Camphilophus;2434871; said:fatten them up with flake, then work on something else. I personally would throw pellets in before flake, then if they didn't eat that I'd switch to flake after 10 minutes.
I was hoping they'd accidentally take a pellet in a mouthful of flake. Still a little too small for accidental ingestion I guess. The little one did play with a sinking shrimp pellet for 5 minutes though.