Anyone use a feeding dish for their corys?

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I was thinking about using an "new" ashtray or something to use as a dish to put the food on. Something that is shallow but with a big lip to keep stuff inside. my gravel while not terribly large still ends up getting a lot of debris in it when my corys are feeding.

Anyone try this or use something similar?
 
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I use a piece of slate sometimes. Like when they're fry/juvies. Works really well, even if i'm feeding flakes I can still use the slate, I just drop some in with a baster. But if you leave your filter on it'll just blow all the food everywhere anyway. So keep that in mind. I use fluval canisters and I jus turn the current down until they're done eating. Depending on how many cories you have you might want something bigger than an ashtray
 
i havent for cories, but for a pleco sort of. i had a really picky pleco that wouldnt eat until i painted chunks of slate with a mixture of egg white and crushed fish food. then, to wean him onto regular food after he was eating off the rocks regularly, i would leave the slate in and put the food on top of the slate. worked like a champ.

for what its worth, cories seem to enjoy foraging. i wouldnt put all their food in one spot for them. but on the other hand, keeping the food contained would make clean up easier.
 
Not a bad idea...I put my slate where I feed my synos so they could find their food easier without it falling into the gravel. They are also relatively large compared to most of the food I give them so they have to eat more smaller pieces.
 
Iv been feeding mine tropical tablets, algae chip, shrimp pellets, blood worms, brine shrimp.

Most of those work fine what i am trying to use also is tropical granules, mainly the no carb ones from kensfish, they are pretty small but sink. Right now i am using a tetra based one and the problem is a lot of them get into the rocks as they are pretty small.
 
I put in a little glass bowl from time to time with a couple algae wafers inside. It gives the cories a chance to chow down before the snails move in. Sometimes there will be 5 or 6 of them in at one time. Fun to watch.
Sometimes the snails will find their way in the bowl in large numbers. Then I take the bowl out and get rid of a bunch of them in one fell swoop.
 
I have faily small "gravel" because of plants, so I just drop food into tank for my corys.

Years ago when I had LOTS of corys, I had this Japanese sause dish that I "sank" into the gravel to feed tubiflex worms so that the worms would not "excape" into the gravel.
 
lol.....

I just dump the food in and let them find it.......works for mother nature, gotta work for me too.
 
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