They are hungry little buggers! And have eaten everything I have offered. Which is wonderful. I did make some of Hans' mix for them, but only fed it one time today. I am hoping to get away from the beef. They really like the mixed stick from kensfish. I put them in my Pampered Chef chopper and chopped them smaller as I was afraid they would be too big for them to eat. Boy did they ever go after that. It has veggie, earthworm, spiro, and a couple other kinds of sticks in it. They also liked the bloodworms, but I figured that would be a given. The cories and BNs seem to like cleaning up too. So all seems to be going well. They do hide when I vac the tank, but are right back out within 5 minutes of stopping.
I do hope you guys don't mind me continuing to update this as I am way excited about these guys and my hubby doesn't quite understand my giddiness or my stress over doing this right.