Get some shrimp pellets, most cory's like to eat those.
Fish sharing food.
As we all know, fish don't share food. They like to eat their share, and if some other fish doesn't get it, that's too bad.
I have a trio of bottom dwellers (3 panda cories) and a couple of mid-to-bottom dwellers (2 pygmy cories) along with 12 Rummynose tetras.
Whenever I feed, whether it's flake or frozen brine shrimp, it seems that the tetras eat all the food before it ever reaches the bottom. I soak all the flakes beforehand so that it'll sink faster, but that doesn't do much. The tetras attack it hard and leave nothing behind except for little bits. I see my panda cories scavenging the bottom all the time, but rarely see them eat any food.
So my question is: How do I get the food to the cories without the tetras eating all of it? Should I get some sinking wafers or something? If so, what should do you recommend?
I have a trio of bottom dwellers (3 panda cories) and a couple of mid-to-bottom dwellers (2 pygmy cories) along with 12 Rummynose tetras.
Whenever I feed, whether it's flake or frozen brine shrimp, it seems that the tetras eat all the food before it ever reaches the bottom. I soak all the flakes beforehand so that it'll sink faster, but that doesn't do much. The tetras attack it hard and leave nothing behind except for little bits. I see my panda cories scavenging the bottom all the time, but rarely see them eat any food.
So my question is: How do I get the food to the cories without the tetras eating all of it? Should I get some sinking wafers or something? If so, what should do you recommend?
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Yep. That's what I do.Get some shrimp pellets, most cory's like to eat those.
I throw in flakes/frozen at one corner...and while the top-dwelling fish are busy, I toss in shrimp pellets and more frozen at the other corner.
Hey susankat and epicfish,
Oooh shrimp pellets. Good idea. Thanks!
No more starving cories.
Oooh shrimp pellets. Good idea. Thanks!
No more starving cories.
It works real good, I have 19 cories to feed in a tank full of endlers. Talk about trying to scarf every bit. Endlers are real bad at it.
Use a turkey baster to squirt the food faster towards the bottom.
I actually started doing that when pre-soaking the flakes.Use a turkey baster to squirt the food faster towards the bottom.
Didn't really work. The only time it was effective was when I spammed the food as fast as possible into the tank. That way, the tetras couldn't possibly eat all of it at once.
Going to keep turkey basting and trying shrimp pellets next.
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