fishtime!1
Fish Fanatic
Hello! I have 6 corydoras - 2 peppered and 4 sterbai, and yesterday 1 of them wasn’t interested in food and was sitting in the same spot all day - inside some cholla wood. Today the other sterbai corys joined him, but eventually started foraging once I put food in the tank, but that one is still stationary. But the peppered corys are still happy and foraging for food. I’m confused because this tank is very stable - it’s been going for ~2 years, my shrimp are breeding like crazy and my peppered corys are laying eggs. The two things I can think might be an issue - could the corys be getting stressed out by all the shrimp? There’s quite a lot of them, but whenever the corys are foraging and there are shrimp in the way, the corys just push the shrimp and move forward - so I thought that wouldn’t be a problem. And the second thing - maybe I’m overfeeding? During the week I feed twice a day, 2 small pinches of sinking bug bites and 2 omega one veggie rounds, plus one small pinch of slow-sinking bug bites that I grind up for the tetras. I usually leave the algae wafers in for a few hours because I want to give the shrimp a chance to chow down. Thanks!
Tank Information
Size: 20 gallon long
filtration: HOB with a carbon filter cartridge i change ~ once a year and a half
pH: 6
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 10
Temperature: 76 F
Tank occupants: 6 corys, 11 neon tetras, >50 cherry shrimp, bunch of ramshorns
Substrate: sand
Plants: Anubias, water lily, elodea, java fern
Decorations: Driftwood, dragon rock
Feeding schedule: Twice a day during the week, once a day on the weeknds
Food: sinking bug bites and omega one veggie rounds
Water changes: 30% once every week or two
