New food supply for Corys

I have took advice from you knowledgable people on here & bought a new food supply for the Corys. In addition to the Frozen Bloodworm/Shrimp treats

I would avoid frozen bloodworms for corys.

They have been alright for the 20 yrs ive kept them for. One of current Corys is almost 5 yrs old & he has it twice a week

Fishiemang said:

I would avoid frozen bloodworms for corys.

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Why is that?

Very curious also

Fishiemang said:

I would avoid frozen bloodworms for corys.

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dont dried float

I dont give them dried & on the odd occasion i would of i soak them for a while first.

Also Clearly there is not a reason not to give Corys frozen bloodworm ?

Ohh ive found the answer after a little digging, No offence to the Author, was just curious as to why you would say that about giving the Corys Bloodworm

Everybody is entitled to there own opinion. Personally i wouldnt have anything given to me from PetSmart(PetsatHome here in U.K) but this is another argument/debate

It's not just petsmart. Bloodworms can carry parasites and pass them along to fish. Other reasons are fish sometimes have a hard time digesting/passing the worms. You don't know source or how they were handled, freeze/thaw/freeze what have you. There are a couple brands out there that some have had good luck with.

Once in a while, most cases you'll be fine. If they are fed as a staple, or more than once a week, this is when you can run into problems.

There are several threads even here of people wondering why their cory's and other fish are dying off. Every time, when they list food, this includes bloodworms. I have personally lost several cory's and ADF's from dropsy caused by bloodworms. Luckily, I stopped feeding them daily to my dwarf puffers, as there is a cory in that tank.l, and the cory survived. I saw it was starting to swell up. Super bloated. I stopped the bloodworms, and the cory recovered. Same thing with ADF's. Was feeding them bloodworms as a treat a couple times a week, and they would swell up and.die from dropsy. Stopped the bloodworms, they lived for years.

It's not an opinion. It is a.fact. I figured it out only because I read someone smarter than I explaining why bloodworms kill certain aquatic critters. Turned out to be true in every case of dropsy I have had. Stopped using them and have not had a single case of dropsy in a few years now. Last time I saw it was a tiger barb. Fed them a cube and 2 days later one was bloated, by then end if the day, it was belly up and.dead. Swollen up. I don't feed bloodworms anymore. Frozen or freeze dried. There are much better protein alternatives out there....

O.K, Thanks for the input. I figured you had a problem with them in the past, That's why I dug out the post of yours.
first time I've ever heard of anything wrong with Bloodworm though

Fishiemang said:

It's not just petsmart. Bloodworms can carry parasites and pass them along to fish. Other reasons are fish sometimes have a hard time digesting/passing the worms. You don't know source or how they were handled, freeze/thaw/freeze what have you. There are a couple brands out there that some have had good luck with.

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It's through this reason that none of my fish have these

jonny-5 said:

O.K, Thanks for the input. I figured you had a problem with them in the past, That's why I dug out the post of yours.
first time I've ever heard of anything wrong with Bloodworm though

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jonny i only give my corys tetra tabimin, cory pellets and i grind in bug bites at the top for my other fish fine so they have that also.

I give the Tetramin flake, Tetra shrimp wafers, Fluval bug bites, Live & frozen bloodworm & Brine shrimp, Newly hatched Nauplii/Artemia
I changed to the Shrimp wafers & Bug bites from King British Catfish Pellets & Algae wafers

They never have the same food more than once a week, Although them new shrimp wafers are going down very well

jonny-5 said:

I give the Tetramin flake, Tetra shrimp wafers, Fluval bug bites, Live & frozen bloodworm & Brine shrimp, Newly hatched Nauplii/Artemia
I changed to the Shrimp wafers & Bug bites from King British Catfish Pellets & Algae wafers

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I don't like the wafers with the waste they leave behind, i think mine are King British pellets i know i've just brought a tub off amazon in their sale 200g for £7 i soon jumped at it and the tabimin throw off food which smaller fish get fed on, this is all at 3pm but at 9 they get flake food with my other fish.