Cory food

[TetraMon]

Hey I have three cory cats, I feed them Nutrafin Max sinkin tabs but they make a mess. What do you people use, and how often do you feed them?

 

[billy61788]

i feed mine normal flakes and fish pellets...i soak them for about 10 minutes in water and stire every now and then to waterlog them. my lfs doesnt have sinking catfish pellets so they reccomended i do this and it works fine...i cant really say how often i feed them but its every now and then...alot of food sinks to the bottom that other fish dont eat so thats always available to them too

 

[HeatherSweetness]

I use flakes,pellets,algae wafers (their fave) and live bloodworms once a week. They'll eat about anything that sinks to the bottom. The least messy thing I've used was flakes,algae wafers can get messy if you have larger rocks for a substrate,pellets too. Bloodworms are always messy. They give off the wormy fog when they start chewing at them,but you can always siphon the gravel.

 

[Cheese Specialist]

I use catfish pellets and an algae tablet which the love! They are in the spot when the tablet has gone for hours finding all the last bits!

I feed them the same as I feed my other fish, once ever other day.

 

[Inchworm]

...algae wafers can get messy if you have larger rocks for a substrate,pellets too.

Hummm........this should not be a problem because anything other than sand or fine gravel is a very unsuitable substrate for corys. In the long run such substrate is likely to damage their delicate barbels and result in their deaths.

If you are using pebbles or rocks that they cannot easily push aside, please either change it to something more appropriate or remove the corys from that tank.

I feed mine lots of live bloodworms and tubiflex worms, spirulina disks, shrimp pellets and sinking granules.

 

[TetraMon]

Thanks peeps I'm gonna have to try some algae tabs.

 

[snowyangel]

Mine love brine shrimp pellets, and will eat any uneaten flakes, frozen blood worms and tubifex worms that reach the bottom. I feed mine 2x a day

 

[Captain Canuck]

Hey I have three cory cats, I feed them Nutrafin Max sinkin tabs but they make a mess.

I use that too, but it doesn't stay there long enough to make a mess. I also include worm, catfish pellets and occasionally half an algae wafer.

 

[HeatherSweetness]

If you are using pebbles or rocks that they cannot easily push aside, please either change it to something more appropriate or remove the corys from that tank.

I have more round slightly larger rocks in my cory tank because the smaller ones they had were sharp and jaggedy. There's just more gaps in between them for the food to fall through as they eat. I have to siphon often.