Hikari Algae Wafers left uneaten overnight

[Tempestuousfury]

I dropped in a 1/4 wafer into the tank right before turning of the ambient light. The tank has 6 pygmy corydoras, 2 kuhli loaches (trying to get more, I know, I know), and 4 otocinclus. As the main ingredients are perfectly fine for the non algae-eaters, I assumed this would be gone by morning. The wafer was still where I had dropped it, untouched and crumbled, this morning. The food is good until 01/2024, so I guess my questions are: should I simply feed this to the otos during the day? why would the bottom feeders fully ignore it?

 

[Byron]

I dropped in a 1/4 wafer into the tank right before turning of the ambient light. The tank has 6 pygmy corydoras, 2 kuhli loaches (trying to get more, I know, I know), and 4 otocinclus. As the main ingredients are perfectly fine for the non algae-eaters, I assumed this would be gone by morning. The wafer was still where I had dropped it, untouched and crumbled, this morning. The food is good until 01/2024, so I guess my questions are: should I simply feed this to the otos during the day? why would the bottom feeders fully ignore it?

Corydoras pygmaeus will not make much of algae-based wafers, which I assume these are. The kuhlii loaches, I am not sure, but their natural food is insect larvae, small worms and crustaceans, sifting through the substrate for these. Otocinclus will eat the algae wafers, but they have to be hungry enough to move down to the substrate and find them.

 

[Tempestuousfury]

Corydoras pygmaeus will not make much of algae-based wafers, which I assume these are. The kuhlii loaches, I am not sure, but their natural food is insect larvae, small worms and crustaceans, sifting through the substrate for these. Otocinclus will eat the algae wafers, but they have to be hungry enough to move down to the substrate and find them.

I can absolutely understand that; I assumed that the fish meal being the main ingredient would have made it edible enough. My yoyo loaches tend not to have a problem with them in the other tank; I assume they have a more varied palette...
Thanks!

 

[Sgooosh]

I can absolutely understand that; I assumed that the fish meal being the main ingredient would have made it edible enough. My yoyo loaches tend not to have a problem with them in the other tank; I assume they have a more varied palette...
Thanks!

that means you have good ones that have lots of algae in them
also how do you have so many messages but 0 reactions? that's very strange!

 

[Essjay]

@Sgooosh If you notice the joined date is 2003. Reactions were only brought in fairly recently so most of those posts would have been when there were no reactions.

 

[GaryE]

Back in 2003, if I saw a good post online all I could do was high five my fish.

 

[Sgooosh]

@Sgooosh If you notice the joined date is 2003. Reactions were only brought in fairly recently so most of those posts would have been when there were no reactions.

ohhh makes sense

 

[Tempestuousfury]

ohhh makes sense

Yup. I was close to 10k posts my senior year of high school (2005). The servers also changed or what have you, so the post counts are off as well. Coming back so many years later... I just got my first "liked" award today.

 

[connorlindeman]

Yup. I was close to 10k posts my senior year of high school (2005). The servers also changed or what have you, so the post counts are off as well. Coming back so many years later... I just got my first "liked" award today.

you just got a second lol