MattArmstrong
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I've got fifteen 1/2 inch C. Adolfoi split across two 10 gallon tanks serving as quarantine / grow out tanks. Seeking advice about what to feed.
Presently I'm feeding AP Breed TDO (http://apbreed.com/product_tdo_chroma_boost.php), which I bought at Aquarium Zen. Steve swears by it, but I would like to vary it up a bit. Also, the pellets are small and tend to float all throughout the tanks unless I turn the filters off and use a feeder ring ... I can never be sure the cories actually eat all of it, certainly not in the "2-3 minutes" that they're supposed to. The pellets are tiny and do sink, but some take a long time, by which time they've spread throughout the tank.
This is a new batch of fish, but I've have some recent experience with these little guys. In November I bought a different batch of 12 small C. Adolfoi from Wet Spot. Since then 6 have died, one by one, of various maladies, but the first loss didn't occur for two months. (as a side note, I'm pretty sure Kanamycin is a death sentence for a sick cory) The ones that remain are now semi-adult and seem healthy, and I've been feeding them AP Breed for about a month (the bigger fish have no trouble locating and devouring the stuff...they love it). I wanted a large shoal of them, so I bought more babies when they just became available.
In the original batch I fed them Hikari wafers exclusively for the first 3 months -- a mix of the algae and meat lovers wafers. Big advantage there is the wafer drops to the bottom immediately, stays whole for a long time, and I can observe the fish find and munch on it in a group. But, I wonder if the wafers failed to provide the nutrients they needed to grow strong, which led to weakness/illness.
One thing I won't feed is live blood worms. I fed them to the last batch a few times, they loved them, but the first fish to fall mysteriously ill did so soon afterward. I don't have the discipline to keep up with washing them daily, etc.
Presently I'm feeding AP Breed TDO (http://apbreed.com/product_tdo_chroma_boost.php), which I bought at Aquarium Zen. Steve swears by it, but I would like to vary it up a bit. Also, the pellets are small and tend to float all throughout the tanks unless I turn the filters off and use a feeder ring ... I can never be sure the cories actually eat all of it, certainly not in the "2-3 minutes" that they're supposed to. The pellets are tiny and do sink, but some take a long time, by which time they've spread throughout the tank.
This is a new batch of fish, but I've have some recent experience with these little guys. In November I bought a different batch of 12 small C. Adolfoi from Wet Spot. Since then 6 have died, one by one, of various maladies, but the first loss didn't occur for two months. (as a side note, I'm pretty sure Kanamycin is a death sentence for a sick cory) The ones that remain are now semi-adult and seem healthy, and I've been feeding them AP Breed for about a month (the bigger fish have no trouble locating and devouring the stuff...they love it). I wanted a large shoal of them, so I bought more babies when they just became available.
In the original batch I fed them Hikari wafers exclusively for the first 3 months -- a mix of the algae and meat lovers wafers. Big advantage there is the wafer drops to the bottom immediately, stays whole for a long time, and I can observe the fish find and munch on it in a group. But, I wonder if the wafers failed to provide the nutrients they needed to grow strong, which led to weakness/illness.
One thing I won't feed is live blood worms. I fed them to the last batch a few times, they loved them, but the first fish to fall mysteriously ill did so soon afterward. I don't have the discipline to keep up with washing them daily, etc.
