Cories Cleaning Up

[nicnak]

well ive just put 6 cories in my tank and i cant believe how well they clean up... didnt expect this at all... do they really eat poop?

 

[Shrimper]

They dont eat poo, but do eat any food that sinks to the bottom that the other fish cant/wont eat.

They definatly don't eat their own poo, when I moved my corys from my Betta tank to the big tank the gravel was surprisingly clean when I did the weekly water change.

 

[jollysue]

No the Corys don't eat poo.

They are subseptible to infections from dirty substrate though. So try to keep it vacumed regularly.

 

[nicnak]

But there's nothing left tp vacum by the morning..... the sand is perfectly clean

Maybe its being sifted under the sand?

 

[OldMan47]

Since cories will sift through and even dig through the top layer of sand, you may see less visible but that doesn't remove the wastes from the tank.

 

[jollysue]

Maybe nicnak has super good filtration