What kind of pellets did you try?  My SI Shannon hasn't had any toe-tapping incidents, we've had good luck with the Zupreem natural and the Avian Entree Garden Goodness (no colored pellets).  Recently I've gotten a bag of the Scenic Jungle Mix, just giving him the non-colored ones.  Of course it helps that I have other birds to eat the ones Shannon can't eat, that wouldn't be a good option for you.  If you haven't already checked it out, the Land of Vos is an excellent place to find answers to all of your ekkie questions.  Search around the site and I'm sure there are more alternatives.  My nighttime foods for the birdlings are at this time a mix of New Song Organic seed/grain mix, Goldenfeast Hookbill Legume, and Zupreem pellets.  They seem to like it, I will probably continue to use it in the future. 

I use Zupreem colored for Diana. She has never toe tapped in 9 years on them. However, she is naked as a jay bird. Her's is not diet related, we don't think. She was critically ill when she began to pluck. I have tried so many brands I could open a store with the discards and nothing helps.

Check for spirulina on labels. Some say that will cause tapping.

As much as folks tout Harrison's, I think it has spirulina. Check before trying it.

I think Carolyn at Land of Vos has a page on toe tapping.

Annie

I don't have ekkie's, but my birds don't eat at night, neither do wild birds, come to think about it. 

 

Both my greys eat a little seed right around 6:30 and then ask to into their sleepy cages at 7:00PM.  We put them night-night with fresh water in their sleepy cages and cover them up and get them up in the morning between 6:45 and 7:00 AM to a breakkie of fresh warm food and fresh water on their t-stands.

 

Whenever we have put food in their sleepy cages, they never touch it at night so we just stopped putting food in there for them.  di