Not sure what to feed my cory's

oodles · 01-02-2011, 12:46 PM

I have 3 peppered corys living with 8 neon tetras and 6 glofish. Due to the fact the neons and glofish don't like to eat food off the gravel, I'm sure my cory's are getting their nourishment, however, I'd really like to supplement their diet with a food that I know they will eat. I've been dropping in a 1/4 of a an algae wafer, but I don't think they're all that crazy about it. Any suggestions?

susankat · 01-02-2011, 12:49 PM

Feed them shrimp pellets or earthworm sticks. The also like bloodworms and such.

oodles · 01-02-2011, 01:14 PM

I have bloodworms but they float and the other fish have been eating them.

susankat · 01-02-2011, 01:17 PM

Are you adding them frozen? Mine sink when they are thawed out.

oodles · 01-02-2011, 01:26 PM

no, mine were freeze dried from hakkari.

NeonShark666 · 01-02-2011, 01:35 PM

They like any good quality pellet food like Top Fin Soft Sinking Pellets. They also go after sinking fresh food like blood worms or bits of fresh shrimp. Corys are very social so add a few more if you have room. If your tank is a 10G, you have no more room for new fish. Corys are a wonderful, long lived fish. Have fun with them!

susankat · 01-02-2011, 03:39 PM

You can also try frozen blood worms, I would imagine your other fish would like them better than the freeze dried ones.

Dean715 · 02-16-2011, 08:07 PM

I just got two Corys today and got some Hikari waffers for bottom feeders. Are these good for them? I do recall feeding shrimp pellets to Corys in the past.

automatic-hydromatic · 02-16-2011, 09:42 PM

the albinos I use to have never cared too much for sinking algae wafers...

they'd eat flakes that made it past the other fish and rested on the bottom, and that was they're normal diet

but yeah they'd go crazy over frozen bloodworms. it's funny to see a group of them swimming around, each of them with 1/2" of worm sticking out of their mouth, lol

freeze dried bloodwormds are useless with cories. they will not sink, and the cories will not swim to the top to get them

Dean715 · 02-22-2011, 11:16 AM

After some experimenting mine seem to like everything

. I have Hikari bottom feeder wafers for them which they like, frozen bloodworms, they seem to like these better than my Betta does. And I put in an algae wafer for my snails yesterday and the two cories got the lions share of that also. In past years ive fed frozen brine shrimp and shrimp pellets and I seem to remember cories liked them as well.

Subaru4wd · 05-10-2011, 07:30 PM

I have been feeding mine blackworms. My LFS told me about them when they sold me my Cory. They get caught in the current and most my fish can get to them, but i am sure some make it to the bottom and I hope my cory is finding them.

I only got one, then read about how social they are. Now I need to go find a couple more

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oodles Crazy as a loon Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 27 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 1 Times Said "Thanks" 6 Times Was Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	Not sure what to feed my cory's I have 3 peppered corys living with 8 neon tetras and 6 glofish. Due to the fact the neons and glofish don't like to eat food off the gravel, I'm sure my cory's are getting their nourishment, however, I'd really like to supplement their diet with a food that I know they will eat. I've been dropping in a 1/4 of a an algae wafer, but I don't think they're all that crazy about it. Any suggestions? __________________ Never under estimate the power of an empty fish tank

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