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	Feeding Corys
barthog1 Fingerling Posts: 38 Kudos: 44 Votes: 25 Registered: 16-Apr-2005	Probably a silly quetsion....but I have the sinking tablet type food for my newly aquired peppered corys. Should you simply throw a few in or should you break them up first? They seem too big for one fish, but only one fish can really get at them at one time.....
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:04
jase101 Big Fish Posts: 345 Kudos: 273 Votes: 1 Registered: 06-Jul-2004	i snap mine into thirds - more for access than anything else. means if any of the other fish get possessive, there's still plenty of food around.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:04
barthog1 Fingerling Posts: 38 Kudos: 44 Votes: 25 Registered: 16-Apr-2005	Does the rule of feeding only as much as the fish will eat in 2 minutes still apply here?
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:04
Natalie Ultimate Fish Guru Apolay Wayyioy Posts: 4499 Kudos: 3730 Votes: 348 Registered: 01-Feb-2003	Nope. It takes my fish as much as an hour to finish their wafers. [hr width='20%'] "They package brine shrimp and sell them to kids? That's not right, man!" I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.
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tessa38uk Big Fish Posts: 466 Kudos: 586 Votes: 121 Registered: 11-Mar-2004	feed my corys these they love them and they are just the right size for thier little mouths. Mind you the other fish love them to so i always put a good amount in. They are called King British Catfish Pellets here is a pic. tessa38uk attached this image: http://www.greenspersonalprinting.com/
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Fish_lover Fish Addict Posts: 742 Kudos: 176 Votes: 0 Registered: 14-Nov-2001	The only sinking tablets i use for my corys are the hikari algae wafers, adn they're onli spirulina, not some all-rounder commercial food. If the dinner for that day is just hikari wafers, then i'd give 2. But lets say i combine the wafers with some frozen bloodworms, then i'd only give 1 wafer, but split into half so other fish (like my L129) and corys have access to them.
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jasonpisani Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 5553 Kudos: 7215 Votes: 1024 Registered: 24-Feb-2003	It's better to split it up in 3 small pieces & you can feed just before you switch your lights off. How many Corydoras do you have?. http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/s8xi5heh/my_photos http://www.deathbydyeing.org/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/corydoras/ Member of the Malta Aquarist Society - 1970. http://www.maltaaquarist.com
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barthog1 Fingerling Posts: 38 Kudos: 44 Votes: 25 Registered: 16-Apr-2005	I have 6 peppered corys at the moment. The first time I have kept them....hence all the questions.
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Calilasseia Ultimate Fish Guru Panda Funster Posts: 5496 Kudos: 2828 Votes: 731 Registered: 10-Feb-2003	I have Hikari wafers as part of the diet of my Panda Corys, and I break them up into several small pieces. To make sure everyone gets a share,I use a piece of spare undergravel uplift tube to place them around the aquarium. Oh, and when the Hikari wafers go in, the Pandas start playing 'push hockey' with the pieces, competing with the Otocinclus for the titbits ... but that's because as well as spirulina algae, they have fish and krill meal in the mix. Hence the display of utter lunacy on the part of my Pandas when I put them in Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:04
lowlight Enthusiast Posts: 166 Kudos: 94 Registered: 03-Apr-2005	I know of 2 types of wafers by hikari, the alge wafer and the sinking wafer. My 6 corys don't care much for the alge but love the sinking wafer (which is supposed to be for catfish and loaches). Since I also have 5 kuhlis I drop 1 wafer at each end of the tank at lights out. Tetra also makes a tablet for bottom feeders called TetraMin tropical tablets, the fish like these to. Last edited by lowlight at 20-Apr-2005 00:47
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