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Kirk..Are you talking about your new fish? IMO it is sometimes what they have been used to eating versus a new kind of food. My fish will eat anything, but prefer floating pellets because that is what I give them. They don't like to have to find them on the bottom. They will eat sinking pellets, if I drop them slowly. My daughters fish only will eat sinking pellets, because that is what they are used to. They seem to like scrounging around on the bottom for their food. Your new fish also need to adjust to a new invironment. You can give them cooked green peas minus the skin of the peas. Hope they start eating soon for you. Glenda

Bottom night scavenger. If it is full of energy then it is eating. Do not overfeed out of worry and end up with polluted tank. Normally they eat the leftover crumbs of other fishes.

put a piece of slate in the tank. Eventually they will lay eggs on that. Have a second aquarium already set up. Use water from the big tank if you have to. A ten gallon is fine. When they lay eggs, watch it closely. There will probably be a period of a few hours when they are actually taking care of the eggs. Remove the slate and place it in the other tank. position an air stone so that the bubbles come up near the eggs to keep the water moving. Carefully pick off the dead eggs each day. There will be many. If the fungus from the dead eggs spreads too far, it'll wipe out the whole slate. You will be rewarded eventually. If this seems to be working and the probability arises that you will have baby angels, you will already need to have started some brine shrimp eggs in yet another aquarium ... a salty one. I use a big 'ol glass or plastic pickle jar with an airstone and salt water. Then you need to strain the hatched shrimp into a cheesecloth net. Rinse them real good. Put them in a glass with regular water and eyedropper them into the babies. With any luck you'll end up with 20-40 baby angels you'll need a home for. I've bred angels many times, before my town changed the additives to the water. Now i have to use rainwater for my aquaria. dkB _`