Hello -
My juvenile cories will not eat. The tank was in a fishless cycle that I did stop early (70 days, with several weeks of double-0s at the 16 hour mark but not at the 12 hour mark) but on the 4th day with 6 cory sterbai fish in, I am showing double-0s on ammonia and nitrite and 20-40 ppm nitrate (can’t much tell the diff in color and my tap water comes with 10-20 or more)
I have tried to feed them: Omega One Shrimp Pellets, Omega One Sinking Tropical Pellets, Omega One Veggie Wafers, and Hikari Sinking Algae Wafers.
The first night in (Saturday) I did not feed them, and I fed them the shrimp and tropical pellets (a little of each to see which they would like better) Sunday night, and last night the wafers. They snuffled all the sand around (very cool how they dimple nearly every surface of substrate overnight) and the filter flow caused all of the food on the first night to gather in one spot so they clearly must have kept it all moving around quite a bit as otherwise it wouldn’t have collected so fast. The algae wafers they seemed to peck at a little bit but then left alone and in the morning, I guess the wafers softened up sufficiently that either the tank currents or the fish broke them apart so there was basically algae particles spread out over a significant area. That was a total of 2 wafers for the 6 fish so I doubt they all ate their fill and left that much left over, it pretty much looked like the entirety of the wafers which I now have to siphon out.
They experienced various light conditions including 8 hours of lights-out sleeping with the food in there so it’s not a matter of being nocturnal feeders.
My juvenile cories will not eat. The tank was in a fishless cycle that I did stop early (70 days, with several weeks of double-0s at the 16 hour mark but not at the 12 hour mark) but on the 4th day with 6 cory sterbai fish in, I am showing double-0s on ammonia and nitrite and 20-40 ppm nitrate (can’t much tell the diff in color and my tap water comes with 10-20 or more)
I have tried to feed them: Omega One Shrimp Pellets, Omega One Sinking Tropical Pellets, Omega One Veggie Wafers, and Hikari Sinking Algae Wafers.
The first night in (Saturday) I did not feed them, and I fed them the shrimp and tropical pellets (a little of each to see which they would like better) Sunday night, and last night the wafers. They snuffled all the sand around (very cool how they dimple nearly every surface of substrate overnight) and the filter flow caused all of the food on the first night to gather in one spot so they clearly must have kept it all moving around quite a bit as otherwise it wouldn’t have collected so fast. The algae wafers they seemed to peck at a little bit but then left alone and in the morning, I guess the wafers softened up sufficiently that either the tank currents or the fish broke them apart so there was basically algae particles spread out over a significant area. That was a total of 2 wafers for the 6 fish so I doubt they all ate their fill and left that much left over, it pretty much looked like the entirety of the wafers which I now have to siphon out.
They experienced various light conditions including 8 hours of lights-out sleeping with the food in there so it’s not a matter of being nocturnal feeders.
