Not All Getting Fed!

[Keithbaxter]

Ive cut down the feeding in my tank to both reduce the bad stats from some bad plants and to better keep the tank in the long term.

Im putting very small amounts of food in the top and its all getting eaten by my guppies and glowlites. There just grab it all straight away and then wait for more.

But im now a little concerned that the corydorys and the loaches arnt getting enough. The loaches seem to be doubled in size already and are constantly sucking the rocks, plants and glass so im guessing there fine but the corydorys are just milling around like before and just nudging the gravel about and being normal. They have been no different and its only a concern. (i fed some bloodworms and they all got some and all bar the loaches seemed to love them)

Just a little questions no problems more curious!

Maybe corydory's eat things i dont notice i dont know.

 

[blue acara]

I have the same situation in my tank. I target feed my corys using a turkey baster to get food right to them. I also drop a couple of earthworm pellets and algae wafers at night for plecos.

 

[Gilli]

If you are feeding flake food put a little of the tank water in an egg cup add the flakes and swill it round then pour it into the tank. You will find it sinks right away and if you drop it in in several places in the tank it wont give the greedier fish time to snatch it all up before it reaches the bottom and the poor old Corys should get some!

 

[Amunet]

You could give them an algae wafer or 2 or some kind of sinking pellet

 

[jonnyf84]

as above, i feed mine different varieties of sinking pellets and they nibble on the odd wafer (Indeed sometimes they steal it from under my big bristly's mouth - i love em, just fearless )

 

[jourdy288]

You may want to try some pellets, maybe along with trying to get more food under the surface, so the cory cats can get it. The mollies eating it all, 'eh? Greedy little gits they are !

You may want to try some pellets, maybe along with trying to get more food under the surface, so the cory cats can get it. The guppies eating it all, 'eh? Greedy little gits they are !

 

[tyyrlym]

Two options, the first is you feed your regular fish one one side of the tank while water logging some food on the other. While your top feeders are busy on one side dump the water logged flakes in the other.

Second, and what I do, is just get some sinking pellets for corys and feed them right after light's out.

 

[Keithbaxter]

Thanks everyone.

I will be getting some sinking pellets this weekend, I need some new fish flakes aswell

I love this forum for this reason quick and perfect reponses with excellent advice.

 

[NonstickRon]

I got some rams recently and the cory's and my bristlenose are having a hard time getting any of the sinking wafers. About the same time I got the Rams I switched to New Life Spectrum...even the tetras go after the NLS wafers...its pretty amazing how all my fish love them. The male rams actually each claim a wafer. Sometimes they'll fight over them. My solution has been to break them up into smaller pieces and scatter them.

 

[Corleone]

A variation on NonstickRon's solution that works well for me, I drop an unbroken algae wafer and some unbroken shrimp pellets at one end of the tank, where my keyhole cichlids and bristlenose claim - these three fish will claim food they have no intention of eating, and will defend it for several minutes before other fish take it away. Corys aren't confrontational enough to eat around them. Then I start feeding flake and other floating food at the same end of the tank, and while fish are occupied, I scatter broken pellets and wafers into a densely planted section of the tank at the opposite end, which is where the corys usually hang out. The cichlids and bristlenose aren't interested in defending small bits of food, and by the time the bulk of the tank realizes there's more food than what they're occupied with, it's scattered well enough for the corys to get a good meal.

Sounds like a real production, sometimes when you have a wide mix of temperaments, you have to come up with creative solutions to feeding conflicts.