BABY CORY FOOD CRISIS

[BlueMeanieBettaFish]

Help! Ive hatched around 19 Baby corys, and my local stores dont have any proper food for them, and it doesnt look like they eat crushed up flakes or sinking wafers, but somehow theyre still alive? I need to know what theyre eating, there is some wisps of algae on the walls, and alls theyre doing is swimming up and down the walls, arent they supposed to stick to the substrate?! Im so confused and i really want these little guys to live

 

[Sgooosh]

Help! Ive hatched around 19 Baby corys, and my local stores dont have any proper food for them, and it doesnt look like they eat crushed up flakes or sinking wafers, but somehow theyre still alive? I need to know what theyre eating, there is some wisps of algae on the walls, and alls theyre doing is swimming up and down the walls, arent they supposed to stick to the substrate?! Im so confused and i really want these little guys to live

hi, theres a lot of algae and small food particles, i reccomend just feeding powdered normal cory food, so they can slurp it.

 

[Byron]

The more established an aquarium is--and established does not mean just cycled, it means the tank has been cycled and then running for some weeks--the more natural microscopic food is in there, and that is what fry eat. You can encourage this by putting dried leaves like oak in the tank, or buy almond leaves from fish stores. As the leaves decompose very slowly, they produce a lot of infusoria. It will also be present in algae mats, surfaces, etc, so the cories grazing these are searching for (and probably finding some) infusoria. Once fry are at the free swimming stage, they will be hunting for such food.

I also drop in one or two shrimp pellets; it is amazing how quickly cory fry learn this is "food."

 

[Back in the fold]

I agree most wholeheartedly with @Byron . In an established aquarium, as described above, there are things for fry to eat that are not readily seen. Now, since you will probably get past this and raise some of these fry be better prepared for the next time. Begin culturing small Iive foods and have a variety of prepared fry foods on hand. Newly hatched baby brine shrimp tend to sink down unless a strong light source draws them up and Grindal worms would be perfect for Corydoras fry. Try your hand at live food culturing and you will increase your success in this hobby by raising good vigorous fish.

 

[coriesinhawaii]

Help! Ive hatched around 19 Baby corys, and my local stores dont have any proper food for them, and it doesnt look like they eat crushed up flakes or sinking wafers, but somehow theyre still alive? I need to know what theyre eating, there is some wisps of algae on the walls, and alls theyre doing is swimming up and down the walls, arent they supposed to stick to the substrate?! Im so confused and i really want these little guys to live

In an emergency you can feed very finely crushed sinking wafers. (I’m talking almost dust-fine). Dissolve it in some tank water and then add it into the area of the tank the fry are in. Even better to use a dropper with a long tip like a turkey baster to add it right where they are. You’ll want to remove the uneaten food after 20 or 30 minutes to keep waste from building up in the tank. Feed at least 3 times a day. Cory fry don’t start eating til 2 or 3 days after hatching. They live off the yolk sack until then.