What to feed??

[_underwater_mermaid_]

What foods to catfish eat cause I feed them flake food most of the time but the other fish eat it before the catfish get a chance what kinds of foods sink straight to the bottom

Thanking you in advance

Mandy

 

[yhbae]

There are many sinking food in forms of pelletes or wafers. Try to get some algae wafers, shrimp pelletes and pellete based food. I would recomend New Life Spectrum pelletes for small fishes...

 

[yhbae]

I assumed you were referring to cory cats. If you are referring to plecos, then you can also give them vegetables such as zuchini, cucumbers and other vegetables. Slightly blanch them, and they will sink.

 

[_underwater_mermaid_]

Bronze catfish and pepper catfish

 

[My Head Hurts]

I feed mine algae wafers and frozen bloodworm. They really seem to like the bloodworm but you gotta defrost it first or all the other fish guzzle it up. Algae wafers are good because not many topwater fish eat it and all sorts of catfish usually like it. It can foul your water if you put too much in and it does'nt get eaten though. Hope thast helps

 

[millym]

hi there
we have 2 peppered corys & they love all sorts of sinking tablets - algae & other ones. hikari makes algae tabs & catfish tabs which ours seem to enjoy but theres loads of other brands out there have a look at your lfs. ours also love tubifex cubes - i stick them on a clip on the side of the tank & our corys spend ages swinging off them munching away & also if i just chuck a tubifex cube in they swim up to the top to get it.

 

[Cheese Specialist]

I feed my cories catfish pellets and tetra prima granules, also bloodworm.

 

[Barday]

When I put cucumber in my tank my pleco went up to it, sucked it for about 5 seconds and never went back to it. The corry's didn't like it to much either..........the only fish which did like it was the clown loaches.

Anyway for the cats, I feed the hikari sinking pellets, hikari algae wafers, frozen bloodworm and chopped muscles

 

[HotStuffGal]

Though it depends on the Catfish I Do Reccomend Wardleys Shrimp Pellets

 

[_underwater_mermaid_]

Thankl You soo much peoples!!!

 

[Inchworm]

Though it depends on the Catfish I Do Reccomend Wardleys Shrimp Pellets

Hi HotStuffGal

I used to feed my corys lots of Wardley's Shrimp Pellets, but I no longer use them or recommend them.

The old cans that are called "Shrimp Pellets," are good, but the newer ones that say, "Shrimp Pellet Formula," are not the same thing at all. They have changed their recipe and added a large amount of ground wheat as a filler. The fish will not eat this and it will settle into the gravel.

This change has lowered the protien content of the pellets from 37% to 30%, which is not very much, especially since corys need a diet high in protein rich meaty foods.

 

[yhbae]

Though it depends on the Catfish I Do Reccomend Wardleys Shrimp Pellets

Hi HotStuffGal

I used to feed my corys lots of Wardley's Shrimp Pellets, but I no longer use them or recommend them.

The old cans that are called "Shrimp Pellets," are good, but the newer ones that say, "Shrimp Pellet Formula," are not the same thing at all. They have changed their recipe and added a large amount of ground wheat as a filler. The fish will not eat this and it will settle into the gravel.

This change has lowered the protien content of the pellets from 37% to 30%, which is not very much, especially since corys need a diet high in protein rich meaty foods.

Damn, I just checked what I had - I purchased it over a year ago and still have over half of it left, so I was hoping it would be the better one, but the one I have is in fact the 30% protein one... shucks.

Whatever its worth - it appears that my fishes have gotten used to them - they do it them completely with no residue. I used to have lots of problems with residue getting stuck in between gravels until I switched to pool filter sand. These days, I don't see any residues coming off from the substrates when I do gravel vac...

 

[Inchworm]

Hi yhbae

It must be nice to have sand, but every time I think about making the change, I back out. I've been using the same kind of small gravel forever, it seems.

I've found the old cans of Wardley's Shrimp Pellets in some stores as late as two months ago, so there must have been a lot of it around. But, the new ones got down into the gravel and I think it actually started fermenting there. I siphon the bottoms whenever I do water changes and when I see bubbles coming out of the gravel in tanks full of young corys, I know something is very wrong. These particular tanks were getting about 5 cleanings a week because they were full of young corys that were old enough to be heavy eaters. There is no way that should have happened normally. When I stopped feeding the shrimp pellets, the problem stopped too.

Now I am looking for another brand to give the corys a little more variety in their diet, but haven't found a good replacement yet. I've tried one made by HBH, but they seem to stay very hard and the corys don't want to eat them.

 

[yhbae]

It must be nice to have sand, but every time I think about making the change, I back out. I've been using the same kind of small gravel forever, it seems.

What's keeping you from switching to sand? To tell you the truth, all of my future tanks will be sand of some sort - pool filter sand will be the coarsest (is that a word? ) I will ever go, at 2-3mm in size. PFS is sooo easy to take care of, even during gravel vac...

 

[Inchworm]

What's keeping you from switching to sand?

Hi yhbae

Well, I have 17 tanks, two of which are bare bottomed (for tiny fry) and one which has large pebbles on the bottom to accommodate frogs. All the rest have the same #3 builders gravel in them. I buy it by the 50 lb. bag.

It's just so convenient to be able to set up a new tank by borrowing a little gravel from here and a little more from there and the same with a little filter media. I can put up an instantly cycled tank in a matter of minutes. I'm afraid that once I start the process of switching to sand, I'll no longer be able to do that.

Frankly, it seems like an overwhelming amount of work to do when there's nothing really wrong with what I already have. It would be nice though.