Food For Cories

[Donkster]

I've a new tank with some mollies and an albino corry (though i intend to add another or two in a few weeks). I've been using Tetra flakes to feed them but the mollies seem to gobble up most of the flakes leaving the corry with far less food once it sunk to the bottom. What are people using to feed their cories with .......?

 

[Bex]

My cory's absolutely love Tetra Prima. It's a sinking food and they go mad for it. The mollies will eat it but they will be more interested in the flake food first so the cories will get plenty.

They are little orange sinking things - in fact all my fish love them.

Any sinking food is ok for cory's I think, mine just seem to love this stuff - even over wafers.

EDIT: you really should get at least 2 more cory's as they prefer to be in groups and will be mich happier!

 

[AlexAndCarmen]

Same as Bex, mine love Tetra Prima. I also feed JMC catfish pellets. I feed my plecos frozen shrimp and catfish tabs, and all my cories take bites of these too. They love it. As well as frozen brine shrimp and frozen blood worm. All sinking foods are good for cories.

 

[Sp00ky]

my corys get bloodworm twice aday and if i am in a rush and cant wait for it to thaw, then they get pellets as well. Either JMC of KB

 

[Labyrinth]

I use sinking pellets to feed mine, but they are always searching for flakes that the rest missed
Bloodworm also sinks pretty fast once thawed and they get their fair share of them

 

[Inchworm]

I feed my corys Ocean Nutrition's Brine Shrimp Plus flake food, which has a 54.8% crude protein content, Hikari sinking wafers, and sometimes Wardley's Spirulina discs. They also get some meaty food daily with the breeders usually getting live blackworms and the others frozen bloodworms. Sometimes I give then freeze dried tubifex worms which are also very nutritious.

If you need to get more flakes down to the bottom, just take some between your fingers, put your hand into the tank, and flick them downward instead of sprinkling them on the surface.

While Wardley's Shrimp Pellets used to have a higher protein content and provide good nutrition for the corys, they changed their recipe and now they contain too much filler and too little protein. Uneaten bits tend to sink into the gravel and foul the water. I no longer use them or recommend them to others.

 

[Barracuda518]

I feed my corys Ocean Nutrition's Brine Shrimp Plus flake food, which has a 54.8% crude protein content, Hikari sinking wafers, and sometimes Wardley's Spirulina discs. They also get some meaty food daily with the breeders usually getting live blackworms and the others frozen bloodworms. Sometimes I give then freeze dried tubifex worms which are also very nutritious.

I bought some of that Ocean Nutrition's Brine Shrimp Plus flake food yesterday with intentions on feeding it to my loaches. I think I will try to feed it to my cories too. I have been feeding them the Ocean Nutrition's Tropical Community flake food ever since you mentioned it before and it works great.

I have also been feeding mine frozen bloodworms and tubifex, sinking wafers, and spriulla disks. I feed them Hikari algae wafers all the time, they really like those too. I cant find live worms around here to feed them. I need to try and raise my own.

EDIT: Spelling

 

[Captain Retardo]

Mine abosolutely love Omega 1 Shrimp Pellets, I also feed them Frozen Bloodworm, and Sometimes I add a little extra flake food so that some will sink to the bottom, which my cories will eat.

 

[Donkster]

Well I bought some tetra prima from my lfs to try so fingers crossed. I've got about another 10 days before I can add another couple of fish so it'll be cories to keep him company.