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03-07-2008, 04:37 PM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Houston, TX
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|  Cory food...(?) ok, so I got my first Cories ever yesterday... Pygmy Cories. They're too cool! I have them in QT in a 5 gallon right now... I threw in half an algae water last night, and a couple of them seemed to go for it... for a bit... When I woke up this morning, just about all of it was still there... Whenever I threw in a wafer for my oto and 3 guppies, they'd eat that wafer, never a trace of it.... I use Hikari sinking algae wafers, which are meant for bottom feeders... Is there anything else the Cories will eat? They eat zuccinni, right? But what else could I try to feed them? I'm going to drop by PetCo this afternoon after work, since im near one and see if I can find something else... suggestions? Should I just not try feeding them anything else till they eat the wafer?
__________________ 29 gallon - still sitting in the car 20 gallon - growing HC, starting to cycle soon 15 gallon - Betta (f), Dwarf Gourami (f), 10 Neon Tetra, Mystery Snail, Ramshorn Snail 10 gallon - 2 Peppered Cory, 3 Pygmy Cory, Ghost & Cherry Shrimp 05 gallon - growing out some java moss, and future home of female betta in 15 gallon (she's getting bullied by DG) |
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03-07-2008, 05:18 PM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: 34:09:39N, 118:08:19W
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| Hey, emmanuelchavez, this is what I feed my emerald catfish (no, they're not true corydoras but are often lumped in with them and, I presume, behave much like them): Hikari sinking wafers and blackworms. They're slow to get to the food, but they do (well, half the blackworms typically dive into the substrate before the catfish can find them  ). |
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03-07-2008, 05:37 PM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Houston, TX
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| Those are exactly what I feed them. I don't have blackworms though. My little guys seem to swim pretty fast, especially when the dogs come running into the room making lots of noise. lol.
__________________ 29 gallon - still sitting in the car 20 gallon - growing HC, starting to cycle soon 15 gallon - Betta (f), Dwarf Gourami (f), 10 Neon Tetra, Mystery Snail, Ramshorn Snail 10 gallon - 2 Peppered Cory, 3 Pygmy Cory, Ghost & Cherry Shrimp 05 gallon - growing out some java moss, and future home of female betta in 15 gallon (she's getting bullied by DG) |
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03-07-2008, 05:43 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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| I found out that mine like zucinni(sp?). try brine shrimp too
__________________ 75G-4 silver dollars, 1 angel,2 BN plecos, 1 RL pleco ,2 golden opaline gouramis,4 doradids,Male nicarguensis cichlid, 1 golden wonder killie 55G-Angel pair, 3 corys, 4 harlequin rasboras, 3 pristella tetras 30G-Angel pair 30G-1 angel, 1 female krib 30gal- 2 female bettas, 4 rummy-nose tetras 20G-1 angel(grow-out tank) |
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03-07-2008, 07:40 PM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Jan 2008
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| mine like sinking shrimp pellets as well as algae wafers...
__________________ 10 gallon: Fish - 3 female Bettas, 4 male feeder guppies, 4 pygmy corys, 3 ottos, 2 algae eating shrimp and some pond snails Plants: java ferns, anubias nana on driftwood, anubias congensis, anubias caladifolia, crypt spiralis, crypt wendtii and water lettuce |
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03-07-2008, 08:02 PM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: Feb 2008
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| mine love sinking shrimp pellets also it could have been sinceyou just bought them that they werent hungry.
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03-07-2008, 08:06 PM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Houston, TX
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| It looks like they ate the rest of the algae wafer, like they had much of a choice huh? lol. I only have a .7 oz bag of algae wafers, which I got when I got my Oto, so I'm going to get some more this weekend, and some sinking shrimp pellets. I gotta remember to buy zuccinni too.... I'll probably try some adult brine shrimp when I get back from spring break. Could I get away with leaving a big piece of zuccinni in the 5 gallon for the pygmies while I'm away for spring break? I'm going to be away for 9 days... My dad's already going to be feeding both my bettas, and I've got "vacation" food for the other 2 tanks... I may just have him feed them an algae wafer every other day... Thanks for ya'lls feedback!
__________________ 29 gallon - still sitting in the car 20 gallon - growing HC, starting to cycle soon 15 gallon - Betta (f), Dwarf Gourami (f), 10 Neon Tetra, Mystery Snail, Ramshorn Snail 10 gallon - 2 Peppered Cory, 3 Pygmy Cory, Ghost & Cherry Shrimp 05 gallon - growing out some java moss, and future home of female betta in 15 gallon (she's getting bullied by DG) |
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03-07-2008, 08:08 PM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Houston, TX
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03-07-2008, 08:24 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Arizona
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| I just "over feed" my fish so some flakes get to the bottom. The cories love the flakes. I've never fed them anything else. They also like to "chew" (?) on the betta bites...for some reason all my fish love the betta bites...?
__________________ -Kissyboots/Kissy/KB  55g Under construction 20g 7 Swordtails - Neo (m), Starlet (f), Smrt (f), Mini1-4 (f) 4 Peppered Cories - Wasabi (m), Hobbes (f), Mini 1 (m), Mini 2 (f) 2 Otos - Gaby (?), Sonja (?) 6.6g Under construction 5g 1 Dwarf Puffer - Weebo (f) |
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04-05-2008, 09:55 PM
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| Medium Fish  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: North Lousiana
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| I use Tetramin variety wafers. They love them. I also feed all my fish TetraColor granules. They sink to the bottom fast and the cories love them. One of the two will eat shrimp pellets. Of course they love the flakes that fall to the bottom as well. Both of mine seem to ignore zucchini.
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