Finally found food for my corys!

[wlepse]

I had picked up sinking wafers for corys and while they do like them so do the mollys and platys and they are far more aggressive eaters than the corys. I was trying to drop them in after the lights went out but that didn't seem to help. Same thing with all the other sinking food I tried. Today after doing my weekly maintenance I decided to try tubifex worms as a treat for the platys and mollys. Turned out they weren't that interested so I repositioned it down low on the glass and the corys went crazy.thumbs2: So now I have a good treat for them but was wondering if anyone else was feeding these to their corys and if so how do you position them for feeding? My tank is pretty deep so reaching in to the bottom can be a difficult task.

[Cliff]

Have you tried large sinking shrimp pellets.

I don't know much about corys, but a friend of my feeds this to her corys and they go nuts over them. The large pellets are too big and hard for her mollys and angles so they leave them alone.

[rhonin]

My wife has a 30g cherry/ghost/blue shrimp tank (planted) in which we have three panda and one neon cory.

As a suppliment she uses Hikari Shrimp Cuisine, crushing some of the small pellets so the little guys can handle it.

Found that the corys really like the bigger pellets that sink. They get these along with a small amount of garlic flake (which the juvenile shrimp seem to like also!)

Now as long as the mollies don't go for it....

[troy]

My pygmy corys can eat bloodworms longer them. I haven't fed them those for a while. I try to give them some vegetables once a week.

[wlepse]

I have tried a few sinking pellets and some were quite a bit bigger than the mollys or plats can eat but they hover and peck over it until it is soft enough to eat. Once it softens it is quickly gone. The corys try to push in and do get some but I was always concerned if it was enough.

[WhiteDevil]

My 3 dozen or so eat frozen hikari or fish king bloodworms and beefheart.

for dry food its hikari sinking algae wafers and ken's catfish pellets.

[VoidParadigm]

My cories will only eat hard sinking pellets designed for pond Koi/Carp use.

[lahlumdi]

Mine eat flakes, crab meat sinking granuals, and best of all, wafers.

Yes, my Platy like them too. They can be rather agressive. So I put them in after lights out for alittle while when the whole tank is calmed down.

I once had a dwarf gourami who was so agressive to go after the wafer, it hurt it's eye in the fight for the wafer. Became blind in that eye.

Oh yes they LOVE bloodworms. They also like shrimp brine.

I like giving them variety.

[Lady Hobbs]

My corys are probably not getting all they should to eat. I tried the shrimp pellets and got such an explosion of snails, I gave up on them. I need to find something else to fed them myself.

[wlepse]

Well while tubifex may not be a balanced diet at least I know they are getting something, so hopefully if they get a little of the sinking wafers and pellets they will be good. Starting to wonder if I can attach the block to an aquascaping tool and drop it in that way, may give that a shot tonight.