need help with feeding marbled hatchet fish!

[Canadian]

I read somewhere it says Marbled Hatchet fish cannot live on just flake food, they need other foods in their diets like, Black mosquito larvae, fruit flies, blood worms, or brine shrimp (either live or frozen) everyday. I bought Blood worms (for a hole friggen lot of money) and when I put it in the hatchet fish cant get any because all my other fish eat it first. but is this even true? or is it a false website?

also my mom hates when I spend 10 dollars on one tiny container of food that lasts 1 week so she would like to know a website were you can buy cheap food and supplies. and that shipping is unbelievably cheap!

something like big al's I dont like because shipping is only cheap if you spend 50$ or more.. what about if I need to spend only 10 or 20? see what I mean?

[RatMan]

depends were you live I have to travel almost 2 hours to get decent fish food so when I go I buy in bulk and just kep about 3 months supply. As for were to get food cheap not sure, but perhaps there is another person in your area who is having the same issues and you can buy togather and split the food. As for Hatchets needing that varied a diet, I can not remember because it has been a long while since I had them, but a good flake food and they should be fine with frozen blood worms like once a week should be fine.

[Melody]

John's Fish Food (http://www.johnsfishfood.com) is in Ontario so the shipping wouldn't be that much and he sells bulk. This hobby isn't exactly cheap I'm afraid.

[Canadian]

John's Fish Food (http://www.johnsfishfood.com) is in Ontario so the shipping wouldn't be that much and he sells bulk. This hobby isn't exactly cheap I'm afraid.
how many oz in 1lb?

also do those costs include shipping?

EDIT: also they have no pictures. thats dumb.

[Melody]

Fish food looks like fish food...lol.

16oz's in a pound. Shipping is extra.

[GaryofMontreal]

Go the freeze dried route. Bloodworms sink and will never be a great option for timid surface feeders like hatchets. I have a dozen silver hatchets in a 75. They eat flake five times per week, and dried krill once (all my adult fish have a day in the week without food). For the hatchets, I crumble the krill between my fingers. I have a severe allergy to bloodworm (many people react to it) so I can't feed that. More expensive food once or twice a week will go a long way.
Hatchets can live on a variety of different flake. In nature, they are bug eaters, so they need their protein. Plant flakes are not for them.
If you have a lot of tanks, mail order makes sense, but for a school of hatchets, all you need is at any decent pet store.