I feed it a mix of frozen mysis shrimp, frozen krill, frozen bloodworms and occasionally a live mealworm or other feeder insect
I had the exact same experience.Lol, i don't think they're similar to tinfoils one bit, you'd have thought an LFS would pick up on that.
Barbs are notorious plant eaters. I recently had to transfer half a dozen filaments from my 180 because as soon as they got to about 4" they decided to start ravaging my plants. I'm wondering if my small beardless barbs are going to follow a similar path once they get a bit bigger. At the moment they're not interested in my plants at all. I notice you have some greenery, what's your experience so far?