What To Feed My Pygmy Cories?

[-FighterFishh]

Hello all!
I'm new to catfish, and I recently purchased 9 pygmy cories for my community tank!
My problem is, I'm struggling to get food to them. I have some small food for bottom feeders and mid-swimming fish from Tetra, but often they aren't quick enough to get any, even if I try to distract the others with flake food! That said, they may be getting some, but after I've left the room?
I was wondering whether there was anything like Cucumber or something I could drop in, and they could eat that as well as any of the other food I try to get to them?

Any help is much appreciated!
Thank you!

 

[Fishy friend2]

I feed mine, bloodworms, catfish pellets, algae wafers, and meaty foods. they love meaty foods and i rarely even see them eating the algae wafers, so i dont think cucumber would be of any use

 

[-FighterFishh]

Okay! I did also have some sinking pellets but they don't really seem interested in those, my swords seem to like them more!
I'll try dropping in some more to see what they think and I can try them on some of the betta's bloodworms too and see what they make of them
Thank you!

 

[Fishy friend2]

try not to feed for the first couple of days as they only start to eat after about 3-4 days IME

 

[cynic]

Cories only have very small mouths and prefer to sift food from the sand. I use sinking pellets as the staple diet (as well as peas, bloodworm, flakes etc) for them but i leave them out so they go soft, then crumble them into dust in a little tank water.

Then with some nice obvious flakes for the other fish to fight over the dust gets ignored and the cories can feast at their liesure as the bits are too small for the other fish to see on the bottom. The down side is you can't see whats leftover so i use the amount of poo as a guide, a lot of poo= overfeeding.

 

[Katch]

I keep all 3 species of pygmy cory in my tank (pygmaeus, hastatus & habrosus) along with some larger corys and some rasboras.

My staple food for them is a tub of mixed Hikari minipelets, JBL Nanobel flake and a fairly generic mini sinking pellet (JMC High Protein). I just chucked all three foods into one tub and stirred it up a bit. My corys of all sizes love it.

I also supplement with frozen bloodworm 2 or 3 times a week. People will tell you that you need to shave it finely for the pygmy corys to manage; but I've seen them suck down some pretty big worms.