Feeding Corys

Hi Michael!

I have a peppered cory ( his mate died recently) and feed him on wafers occasionally but to be honest I find them a pain in the bum!!! I tend to break them up and put a small piece in but soak it first so it is soft.

I tend to use sinking pellets, which I drop into the most frequented areas whilst the other fish are busy with their flake.

The other thing I find really good for them is frozen bloodworm. Thawed in a bit of tank water and then sucked into a syringe and deposited right in front of the corys whilst simultaneously feeding the other fish at the other end of the tank!! This gives them a chance to eat it before the other fish muscle in!!!

Hope this helps!!

FC76

I've found that Hikari's mini algae wafers work well.  The tetras watch it fall but the cories get almost exclusive access to eating them, usually with 3 munching away on one at the same time.  2 at the one time are usually enough and are fully consumed within an hour.  I've just bought a carnivore version but they don't seem so keen on it (yet).

The other technique which I've found that works is to feed them at a time of day when the other fish are less alert and less hungry - and so much of it falls.  (In my case, the tetras are not as alert/hungry first thing in the morning.)

Having the food chopped into various sizes (really only possible to do with flakes) also helps- the bigger/higher fish tend to go for the larger pieces whereas the very fine pieces tend to get missed, and therefore found later by the cories.

Another suggestion by someone else was to put the food in the filter flow so that it disperses - the higher fish wouldn't be able to get it all before it fell.

Hope these are useful suggestions, in addition to those by others above.

I have peppered cories (6) and their main food is AquaCare tropical pellets.  They sink pretty quickly and I always feed in the same spot.  One of my platies does try to eat them but only once they have finished their flake food - I do tend to feed all the fish at the same time.  For treats they get live food normally blood worms or daphnia which they really seem to enjoy.

Thanks everyone for the advice. I tried breaking the wafers up yesterday but they were still not small enough for them to eat. I would have to crush them in order to get them any smaller.

I like the idea of using some form of pipe guide food to the bottom. At the minute, the filter makes it difficult to target feed anywhere with the pellets. Assuming I can get some food to the bottom, the Corys should get enough.