Corydoras and feeding

[TheFragile]

Hi all, I have a 20 gallon with 5 corydoras as well as all all of their tank mates (5 glo skirt tetras and 7 neon tetras). I feed them tiny amounts of flakes along with a few sinking pellets for the cat fish.

I have read many contradicting things about corydoras and feeding. I have some considerable algae growth in my tank that I keep at bay as best I can with water changes and cleaning, but with that as well as any food that the tetras don't grab, do they get enough food on their own or are the extra sinking pellets necessary?


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[Nils]

I would say to keep doing what you're doing. You can get algae wafers and throw in one or two every few days, they love them. There are larger sinking pellets you can get that will be too big for the other fish and the cory's should have no problem with those.

 

[Stacey W.]

Mine loved Hikari sinking wafers.

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[ImACoolguy]

Mine loved Hikari sinking wafers.

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+1!

Our emeralds and pandas love these wafers!


Caleb

 

[TheFragile]

Thanks, I just want to make sure I'm not over feeding, since I do have algae. My last tank was a 6.5 gallon and I never had an algae problem. Not sure what's causing it:


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[Fishobsessed7]

IME cories don't eat algae, but will nibble at algae wafers.


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[brennae]

Corys are protein eaters and need meaty foods. Hikari sinking wafers are great as was mentioned, New Era makes Tropical Grazers and they like them too. I also feed mine a variety of frozen such as bloodworms, brine shrimp, mysis shrimp, daphnia etc.

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