instead. Sounding like my DM here, I don't know how they will ever get bigger if they don't eat anything.

Any advice anyone? We are novices here.

[Mogz]

Have you tried offering them any livefood? That might get them interested. Some fish don't eat for a day or so after moving tanks because of the stress and it takes a nice treat to get them motivated.
The other fish could be picking at the flakes that settle in the tank when you're not looking.

[EauRouge]

Yes, try giving them a bag of daphnia (rinse it through in a net first). They move pretty quick and even the most sluggish minnow will turn into a teeny predator

[SayraT]

My wcmm love blood worm, I just feed them the ones that come in wee tubes, they are not the frozen ones.

I also changed from flakes to micro pellets as I thought they were easier for them to get their mouths around, since changing my gold wcmm have really coloured up and are beautiful.

The micro pellets I use are Hikari ones for tropical fish.

[Mogz]

How are they doing Frazzled?