I always do my best to put some food on the substrate form my corys but I have some pretty greedy fish that take a lot from the substrate. How much food do corys find by just scavenging all day long? How much food do they get from sucking on the plants also?
How much food in substrate for corys
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I feed my fish algae wafers every other day (flakes every day). I buy the larger wafers (the size of a quarter almost) and break them in half... I put 4 whole wafers in the tank. My cories, pleco and rainbow shark all munch on them evenly. The cories also get a few flakes that make it to the bottom. And they eat the cucumber once in a blue moon. They're growing just fine.
What do you feed them? I'm assuming you feed them wafers, since those sink... maybe drop one in broken up a bit at night before going to bed. I've never seen my cories nibbling at the plants (other than the java moss).
Cories are called scavengers for a reason!
So I'd say unless you notice that they're not growing at all, or that they look sickly, they're holding their own when the food hits the water!
~Tara
What do you feed them? I'm assuming you feed them wafers, since those sink... maybe drop one in broken up a bit at night before going to bed. I've never seen my cories nibbling at the plants (other than the java moss).
Cories are called scavengers for a reason!
So I'd say unless you notice that they're not growing at all, or that they look sickly, they're holding their own when the food hits the water!~Tara
That depends on what and how much you feed. You might want to consider devising 'drop zones' that the cories become accustomed to, i.e behind a couple plants, in a cave....and simoultaneously feed the fish at the surface. This should increase the chances of everybody getting something. You can use tubing to 'roll' the pellets down to the bottom of the tank more precisely.
I can't give you an exact answer to that question because there are too many unanswerd questions for me.
Are you dropping in sinking pellets?
What kind are fish are with them? Some fish will feed off the bottom better than others. Some fish eat quickly but will still hit food just to spit it out. How much food is getting to the bottom? Do you feed the other fish first and then drop something in for the corys?
Some seem to like plants more than others. I put spinach and collard greens in my 125 and 40. The pandas in my 125 and the bronze in the 40 ignore it. The others in my 40 won't even let the sevrum drive them away from it. Take a look at my avatar.
Are you dropping in sinking pellets?
What kind are fish are with them? Some fish will feed off the bottom better than others. Some fish eat quickly but will still hit food just to spit it out. How much food is getting to the bottom? Do you feed the other fish first and then drop something in for the corys?
Some seem to like plants more than others. I put spinach and collard greens in my 125 and 40. The pandas in my 125 and the bronze in the 40 ignore it. The others in my 40 won't even let the sevrum drive them away from it. Take a look at my avatar.
2 acaras, some tetras and 3 shrimp also eat from the bottom in my aquarium.
I feed my own mix of freezed food and flakes and I always make sure that it gets to the bottom and the corys do eat. I am just wondering how much food is naturally produced in an aquarium in the substrate and plants for scavengers like corys.
I feed my own mix of freezed food and flakes and I always make sure that it gets to the bottom and the corys do eat. I am just wondering how much food is naturally produced in an aquarium in the substrate and plants for scavengers like corys.
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To my knowledge there isn't any food "naturally produced in an aquarium in the substrate" for fish.
Cories must be fed. They will not find food by scavenging in the substrate (unless they are getting food that you drop in)...a lot of people think that they are scavengers so they will just survive by scavening - and that isn't the case, because as longtime mentioned, there isn't any food that just appears in the substrate...only the food you put in there.
Feed your other fish first to get them full. Throw cory food in at night right before lights out. Whenever you feed yummy snacks like frozen bloodworms, just throw in enough so that you see a fair amount falling to the ground.
Feed your other fish first to get them full. Throw cory food in at night right before lights out. Whenever you feed yummy snacks like frozen bloodworms, just throw in enough so that you see a fair amount falling to the ground.
Originally posted by dwayne
Cories are called scavengers for a reason!
~Tara
Let me clarify what I posted yesterday... I did not mean to imply that the cories find something on the bottom to eat besides food... I simply meant that they find tiny bits of flakes or pellets that are left behind that other fish do not pick up on
~Tara