Yes he would just be scavenging. Farmed Corydoras, especially the popular ones like aeneus, sterbai, paleatus and their albino varations, are more often as not of a very poor quality. Like for example dwarf gourami's and many other popular fish, they are just a shadow of what they once were.
65 gallon LJ project
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I visited the LFS today where I purchased my rainbowfish a few weeks ago. They still have some specimens in stock, but I must say that the difference with mine is astonishing, I had no opportunity to take a photo in the store, and it wouldn't have been correct to do it either, but I can describe absolutely pale rainbowfish, with pale orange tails and lines faint horizontals. It made me sad to see these fish there, now I will leave a couple of photos of my specimens, I regret the bad pictures but these guys are very fast. Without a doubt, what I want to show is the IMPORTANT that is the food and the good quality of water for our fish, look at these colors man, I couldn't capture the best image, but you have the idea 
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I don't think so, when I went for mine I bought the smallest fish, so there are many rainbowfishes bigger than mine, and they are as pale like a zombie.Lalo J. ,
I don't mean to contradict you but could it just be that they are not at maturity to be showing full color?
That's not hard to explain LJ..... you have black gravel, better lighting, better care, less crowding whereas the store likely hasn't, there is a lot of traffic, and those fish might have just been in, too...
My week has not started well at all, don't comment here, but 2 weeks ago I bought a beautiful black female scalare angelfish. However when I acclimatized it I realized I had a bit of velvet and it would not enter my tank in any way, so I put it in the observation tank that I have for somewhat delicate fish, I gave it a bath with cupramine and I entered it into the tank confident that the feeding that I give to all my fish would simply make her eliminate the disease by herself, it was not like that and a couple of days ago I began to add cupramine in the tank, I followed the instructions and today I just see a fish completely deteriorated by copper, she is breathing hard, she cannot swim and she is simply dragged by the flow of water, I have made a water change of 75% and I have increased oxygenation hoping this will help. I took this female because it is black, I have rarely seen such an angelfish, a size of approximately 5.5 ". This problem is linked to my gold striped clownfish (Premnas biaculeatus), who is already 21 days with Cupramine in a hospital tank, fighting velvet too, and while he eats and looks healthy, velvet has only disappeared by about 80%, he refuses to disappear entirely. On a separate note, I can't find my beloved blue damsel (Chrysiptera cyanea), I'm afraid she has passed away, I can't find her body but I know she doesn't have good company, because my flame angel (Centropyge loriculus) is a beautiful fish but it is an unpleasant, very territorial and aggressive guy. Either way, I have 3 problems now and hope that at least one ends well.
Here you can see a video of the tank, this gives you an idea of the movement that is here. However, the colors of the fish are even more vivid and bright in person, the video does not show it very realistic but at least you have an idea
.Good and bad news, my beautiful female black scalare passed away a couple of days ago, my friends from the LFS have not gotten fish with the importers, maybe next week. My gold striped clownfish has finished her 21 day cupramine treatment, previously it had been 14 days but the velvet reappeared and I decided that 21 days would be more appropriate, now she looks better and I am removing the cupramine with activated carbon. My blue damsel reappeared 2 days ago in the afternoon, but she hides for long periods since I suppose my angelfish is the king of the tank and it is preferable to avoid it as long as possible.
