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Here's a silly question. I've got four cories and I'm dropping in sinking tablets every night. The trouble is this. I've noticed that the tablets seem to break up into small pieces in the water. So in the morning, I don't know whether they ate the tablets before they broke up, or if the tablets broke up and they ate the pieces, or if the pieces are just sinking under the gravel. How do I know they're eating anything? How can I tell if a fish is starving?

Also, how many tablets should I give them each day? Each cory is about two inches long. The usual rule of "two minutes of food" doesn't seem to apply here, since they don't eat it all at once.

Well about the tablets breaking up. I figure that since corydoras are bottom feeders, they'll find those small pieces and eat them anyways. They can't just suck pieces of the tablets, they need to be in even smaller pieces.

I feed 1 pellet every 2-3 corydoras I have. At the moment I have 5 panada cories and i feed them 2 pellets every morning.

You can feed them under the lights. Try to feed very little until they finish them up in 10 mins.

they are not night dwellers, just feed them the same time u feed your other fish.

Try other brands of tablet food, food that breaks apart usually cause more pollution

I think I'd better get another brand of tablet food. I put a tablet in a glass overnight as a test. In the morning, it had broken up into nothing but very small fragments.

Hikari Sinking Wafers !!!

It takes my panda cories like 30 minutes to eat the pellets.

Cories need more than the normal 10 minutes to eat. They are scavegers and they only nibble on food, so it will take longer for them to fill up. I usually feed 1/3 of a Hikari Wafer and 1/8 of a Hikari Algae Tablet or 2 sinking shrimp pellets. With my 6 cories and 2 ottos all the fod is gone in about 30 minutes.

So, a plan:

1. Feed them in the morning instead of at night, because they'll eat at any time anyway. This matches pretty well with my observations and it'll be easier in any case.

2. For now, maybe I'll drop flakes into the filter outflow to feed them. I've had to do that with my rams anyway, since they still don't know about coming to the surface for food.

3. Don't give them so much. The three tablets I've been dropping are probably way too much (although my biofilter's been pretty good about it).

4. Go get better food than these strange hard tablets that turn into dust in water, because the stuff is probably polluting my water more than it's feeding the fish.

[span class="edited"][Edited by Silverlight 2004-08-13 20:38][/span]

To feed them flake food, just use a syringe, fill it up with flake food, push it down (don't let it exit the syringe), then suck up water with the syringe so the flake food gets all moist and in the water, then shoot it all out. If you don't know what a syringe is its what they use for shots, except without the sharp needle.

You can all put flake food in a small container (smaller the easier), fill it with enough tank water so all the flake food gets wet, give it a little swirl or shake, and dump it in the tank. that should work.

My Cories eat whatever drops.
Flakes that fall from the surface are sucked up.. I also feed Liquid brine shrimp and liquid bloodworms..they LOVE these. I feed omnivore frozen food..they eat that. I also feed Hikari algae wafers that they eat pretty well. And, Nutrafin sinking tablets..they like these. Then again, all my fish eat all of this stuff.