feeding cory cats

[fishwatcher]

I have 2 cory cats, and just want to make sure I'm feeding them ok. I use the sinking shrimp pellets, and of course whatever flake food falls. Is this enough? Do they need alge wafers or tubifex worms or anything like that? I have 2 ADFs that eat the same as they do, too.
Thanks!

 

[Inchworm]

Hi fishwatcher

I don't recommend feeding shrimp pellets to corys anymore. It seems like there is just too much filler in them which remains uneaten and ends up in the gravel.

Corys do best with a fair amount of protien in their diet. I feed mine live blackworms and tubifex worms and sometimes the frozen bloodworms. To supplement this I give them a high quality flake food, spirulina discs and freeze dried tubifex worms.

To get more flake food down to them, just take a pinch between your fingers and put your hand in the water, then flick them downward. Your other fish might eat some on the way down, but there will be more there for the corys.

Your little frogs will enjoy the live worms too! If any escape into the gravel, the corys or frogs will eat them for a snack later.

 

[fishwatcher]

Is the fact that a lot gets into the gravel the main reason you don't give them shrimp pellets? I also have frozen brineshrimp, that I give about once a week. I just don't know who eats them... the cories or the frogs!

 

[Inchworm]

Hi fishwatcher

Yes. Wardley's shrimp pellets, for example, contain a large amount of ground wheat which the corys don't eat. They also have a crude protien content of only 30%. Compare that with the Ocean Nutrition Formula One flake food I feed them, which has a minimum of 55% crude protien, and you will see a big difference in nutrition. If you consider that there is no waste, it is well worth spending a little bit more money for such quality.

Both the corys and the frogs will eat the brine shrimp, but unless they are the baby brine shrimp, their nutritional content is small compared to the frozen bloodworms. With either one, do take care that there is none left uneaten in the tank because they will spoil quickly.

Best of all, for all your fish and frogs, is the live tubifex or blackworms. If it is possible for you to buy some locally, give them a try. I think you will be pleased with their response to them. If you need to know how to clean and keep them, let me know and I will post about it.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I feed mine catfish pelets and alage wafers and they do fine on it although if i could get hold of live/frozen foods i'd feed them that too If they havn't cleared up all their food within 30mins and are ignoring it means you are feeding them too much.
But with any sinking foods in gravel based tanks you should still do lots of gravel vacs on the tank as sinking foods are much less likely to get washed into the filter like fish flakes and will rot in between the gravel if not cleaned up enough- even the corys won't eat them if they start to go off.

 

[sarah-j]

hiya, i just bought catfish pellets and my 5 cory's love them. they pick a pellet and eat it till its all gone .

 

[fishwatcher]

OK, so they will eat algae wafers? I just bought some tubifix worm squares (they are sold in a jar). I think they will like them. Of course, it's hard to tell what the cories are eating, and the frogs are eating!

 

[bettaboi]

how do you feed the bloodworms i just got some cories and i have some blood worms i would like to feed em just curious

 

[daudy_dojo]

when you feed bloodworms just try to let some sink to the bottom... when i do it a place some down on the bottom! or i put just a lil more than my top ppl can handle so they let it fall

 

[rdd1952]

I also feed mine the sinking shrimp pellets but I don't think there is ever anything left over. I have sand so I don't have to worry about the leftovers getting down in the gravel. Also, my SAEs, tetras and angels feast on them too. It is worse than any shark feeding frenzy when those thing hit the bottom. I also feed flakes, frozen bloodworms, daphnia, brine shrimp and tubiflex.

 

[Philtre]

I would feed them other foods over algae discs. Corydoras are not really algae eaters. Some of the food that you might wanna check out are
Tetra Tabimin
Discusbits
JBL bits or JBL novotabs
etc

All these are readily accepted by my cories.

 

[dwarfgourami]

The staple food of mine is something called Tetra Tabimin tablets for catfish, which contains mainly fish and crustacean but also algae. They hoover it up. Mine won't eat the King British catfish pellets; they just don't seem to like them. Once a week I feed bloodworms in jelly (tetradelica) or brine shrimp (tetradelica), and at least once peas or spinach.