What To Feed Panda Cories And How Often

Hello,
I have a Juwel Rio 240l with 8 neon tetras and 6 panda cories.
I currently feed my panda cories sinking shrimp wafers every 2 days and I also think they seem to eat tiny leftover pellets I feed my neons and white Fungus growing in my Driftwood, since there's been less after pandas were added.
I was wondering:
Is sinking shrimp wafers every 2 days okay or I should feed everyday instead? How often to feed?
What else can you food them? Can you feed them algae wafers and boiled cucumbers?
Thanks!

 

Cory will much on a variety of uneaten food, and organic waste matter. The shrimp wafers are ideal, and they should continue to be fed that.

You can also feed them a variety of sinking pellets, or wafers. You need to feed them an hour after the lights go off. I feed my cories when the moon lights go on, which is an hour after the daytime lights are put off.

They might eat the veggies, but best to keep them on a carnivorous diet, but you can feed them the veggies too!

 

I feed my mystery snails zucchinI and spinach leaves, and my cories love it! I also feed them sinking shrimp pellets and they eat flakes when they make it to the floor.

 

I might try feeding my cories some veggies every so often, they might love me forever.

I've got an adorable female, which apparently is named Phillis. Everyone liked that name, and it wasn't even suggested by me! Pretty sure she is mated with the male I have in the tank, they're always together, and won't leave each others side very long.

 

Though Cories will nibble on vegs and algaewafers they won't get any nutritional value out of them. They serious are 99,9% carnivores. variation is the key-word. Shrimppellets, bloodworms, brineshrimp, daphnia etc etc.

My albino aeneus nibling of cauliflower meand for my BN's.

 

Yes, the veggies in my tank are supposed to be for the snails, but I see the cories eating them more often.
I guess everyone likes junk food, even fish...

 

They sure like to munch on it!

We feed our cory shrimp, mainly, but they will always eat pretty much anything.

 

I give mine the apI sinking pellets as they are high protein,


Also peppers cucumber and especially courgette as its full of nutrients.

 

That's very instresting how you can feed your fish a lot of stuff

Well, ,maybe just there food or blood worms but I say every like weekend or something unless you feed him a lot prob in 5 days if you feed him alot

Sometimes they like diffrent things and you could give them wafers whichever

 

For some reason mine love to attack sinking algae wafers

 

I feed my corys wafers a few times a week to make sure they are eating. If my community is missing a bit of food I know they are eating some anyway. If you overfeed corys they have no motivation to pick up some scraps which I rely on them to do to a small degree. I want them slightly hungry and busy foraging for scraps.

 

Yeah, that's nice.

 

Mine are like bottomless pits, the younger ones literally don't stop eating like its actually constant foraging or on the cucumber till its a shell or I take it out.

 

Babies eat more because they need to, grow and everything but Yes, take it out.

 

I feed my corys wafers a few times a week to make sure they are eating. If my community is missing a bit of food I know they are eating some anyway. If you overfeed corys they have no motivation to pick up some scraps which I rely on them to do to a small degree. I want them slightly hungry and busy foraging for scraps.

That's not entirely correct. Corys, even full and fat, will scavage the tank for the last particles they can find.

 

Mine are like bottomless pits, the younger ones literally don't stop eating like its actually constant foraging or on the cucumber till its a shell or I take it out.

They really hardly get any nutritional value from vegs / algaewafers / etc....

Coryguru Ian Fuller last week stated on FB that they nibble on algaewafers in search for real "protein"food.

So I'd feed at least 95% meaty / protein.

 

My cories only ever pick at plants and algae (or algae wafers) when there's nothing better to be had. They love bloodworms and brine shrimp, and are on the same shrimp pellet as my larger catfish species.

DoubleDutch and OnTheFly I agree with you both - my cories hardly ever stop foraging, and given enough time they'll pick up every single flake that hits the bottom, but if I give them a few shrimp pellets they'll alternate between eating the pellets and sitting next to them all fat digesting until they're ready to eat more, until the pellets are gone then they'll scour the area for allllllll the tiny leftover bits, and only then will they lazily make their way back to picking around the tank. They definitely never get tired of eating, but I do feed them less and at different times to ensure that they're enthusiastic housekeepers

 

Mine eat shrimp food and pellets.