Food choices for Bleeding Heart Tetras?

[AquaticLove]

I have 6 bleeding heart tetras in my tank, and they seem to not enjoy eating simple flaked food on a daily basis. Is there a good substitute and other good choices to feed them?

Not sure about veggies and everything as my family has always fed just flake food.

[skullduggery1]

frozen brine shrimp(or live if you can get it)freeze dried daphnia for a treat.these two foods will bring out more red in the BH tetras.

[AquaticLove]

they don't seem to be eating alot. I just treated for ich and had two fish die. Did I do something wrong? I followed the instructions as directed

[rich311k]

What size tank? What are the test readings? Those tetras should eat just about anything, I have never found them to be picky.

[AquaticLove]

29gal and all the parameters are fine, the temperature is the recommended temperature. I had recently got them so I believe they had just been settling in. However they developed ich soon afterwards, and the treatment hit them pretty hard with 4/6 dying.

It seems whenever we buy from the one petstore we always get ich in our tanks, so I will be talking to someone and hopefully they will get this resolved.

[Fishguy2727]

What are the exact parameters? What you may have been told is okay may not be and we just want to double check for you.

I only feed and recommend New Life Spectrum Thera+A. I also did this at the shop I was running and we rarely had ich pop up.

[Artificial]

I recommend Hikari micro pellets. I've been feeding all my fish Hikari for years now, and it keeps them all looking great.