Do Corys Eat Cucumber

[aaronnorth]

i feed mine catfish pellets, what else do they eat, i also feed bloodworm but i don't know if they eat this

 

[Luketendo]

They eat courgette and that is much better for them than cucumber.

Don't over feed it though because corys are mainly carnivore.

 

[Barracuda518]

They eat courgette and that is much better for them than cucumber.

Don't over feed it though because corys are mainly carnivore.

Mine won't eat either of those.

They get flake food, brine shrimp sticks, earthworm sticks, Boyd's Vita Diet, algae wafers, frozen blood worms, live blackworms, and Tetra Tetramin Tropical Tablets. I also will give them Hikari sinking wafers and carnivore pellots. Not all at the same time of course.

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[Elaine2]

My corys like the Tetra Tabimin sinking tablets and they adore bloodworm. They have never shown any interest in vegetables which I feed to the plecs (generally courgette, sweet potato and butternut squash).

 

[sheldon]

My corys like the Tetra Tabimin sinking tablets and they adore bloodworm. They have never shown any interest in vegetables which I feed to the plecs (generally courgette, sweet potato and butternut squash).

How do you prepare your plecs food? boil? micro? How long? Please let me know I cooked zuccini for my plec and it sat for 1 day he did not even look at it. I boiled it for 12 minutes.

 

[Luketendo]

Well my corys did take steamed courgette and I was suprised how much had gone. My cherry barbs had some too.

 

[Elaine2]

Hello Sheldon - I don't cook the vegetables for the plecs. Just wash them (and peel, other than courgette) and drop them in the tank, weighted with a lead strip that you get around bunched plants. Mine certainly don't like anything soggy, which will happen if they are cooked.

 

[sheldon]

Hello Sheldon - I don't cook the vegetables for the plecs. Just wash them (and peel, other than courgette) and drop them in the tank, weighted with a lead strip that you get around bunched plants. Mine certainly don't like anything soggy, which will happen if they are cooked.

Thanks Elaine2, I thought that it might be to hard for the plecs but if you say throw it in raw I'll give that a try. I guess i try some potato also.

 

[Matty P]

They eat courgette and that is much better for them than cucumber.

Don't over feed it though because corys are mainly carnivore.

Why is courgette better thab cucumber for them?

 

[Luketendo]

They eat courgette and that is much better for them than cucumber.

Don't over feed it though because corys are mainly carnivore.

Why is courgette better thab cucumber for them?

Because cucumber is made mainly of water which leaves little space for yummy nutrient bits.

 

[jarcher1390]

dont need to cook any vegetables especially for plecs.
I never knew cories ate cucumber or courgette.
Thanks Jonny

 

[raptorrex]

My corys like the Tetra Tabimin sinking tablets and they adore bloodworm. They have never shown any interest in vegetables which I feed to the plecs (generally courgette, sweet potato and butternut squash).

How do you prepare your plecs food? boil? micro? How long? Please let me know I cooked zuccini for my plec and it sat for 1 day he did not even look at it. I boiled it for 12 minutes.

wash it, snap it and weight it down. simple as.

Hello Sheldon - I don't cook the vegetables for the plecs. Just wash them (and peel, other than courgette) and drop them in the tank, weighted with a lead strip that you get around bunched plants. Mine certainly don't like anything soggy, which will happen if they are cooked.

my plecios dont like it soft, cory only nibble. never peel any veg, much of the vitermin content is in or just below the skin.

Thanks Elaine2, I thought that it might be to hard for the plecs but if you say throw it in raw I'll give that a try. I guess i try some potato also.

plecos can and do chomp on mopani wood, which is a little harder than any veg. take care with potato.

They eat courgette and that is much better for them than cucumber.

Don't over feed it though because corys are mainly carnivore.

Why is courgette better thab cucumber for them?

Because cucumber is made mainly of water which leaves little space for yummy nutrient bits.

in fact the water content, by weight, of courgette and cucumber, is 95%. energy is much the same too, but in the form of sugars, so its usefulness to fish, my well be limited. dietary fibre is identical, that leaves us with vitamins and minerals, which is where courgettes may score over cucumber.
my guess is that you may be right, though only marginally, BUT, it in no way could be "much" better.