New To Corys, Question About Their Eating Habits

craftyjag

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Hi All, I'm brand new to the forum and to Corys and I've got a question about my new little guys. My tank finished cycling on Sunday so I was off to the fish store to begin my stocking. I've got a 29 gallon planted tank and it's the first time (after years of having fish) that I'm learning enough to try to do it correctly (cycling, the right fish for my water, etc.). My stocking plan is a school of Lemon Tetras and a school of 6 Sterbai Corys. I was going to start stocking slowly with the Tetras but the store had sold out so I brought home 3 of the Corys.

The Corys are very active and are swimming up and down the glass and all over the substrate, which I understand is fairly common when they are checking out a new home. I didn't feed them yesterday and today I've given them a few of the sinking pellets for bottom feeders and my concern is that they are completely ignoring them and as far as I can tell, haven't eaten anything. Is this normal when they are a little stressed from the change in environment? I'm not sure how often to try to feed them or how much because I don't want a problem of a bunch of pellets decomposing until the next water change.

Any advice would be welcome!
 
What type of wafers are you giving them? They may not like all of them in the beginning but will get used to eat absolutely everything that sinks to the bottom.
Mine went crazy for the hikari sinking wafers(orange pack). And they love blood worms of course.
 
It may take them a while to settle in and start eating. Syphon out any old pellets after a couple of hours so they don't just sit and rot!
 
Sorry, didn't get back to my computer for a couple of days. I'm feeding them Aqueon Shrimp Pellets for bottom feeders. They seem to have settled down quite a bit and are checking out more of the substrate now so hopefully they will find the food too. I'm trying not to over feed them just to be sure for the first week so that I don't have to keep fishing mushy pellets out :sick: .
 

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