hi all. need your help please. how do i get food to my corys? i have 6 julli corys at mo, in with torpedo barbs rummy nose tetras and a few danios. im putting pellets in for the corys but the others are getting them. i did manage to keep the others occupied at one end of the tank, while i put pellets in at the other end but the corys could not see them and after a few mins the others sniffed them out and ate them. worried they will starve. any suggestions?

Hello again.
When you say 'pellets' are you meaning the JMC Catfish pellets?
I personally think these are too protein-rich for Corys and cause the fish to bloat out quite alarmingly, I long-since stopped feeding them to my Corys - although I still feed them to my Dwarf Snakeheads, so they still serve a purpose here.

Two things, one - my suggestion would be to use Tetra TabiMin, it will be a better bet for your Corys to get their share of the food given as, being quite densely made they sit on the bottom of the tank gradually dissolving, the 'more active' fish generally tire of them after a while, leaving opportunities for the Corys to eat away and...two, as Corys are both diurnal (day time) and nocturnal (night time) feeders you could introduce food after 'lights out' to ensure they are getting some food when the daytime feeders don't get the chance to eat as eagerly - they don't see the food as well in the dark...but, of course you'll not see them eating - but you will have the satisfaction of knowing they are!

John

Just to add what John has said,
if you crush up a small bit of whatever your feeding them, mix it with a some tank water, feed the rest of the fish as normal and as their feeding throw in the mixture in.

It will be to small for the rest to be bothered with but the corys will happily root through the substrate for tiny particles.

Works for me.



Mark

thanks for your advice. im using the king british pellets at the mo. will check out those tetra ones.

JohnH wrote:
Hello again.
When you say 'pellets' are you meaning the JMC Catfish pellets?
I personally think these are too protein-rich for Corys and cause the fish to bloat out quite alarmingly, I long-since stopped feeding them to my Corys

John


I bought these from my lfs and have noticed in the past few weeks that my Plec has seemed to have grown alot in a short time. He's a hungry little feckar and is out looking for food alot, he wolfs down the JMC pellets.

Think I might start giving him smaller amounts

another way to stop the others eating the food on the way down is to use a tube to guide the food safely to the bottom { feed the food into the tube so it floats down inside it - an uplift tube is perfect for this as you can see when it hits bottom} that way it wont be intercepted by other fish its a great way to target feed your fish.
Seamus