David C

How much food should a cory eat a day? I feed mine sinking shrimp pellets which they love, but its hard to tell how much to feed them and i definately dont want them to starve or overfeed.... sooooooo should each cory get the equivalent of 1 pellet spread through the 3 feedings or 1/2 a pellet or 2 pellets or (im confusing myself )

im sure im overthinking this and its probably quite simple... but id rather the experts weighed in and I did it right

Thanks

Shawnie

My lil corys get a pellet at night time each..during the day, they take care of the diatoms and food the other fishies dont eat..I dont want to overfeed them or they wont keep my tank bottom clean lol

David C

mine are in a tank by themselves so there is no excess food to eat, thats why im trying to adjust their diet. if i drop in two pellets for 5 cories for all 3 of their feedings, they seem to have it gone within a few minutes with nothing excess on the tank bottom (its sand so its easy to tell)... but it still seems like a lot of food and I dont want to overfeed. I know you understand

Shawnie

yes I do...fish stomachs are the size of one eye..so just keep that in mind when feeding

sirdarksol

I don't have cories right now, but I have kuhli loaches, and they get fed once a night. Sometimes, when I feed the rest of the fish slow-sinking food, they get a daytime treat, too.

Je55*e

I have a couple of cory cats in my tank. I had been feeding them sinking algae wafers, but they don't seem terribly interested in them. What is considered the best things to feed them? (I've read the above, and I wonder if mine should also have something like a shrimp pellet each a day?)

David C

I feed mine shrimp because the Wardleys shrimp pellets has a picture of a cory on it

Not sure really if it's the best, but i know they also scavenge excess food you feed to the rest of the tank and generally keep it clean.

Butterfly

I feed my corys once a day. Even though you only have corys in the tank there is probably still little bits of their food in the substrate they can scavenge for. There is also micro fauna growing in the tank they love to munch on.
Besides shrimp pellets, they also love thawed frozen blood worms. Mine also nibble on the zuchinni I put in for the BNs. Mine also like veggie pellets. Hope that helps.
Carol

David C

I tried cucumber, and they didn't touch it, although they did sniff at it quite a bit. I'll try zuchinni this week and see if it works. I know I appreciate all advice

sirdarksol

With most veggies, you need to do something to start breaking the cell walls down to make it interesting (and easier) for the fish to eat. There are two ways to do this (that I know of):
One, you can just put the veggie in the tank and let it sit. Eventually, bacteria will break it down enough for the fish to eat it. This does risk introducing more nitrogen to your tank.
Two, you can parboil the veggie. Get some water boiling, drop a slice of zucchini or cucumber in the water, and turn the heat off. After a minute or two, pull the veggie out and put it in the tank.

David C

Good advice sirdarksol, I'll try that out with the zucc and see if it helps.