Salt And Pepper Cories

[EllieJellyEllie]

Hello guys! I was looking into getting some Salt and Pepper Cories for my tank (Corydoras Habrosus) to live with my betta.
 
They will be in a 15g tank, with a playsand substrate, moderate planting, some rocks, and some driftwood. My pH is a little high (It ranges from 7.6-8.2) but I was told if they are bred here and not wild caught they should be okay.
 
I wanted to have 7-8, and make sure I had the supplies for them before I get them, and then acllimate them while switching the tank around, and then add the cories, and then the betta last.
 
What should I get for them? I have some API Algae Wafers from my BN who has passed, and was wondering if they eat those. 
 
Do they have any special requirements? Im trying to learn as much as I can and have everything before I get them.

 

[Wut]

From what I was told, just give them a mixture of food since they will get tired and bored of just simply 1 product. A mixture of shrimp pellet, veggie rounds, sinking wafers and frozen bloodworms will keep the cories happy.

 

[DoubleDutch]

Be aware these little (great) Corys are omnivores but on the carnovorious side. You can feed them algaewafers but defo not as main food. I've found these Corys more difficult to keep than other bigger species.  Fine substrate, meaty / small food, clean water (think maybe pollution or high nitrates killed some of mine), good filtering, waterchanges, lots of plants (to reduce nitrates) aso will do the job.
Banging my head now and then as I have a dead one, though they looked perfectly well the day before. Keeping them in a 60 cm tank, so maybe that's the problem. Think I'll give it a go in a 1 meter tank soon. They are soooooo nice.

 

[EllieJellyEllie]

I plan on feeding Omega One Shrimp Pellets, and they can nibble off the algae wafers for the snails, but, what else? Frozen foods are super expensive.

 

[Lillefishy]

They really do need meaty food as well as pellets.
Frozen food shouldn't work out that expensive as you can cut the cubes in half as habrosus are so small, so they'll last twice as long

 

[DoubleDutch]

Are those so expensive in the USA ? Think of breeding some alive micro-/grindalworms?

 

[Seal36]

Do you have pets at home in the states as I get all my frozen food from them. They do a deal where you can get 5 packs of 40 cubes of gamma blister frozen food for £10 and I put 1 cube of food in each tank a day. So for me 1 pack last 20 days so 5 packs last me over 3 months as I only give them frozen food 5 days a week. Also I rotate which frozen food they get daily so they have a more interesting and varied diet.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Frozen foods should be a 'sometimes' food, not a staple.  The shrimp pellets will be a very nice option.   Feeding the frozen once a week, fasting once a week, and the shrimp pellets with an occasional algae wafer would be the way to go.
 
 
With the frozen, as mentioned, cut it in half and only feed that much at a time.  They are small fish, and between them and the betta, you don't need a whole lot of frozen food - be sure to defrost before feeding it to them.

 

[frapadoodle]

Agree with eagles. Not got hasbrosus, but my cories get shrimp pellets as a staple, and frozen bloodworms, tubifex worms, et cetera once a week as a treat after I disrupt everything doing tank maintinance.
As for cost, I agree with Seal, at Petsmart you can get Hikari frozen packs for about the same price as dry foods.