View Full Version : What do YOUR cories love and like the most??? (Questions)
Mantis_22
04-30-2003, 7:02 PM
I have had 2 generations of cories and just wondered what does your cories that you keep love the most.
I feed my cories 3 pieces of Wardly Shrimp Pellets Daily. I have three aenus cories. They also scavenge the bottom for lost food.
What do yours like to eat and does your food you give get messy?
The gravel I use in my tank is kinda large for my cories, actually for any fish other than goldfish. The cories seem to scan around the larger pieces though. One day I will change substrates...
What type of substrate do you use and what size??
My cories mainly eat there given food when lights are "out". I barely keep the light on my tank on due to them not liking it.
How long do you keep your Corys tank light on?
Do you provide caves or such for your cories which are practically pitch dark or do you just run plants/rock decorations to cover under during light hours?
What type of cories do you have?
And what are your water stats for keeping these puppys happy :D
My three cories love the shrimp pellets. They also love it when I crush small snails and let them sink to the bottom.
Mine don't seem to mind the light at all, though I have plenty of floating plants. I have provided them with little flower pots for caves, but thy just seem too busy scouring everywhere for food to bother with them.
I have 1 bronze, 1 albino and 1 peppered all of whom get along well and quite often have little naps together.
brianfl
04-30-2003, 8:45 PM
Mine like catfish pellets and really like tubifex worms.
sChArF
04-30-2003, 9:00 PM
Mine like SERA's Viformo Tablet Food. i just bought it the other week. Its protein is 46.5% so I hope it will bring out the color and patterns in my corys.
This is what i have
6 Corydoras sterbai
6 Corydoras trilineatus
6 Corydoras panda
4 Corydoras delphax
2 Corydoras aeneus
5 Salt & Pepper Corys
kveeti
04-30-2003, 10:29 PM
All my fish, including the corys, are fed at approx 11:00 every morning. My cories like the shrimp pellets best. I feed them those mostly but also a couple other sinking "staple food" tablets for variety. They will also munch on the algae eater's algae tablet. But that's ok because he eats their food, too. It's share and share alike.
My lights are on 10 hours a day, they don't seem to mind. I have pots and some thick plants but the aeneus corys are always out in the open. I find my peppered corys do more hiding. In another tank I have 2 albino aeneus and they are even more active, they seem to do a lot more high swimming than sticking to the bottom.
I love to watch them, they remind me of circus clowns. What's cute is at feeding time the peppered corys don't congregate in the feeding corner with the others as much.... instead they swim to the top and hover upside-down at the water surface and eat the floating food. It's funny.
My oldest cory I've had for almost 8 years. His partner died in February and it was sad, but he now has the "kids" following him around.
My substrate is very fine gravel. My tanks are kept at 79F.
Javelin
05-02-2003, 10:03 AM
I have 2 Leopard cories, a Skunk, a Panda, a Peru Orange Stripe, and something that looks like a Panda, but has a line running down the center of its back connecting the black dorsal fin to the spot near the tail. I also have 3 babies that are a mix between the Panda and the Skunk.
I'm really not sure what they prefer for food. They never really seem to come out for any of the sinking carnivore pellets, algae wafers, or frozen brine shrimp, yet they are all pretty fat so they must be eating something. One thing they WILL come out for is stirred up gravel.:) They absolutely love to root around in spots that I've disturbed while trimming or removing plants.
About 3/4's of the bottom of my tank is covered in a thick coat of Dwarf Sags, with the left side kept bare and shaded by a huge sword. My cories seem to stay hidden most of the time in the Sags. The babies are always out playing together though.
My lights (110 watts on a 29 gallon) are on for 12 hours a day. A lot of people have said that is way too much light, especially for not having CO2, but I've had it like that for over a year without problems. I haven't even had to scrape the glass since last summer. The only algae in the tank is BBA on the driftwood that was there before I added the lights. It has never spread to the plants, glass, or gravel.
TwoTankAmin
05-02-2003, 2:09 PM
1o sterbais, 15 pandas, 11 similis and 2 paleatus- they all love love love blood worms- frozen.
That's funny, kveeti, that your peppered cory likes to eat from the surface. Of all three of my cories only the peppered one does that. It is funny to watch him swimming upside down at teh surface munching on flakes.
ChilDawg
05-10-2003, 9:54 PM
Mine like Wardley's Shrimp Pellets, as well as the Tetra Catfish tabs...I think that they ate some Betta food, too, but I haven't been testing that theory for fear of polluting my tank.
ChilDawg
05-10-2003, 9:55 PM
I guess that I should mention my Cory species: two C. aeneus var. Albino, one C. julii, and one C. ambiacus.
Tetratastic
05-20-2003, 5:13 AM
My cories love sinking algae tablets I feed them at lights out... can't get enough of them!
Tetratastic
05-20-2003, 5:19 AM
Oh, and I have bronze cories (all different varieties), delphax (sp?), and threeline cories :)
Mantis_22
05-20-2003, 6:17 AM
i guess i'll stick with the shrimp pellets and Herbavore tablets
ChilDawg
05-20-2003, 7:19 AM
I'm not sure that Herbivore tabs are the best, unless you are already feeding the shrimp ones at the same time...the Tetra Bottom-feeder tabs are a little different, and are formulated to feed fish such as Cories.
Clownloach458
05-28-2003, 8:35 PM
My cories will scramble for the shrimp pellets(wardley ;)) if my clowns are asleep. i usually feed those guys while clowns are asleep. or else. the clonw will guard those pellets with life at stake.lol.
ChilDawg
05-28-2003, 8:37 PM
Word to the Wardley's Shrimp Pellets...mine went crazy when those dropped magically into the tank this morning. (They still haven't figured out that the food-bringer is the guy who continually watches them!)
Anaxus
05-28-2003, 8:55 PM
My peppared cories eat wardly shrimp pellets, algae tablets before my pleco gets to them, and zuccini. Thats all the foods I have tried. They have never gone to the top of the tank. I have a 37 gallon high and some times they try and make it but only get half way and give up
Ditto for me, Childawg. My cories are just about the only fish in my tank that do not beg for food each time I walk near.
Do you guys feed your cories after lights out or during the day when you feed the rest of the fish?
ChilDawg
05-28-2003, 8:58 PM
Well, I've always fed them when I turn on the light in the morning, and sometimes in the early evening before I turn out the lights...I think that I'd been overfeeding a little during the life of the tank. Since I have no other tank occupants besides the Cories and the Attack Oto, nobody's begging for food anymore :( (We'll change that this summer!)
somefinnfishy
06-02-2003, 9:41 AM
I just bought my first corys a few months ago.I have a school of 5 albino aeneus in my planted 65g
And 6 barbatus corys :cool: I got last week my buddy has fry out of the same tank at work.
Mantis_22
06-02-2003, 10:51 AM
I have a Clown loach/Cory tank now and I have been sticking strictly to 2 wardley shrimp tablets a day for the cories along with 1 Tetra Bottom Feeder Herbavore Tablets which the clowns usually go for. Am I underfeeding or is this just right? Compare your daily feedings with mine...
I forgot to add
2 clown loaches
5 aenus cories
somefinnfishy
06-02-2003, 12:17 PM
I dont feed any thing for them the hundreds of live blackworms sticking out of the gravel all day do the trick I way over feed my tanks so theres plenty to scavenge in all my tanks.
Deltaway
05-22-2005, 6:23 PM
Do they like Spirulina Flakes? It would be good to get some vegetarian in the other fishes' diet as well...
I try to give my guys some variety so I alternate between Nutrafin sinking tablets, Wardley's shrimp pellets, freeze dried tubifex (not as often), freeze dried bloodworms (can't get these to sink though), Hikari algae wafers and Tetramin staple flakes. My 6 corydoras aeneus (still the only fish in the tank) eat everything with great enthusiasm and then spend time after feeding poking around the sand and checking *everything* in the tank for something to eat. Mine are a bit shy during the day but seen to get a bit more active after lights out. Early in the day though they seem to like just parking in a big group and hanging out.
reiverix
05-23-2005, 11:16 AM
My peppered corys eat pretty much anything that goes in the tank. They do especially like shrimp pellets, frozen blood worms and crushed snails. They also come to the surface for flake food and scoot around the sides of the tank upside down. Pure comedy.
They also come to the surface for flake food and scoot around the sides of the tank upside down. Pure comedy.
One of mine has figure out this trick. I rely on him to get anything that does not sink. So far I have not tried to put food that does not sink in thetank on purpose. With that said, I wonder what would happen if I used a feeding ring to put some food in a specific spot if any of them would catch on. Hmm, I feel an experiment coming on.