10 Gallon Tank What to feed my fish

My current stocking for fish is 6 neon tetras, and I am planning on getting 1 honey gourami, and 4 salt and pepper corys. Here are my current foods I'm planning on getting:

For tetras, I have the Tetra Color Tropical Flakes

For the corys, I have the Omega One Sinking Shrimp Pellets (would algae wafers be better?)

And for the gourami my question is-Can I feed him the Hikari Betta Bio-Gold Baby Pellets? I know bettas and gouramis are similar and I really like this food so I was just wondering if I could also give it to him. If not I was thinking of the New Life Spectrum Marine Fish Tropical Food Pellets.

And then of course once(or twice?) a week feeding frozen blood worms.

Thanks for the help

 

Sounds like a pretty sound plan. I do believe the shrimp pellets would be better for the cories, but if they eat an akgae wafer every so often shouldn't hurt anything, either.

 

Ok. And you think the beta pellets would be fine?

 

I beleive that your stocking plan would overstock your tank.
IMHOP, honey gourami do better in a school of 6+
Cories need to be in a school of 6+
Sorry!
Tetra brands of food are consitantly junky. and unfortunatly so is betta bio gold. Many of Hikaris food went way down hill. Bettas are carnivores, and this food has a Huge amount of grains in the first, most important ingrediants.
Hikari betta bio gold =
Fish meal, wheat flour, soybean meal, rice bran, potato starch, krill meal, corn gluten meal, wheat germ meal, brewers dried yeast, wheat gluten meal, fish oil, DL-methionine, spirulina, garlic, dried seaweed meal, astaxanthin, choline chloride, vitamin E supplement, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (stabilized vitamin C),
Tetra color tropical =
Fish Meal, Dehulled Soybean Meal, Wheat Germ Meal, Wheat Flour, Corn Gluten, Feeding Oat Meal, Potato Protein, Shrimp Meal, Dried Yeast, Wheat Gluten, Monobasic Calcium Phosphate, L-Lysine Mono-Hydrochloride, Lecithin, Algae Meal, Soybean Oil, Ascorbic Acid, Inositol, Niacin, A-Tocopherol-Acetate, Riboflavin-5-

Fish need meat and vegetables, not garbage fillers. Especial carnivores like bettas. Any food you put in the tank is likly to be eaten buy all the species, you need to try to find a food that is good for everybody! FYI, bettas are carnivous, gourami and cories and neons are all ominvours.

New life spectra makes Great foods. But you dont need the marine formulla, I recomend New life spectra thera plus A, the Naturox formulla is even better. But either would work for all 4 species.
Omega one is usually pretty good, bug bites are great, Frozen blood worms or daphnia or shrimp1-2 times a week are important for a betta.

 

For anyone reading this thread in the future: I will buy the New Life Spectrum Thera+A, and will probably still mix in the tetra flakes every once in a while because I don’t want it to go to waste. Plus, it will add a little variety(maybe once a week). Then the shrimp pellets for the corys, with frozen bloodworms once a week(any favorite brands?)

Thank you all so much for the help!
(Also I don't have a betta I was just asking if I could use the food for the gourami)

 

I beleive that your stocking plan would overstock your tank.
IMHOP, honey gourami do better in a school of 6+
Cories need to be in a school of 6+
Sorry!

Thanks for the info but I have done quite a bit of research on my part and have decided to make these stocking decisions. The actual bio-load wouldn't be overstocked but, if you are making the argument that it is overcrowded then I can answer for that. I have lots of plants in my tank including some floating plants and a cave for them to hide if wanted to. They are all peaceful fish as I am sure you know. I understand if you disagree with me and that is totally fine.

 

Thanks for the info but I have done quite a bit of research on my part and have decided to make these stocking decisions. The actual bio-load wouldn't be overstocked but, if you are making the argument that it is overcrowded then I can answer for that. I have lots of plants in my tank including some floating plants and a cave for them to hide if wanted to. They are all peaceful fish as I am sure you know. I understand if you disagree with me and that is totally fine.

I understand where you are coming from and obviously you feel that your stocking is going to be OK in those numbers.

However, please remember that Cories breed like the proverbial rabbit. Your 4 Cories only need one male/3 female for your aquarium to become rapidly overstocked within weeks.

I do not intend to rain on your parade but to speak from my own experience of starting with 6 Cories and having lost count at 20+ within 6 months. I am not the only Cory keeper to find this happen once the fish reach their maturity....they go into automatic breeding mode at the slightest drop in water temperature (such as during water changes) and at night alot too. Much of the time, you will not even know that eggs have hatched until you find you have more than 4 of the little blighters wriggling about in the substrate cos the babies hide exceptionally well until they are big enough to venture out and about and be seen by their shocked and surprised owner.

There is a slight defensiveness in your response, which is absolutely fine....you did your homework on what can safely fit into your aquarium, I get that...but you have included a prolific breeder species in that stock, so just be aware that your stock will potentially increase quite rapidly.

 

The op was not asking for stocking advice just what food to use.
They have now decided what food to get so no further responses are necessary.
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