How Often Should I Feed Algae Eating Guppies?

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Hi everyone,

I have two guppies (and three pygmy cories) and a tank that has a bad algae problem. The algae literally popped up the day after I put live plants in. I don't want to move my tank to a place with less light, so I'm wipping off most of the the algae once a week. The deal is, I can tell my guppies are eating it ALL the time as they have green poo! Regardless of how much I clean, there will be some for them to nibble.

With that in mind, how often should I be feeding them and what should I feed them? Do they just need protein supplementation (like blood worms 2X per week) and would algae be fine the rest of the time?
 
If your sure they are eating enough algae that they are pooing out green very often, bloodworms 2x a week would be fine for ages IMO. Though I'd really want to give them flakes at least once a week since flakes are a balanced diet, with all the right vitamins and what-not.

Make sure the corys are getting enough though, they wont be eating nearly as much algae. Best thing to do would be to feed the corys sinking pellts every second day. The guppies will no-doubt pick at them too anyway.
 
If your sure they are eating enough algae that they are pooing out green very often, bloodworms 2x a week would be fine for ages IMO. Though I'd really want to give them flakes at least once a week since flakes are a balanced diet, with all the right vitamins and what-not.

Make sure the corys are getting enough though, they wont be eating nearly as much algae. Best thing to do would be to feed the corys sinking pellts every second day. The guppies will no-doubt pick at them too anyway.
Thanks. The guppies are being given flake foods. . .I was cutting back on how much they got.

So, corys do need sinking pelettes? Do I scoop out what they don't eat withing a specific time period?
 
Corys are fine on flakes as long as they are getting them, sinking pellets are just more convenient for them, and it means they get more food since other fish like guppies aren't as good at eating the sinking pellets.

I'd go with putting 1-2 small pellets in for every cory, and just leave them in until they are eaten. If it takes a whole day, then you can remove them and feed less next time. It depends on what pellet you go for, different brands take longer to break up in the water and have different sizes.

This is my favourite cory food: http://www.aquaessentials.co.uk/index.php?...roducts_id=2127

I've had the Hikari stuff once before and that seemed great too, I just prefer smaller pellets.

http://www.aquaessentials.co.uk/index.php?...roducts_id=1660
 

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