Feeding Corys

I'm really having a hard time figuring out how much my corys need to eat. Can anyone who has a lot of experience with them tell me? I have 4 of them, though they are all weirdly enough in descending sizes (that's how they came) so that there's a big one, a middle sized one and two small ones. They are peppered corys.

What I have to offer them is shrimp pellets, which they seem to like. There are also a couple of kinds of regular fish food and of course the betta's food.

I was told that the snail needs about 4 pellets a day but I'm worried about the fish eating those as well as their own food.

I'd really appreciate some advice. It only occured to me now that the advice on the container and that I got at the pet store is inadequate.

I know for a fact some people on here have corydoras catfish. I'd really appreciate someone telling me how much they feed theirs.

 

I bought 3 panda corries yesterday I am feeding them Tetra Variety flakes which they seem to like. I only feed them 1 flake between them because they are very small (around 3/4 inch) and they don't even finish that one flake.

I think it probably depends on the corries. Just remember not to overfeed them.

Try feeding the betta and the corries on opposite sides of the tank so that they don't eat each others food and you know what they are eating.

Hope this helps a little.

Gwenz

 

The pandas look so nice, I'm glad you found some Gwenz.

My four seem to be able to finish a pellet in about five minutes between them. The instructions say that I'm supposed to give them 3-4 times daily what they can finish in under half an hour. So if I do that 3 x a day that seems reasonable.

 

Yes that sounds fine. I feed mine about 3 times a day.

Gwenz

 

Give them as much variety as you can! Try veggie wafers, spirulina sticks/pellets, etc. Also get some good quality tubifex cubes (Hikari, Omega One) and smash one against the glass just above the substrate. They should go apey! Do this only once a week though. The worms are high in fat and messy in your tank. They really love 'em!

 

Thanks Gunnie I'll try to find these somewhere. I live in UK and we don't have HikarI / Omega One foods here. What are tubifex cubes?

Thanks

Gwenz

Gunnie would these be the kind of thing to get?





Thanks

Gwenz

 

I'll have to try that. My corys also like the betta flakes, which my betta doesn't really eat but nibbles at just out of curiousity.

 

I have 3 new panda corries and I have been feeding them Tetra Variety Wafers. Today I bought some TetraPlecomin for all bottom feeding tropical fish (contains algae) and some Tubifex. How often should I feed these? And how do I feed the Tubifex to them, just stick them to the glass?

Thanks

Gwenz

 

Should I be feeding the tubifex to them often, or just once or twice a week? And what about the algae flakes? (There is no algae in the tank)

Thanks

Gwenz

 

I think the tubifex should be fed about once a week, since they're a very rich kind of food. What form do they come in, freeze dried?

I feed my corys three pellets a day, at different intervals, and I have four of the beasts. They seem to be doing well enough on that. Now and then I float a few fish flakes in the water and they eat those as well. I haven't tried the worms yet but I'm going to get some next week. The thing is, normally with corys you might have them in a community tank with livebearers or tetras or whatnot, and they get a decent diet scavenging what the other fish don't eat as well as having a pellet or two per day, but with a betta it's more difficult because you make sure you only feed the betta as much as he's guaranteed to eat and digest.

 

Thanks you answered my question ;D. At the moment they are in a tank by themselves in my Q tank. They will be going to the 7.5 gallon tank when it's cycled with a betta.

Gwenz

 

BTW, fair warning: you may have to be careful, some bettas (like mine) are complete and utter pigs and will eat just about anything you put in. I've never seen a betta do that before but Rusty does. You may need to make sure not to feed your betta regular food when you are feeding something rich like tubifex worms. It's not a huge BEWARE, just advising you to keep an eye on what he does.

 

OK thanks. I haven't got a betta yet but will keep that in mind for when I do have a betta.

Gwenz

 

Bruce will try to eat almost every thing that's out in his tank as well

 

Stick just one cube against the glass just above the bottom of the tank. Don't feed them more than twice a week. They are high in fat and very messy. You will probably have to do a quick vacuum after they are done eating also. Tubifex are very messy, but my corys absolute go nuts for them. Hopefully you have a good brand like HikarI or Omega One. My fish won't touch the Wardley brand. I think they sit too long on the shelf.

 

We don't have HikarI or Omega One or Wardley brand in UK. (Or Ihaven't heard about them and can't find them anywhere). I have the "Interpet" brand.

Gwenz

 

Go ahead and try them. I've never heard of that brand.

 

The cubes are 1cm by 1cm. Is this the normal size for them or is this too big? My corries are only small (3/4 of an inch) and don't eat much can I cut them in half?

Thanks

Gwenz

 

Yep. Cut them in half. They will pull the worms off the cube.

 

Thank Gunnie. I cut one in half and tried to stick it to the glass just above the bottom of the tank, but it wouldn't stick to the glass and floating to the top. I took it out because I didn't want it just floating around the tank. What can I do? Am I doing it wrong?

Thanks

Gwenz

 

My spotted cories don't seem to see the NLS small fish pellets I have.
They're tiny little guys right now, so I'm not sure if they'd handle wafers...and which ones should I get, if I do?
Little help?

 

I use the sinking wafers for bottom feeders for my guys a couple times a week. They just pile on and munch away until it gone.

 

Alright. You think the NLS wafers would be right for them, or should I ind something more specific to catfish?

 

I feed my cories NLS wafers and HikarI shrimp pellets.

 

OK. Hopefully they will like it.

 

They should eat anything that sinks. My cories eat wafers, pellets, flakes, anything they can sift up. (they like frozen bloodworms too.

 

I'm thinking the small fish pellets are just too hard for them to find, being so tiny. They don't appear to know it's there.

 

I feed my corys these:

 

The wafers get soft after awhile so they can eat them. Mine like shrimp pellets, which pretty much disintegrate into fluff, but I just this evening found a piece of algae wafer that they totally ignored. (Yuck.) I'm sure it varies fish to fish, so you may have to try a couple things to find something they like. However it sounds like most cories are garbage disposals, so maybe mine are just picky.

 

Good morning,

For my Cory Cats I use the foods below:







Ken

 

mine also really love the frozen blood worms. its funny to see the worms hanging out of there mouths. I also feed wardleys shrimp pellets, hikarI bottom feeders wafers, hikarI algae wafers, and sprinkle flakes along the ground.

had some tetramin, wafers I think. but they were way to messy.

 

Well, I called the Petco where I got them and they said the cories were given shrimp pellets and whatever fell from the other fish. For some reason they don't seem to like the NLS pellets (they pick them up and spit them out now) so I, being on a limited budget, decided to get them the best brand of whatever they were used to so I could be sure they ate. I settled on Omega One shrimp pellets and they eat those, although the little guys are so small I have to crush the pellets so they can get it in their mouths.
I'm a little worried about one of them. He doesn't move around much and tends not to school with the other three.

 

I just introduced 4 Bronze Cory Cats into my 29 gallon community tank yesterday after spending 4 weeks in quarantine. They seem to be doing fine but I'm not sure how to properly feed them now that there is competition from other fish in the tank. I've been feeding mostly sinking pellets but the platies and danios get almost all of them before they hit the bottom. I purchased some HikarI sinking wafers but I'm unsure of (1) How often and how many to feed and (2) the best way to feed to prevent the greedy platies from getting to them first. Thanks for your advice!

 

They'll find something to eat like crumbs but if you want during the time when it's lights out and the fish can't see anything just throw the sinking pellets and the cory's will get to them eventually.

 

Mine have no trouble competing for food. If the other fish eat them all before they reach the bottom, then try feeding more at once so some gets through. Also, putting the food in the filter outflow will disperse it better throughout the tank. Or you could get a turkey baster and deposit the food closer to the bottom. Corys don't eat algae so they don't really need algae wafers. They eat aquatic worms and inverts and such, so a high quality staple food is best.

 

I alternate between putting in algae wafers and sinking shrimp pellets after I turn out the lights at night for my BN and 6 corys. They eat some of the stuff that I feed the fish off the bottom and they love the fresh veggies but with what I put in after lights out I know they are getting what they need and enough to eat.

 

I feed flake foods, algae wafers and frozen plankton, I place the complete cube frozen just under the sand and as it melts the cories dig them out none of my other fish ever notice them

 

I feed corys large sinking pellets that are too big for my other fish. And they also pick up any scraps from the other fish (small pellets, flakes, bloodworms). And very occasionally I'll throw in an algae wafer, which reminds me, I haven't done that in a long time.

 

Take a baby food jar or something simular, put your food for the corries in this and cover lightly with substrate. This works well with live blackworms, shrimp pellets. You could also try the rapashy superfoods.

 

Thanks for all of the suggestions!