Platys/Swords eating Corys food...Help !

Hello everyone,

I am new here and hope someone can help. I am not new to aquariums but haven't had one for several years and feel like a bit of an "antique". (They didn't have sinking pellets when I had an aquarium 25 years ago - no kidding !)

I have a new 32 gallon aquarium stocked with 4 swords, 4 platys and 3 Corys. My problem is feeding them. The sinking pellets are loved by ALL in the tank. I feed them at the same time and the platys/swords quickly eat the floating flakes and then make their way to the bottom to push away the Corys and eat the pellets.

I have read that feeding the Corys in the dark helps. Tried that last night. When I dropped the pellets in ( one pellet "cut" in 3) I heard a "splash" which I thought was the swords/platys going after the pellets.

Any advice is welcome......grayson

Thanks archangel. I hate to overfeed but hate to starve the Corys too.

Part of the problem is that the sinking pellets take a while to dissolve so they are in the water longer than the flakes. One platy was so fat (male - so pregancy wasn't an option) that I thought he might have dropsy. I noticed that after a few hours he was considerably smaller in the belly and knew it was food - not dropsy. He has also remained extremely heathly for a month and there is no evidence of Ich or fin rot etc. Anyway....I'm rambling.

Thanks again for the help....grayson