feeding issue

[ty15906]

hi all, here is the problem, my 10g has silk plants(about 60% coverage), the fish hang out at the bottom mostly all the time. when i feed them they stay down there and only eat what they see fall, the rest gets cought in the plants where the leaves and stem meet. i understand tank maintainance as well as the next guy, but taking them out every 3 days to clean them off is getting old.

:help: Any thoughts?? :help:

 

[Ems]

They just sound scared to me.
Do you have to lift anything to feed them?

 

[Oddball~]

Firstly, most of the fish you have are schooling fish, but you have singles of them

In addition, half of them are bottom dwellers in the place...

Get 2 more corys, 1 more oto, 3 more tetras and 2 more rasboras

 

[Ems]

ah ha didnt see that.
oddball is right.

 

[ty15906]

Firstly, most of the fish you have are schooling fish, but you have singles of them

In addition, half of them are bottom dwellers in the place...

Get 2 more corys, 1 more oto, 3 more tetras and 2 more rasboras

that would be a little over stocked, correct?

 

[Ems]

You could look for some pygmy cories.
I'd say 2 more tetras.
I'm not familiar with the rasboras, but if theyre not aggressive at all then 2 more of them aswell.
Another oto would work also.
I'd look at pygmy cories instead though.
Bronze cories should be in groups, and you'd have to get rid of either the tetras or the rasboras if you wanted more bronze cories.

 

[Rosemary]

You might also be overfeeding. It seems to me that a hungry fish would pick a bit of food out of the silk plants.