Dis-liked fish food

[Zylumn]

What have you done with the fish food you have purchased that your fish don't like. I recently bought some fish food on-line that has all the right percentages of the food I would like to feed, but my fish hate it. Even my plate coral has spit it out.
Any suggestions other than starving them would be appreciated. I feed Flake and Mysis shrimp no problem but they dislike pellets.

Kevin

[marie]

I have a shelf full of dry fish food my fish won't eat and I've given up buying any kind of pellets.
Catering to finicky fish and trying to keep a balanced diet is half the fun of reefkeeping .

In my lps tank I have a potters angel who will only eat flake food, a clown goby and a hawkfish who will only eat mysis and a mandarin who only eats blood worms is it any wonder I have algae problems

[Delphinus]

I've found that food that isn't liked, generally gets even less liked over time. I guess it gets stale maybe. Hate to say it but unless they have a change of heart you're probably going to have to chuck it at some point. I've had to throw out a few foods that I had high hopes for. I thought for sure Cyclops-eeze flakes would be a slam dunk but nope. Even bought another one thinking "this time they're sure to like it!" Nope. Both ended up filed under "G".

[michika]

I've had it happen before too with spirulina flakes. I ended up crushing them up and feeding them as a mix. They eat it readily when its crushed in with other foods, but never on its own. What the fish don't know, won't hurt them

[Puff]

my red eye tetras eat any food i put in their tank, so they get all the "bad" food

[Aquattro]

I mix it in the chili and feed it to the kids. Paid good money, not throwing it out.