What do Cories eat?

[TLM4x4]

This may seem a silly question...I do have 3 cories..one peppered and two bronze...I just know they are "bottom feeders" so the thought of "feeding" them didnt really enter my mind so what DO they eat?

 

[BigDaddy420]

shrimp pellets, algae wafers, they eat the flakes that float to the bottom too.

 

[TLM4x4]

THANKS BigDaddy...I had some and fed them and they EATTIN lmao...duh

 

[TrpTwlght]

Its best to not just feed them the wafers. I asked at my lfs and they told me to not do that. You need to feed them some shrimp pellets. Mine seemed content to eat the wafers, but I guess it's not a balanced enough diet for them.

 

[CAPSLOCK]

They make little bottom feeder discs, too... I think they're more or less compounded flakes designed to sink. They like pretty much whatever hits the bottom of the tank-flakes, pellets, frozen, discs, etc. I've found they prefer the meaty foods to the algae wafers.

 

[preggoguppo]

i dont bother with buying anything special, he always has food to eat that floats to the bottom... i look at it as that's a bottom feeders job, to clean up all the scraps

 

[Fish Friend]

Corys eat mainly catfish pellets, bloodworms, flake food and algae pellets. they will not eat anything living though, if you were to feed them live blood worms im sure they wouldnt touch it, only dead stuff

 

[phOOey]

i dont normally feed bottom feeders anything special, i used to, but they seem fine eating whatever i feed the other fish, normally flakes and bloodworms

 

[Sandtiger]

Flakes, shrimp pellets, freeze-dried food, you name it. I hear that they like live black worms too.

 

[svetlana]

Corys eat mainly catfish pellets, bloodworms, flake food and algae pellets. they will not eat anything living though, if you were to feed them live blood worms im sure they wouldnt touch it, only dead stuff

No, no, no - cories love LIVE bloodworms. Mine are very excited to get one, they swim to the top trying snaching some ahead of all tetras and zebras, not that they ever suceed in that but they take wriggling worms from the gravel. They take their time though to stuff them in their mustached mouths. Pictus cat swallows whole worms so quickly, you never notice, and even makes summersaults in te air so that not to miss his prey (worm).
Worms rule!

 

[Fish Friend]

aaaaaaaaaah ok... lol thanks for correcting me !! my lfs told me that so i dont give my cory cats anything live..