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They are eating non-live food but when I added hundreds of live daphnia to the tank, the cories aren't going after them.

I would give them some time to get used to them & then they'll be easily eating them up......

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also,they are just like us,some of us like simple foods,and some dont!as said above give em time,then if they still dont eat them,they probly arnt going to.i have a pleco that hates catfish chips,he just will not eat them,but in my other tanks,my other plecos dont leave 1 scrap of them.just a thought

I usually feed all my Corydoras, Spirulina based foods. Occasionally I also feed them Earthworm sticks & when conditioning them, I also feed frozen bloodworms.

Hope that you're will eat the Daphnia & please keep us updated.


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Just found this.

If you want your Pandas to find Daphnia (something mine never had a problem with), you could try my feeding approach.

In my case, I mix live foods together so that all the fish in the aquarium have a chance at getting a share. I mix both Daphnia and live Bloodworm together, and if I have any in stock at the time, live Brine Shrimp as well. What usually happens is that when the blizzard of live food arrives, the Pandas first go completely nuts over the Bloodworm, but as they're snuffling about looking for more Bloodworm, their barbels detect moving Daphnia as well, the Pandas whip round to suck in whatever's moving, and hey presto, they munch on the Daphnia as well.

Trust me, if you feed them a helping of mixed live foods like that a few times, they won't miss out on the Daphnia when you feed it on its own. However, you have to remember that Daphnia have to be available close to the bottom for Corys to find it, as they won't go hunting in midwater for them with the exception of the likes of pygmaeus or hastatus. In my case, the Daphnia have the powerhead current to fight against, which ensures that they're nicely distributed throughout the aquarium where all the fish can get at them, but if your aquarium only has modest currents, the Daphnia have a chance to head for the surface, where they'll be out of reach of the Corys and only available to midwater and top feeders.


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