Pygmy Cory feeding

[frootbat]

Hi all,

I have had 8 of these little guys for a week now, and have been feeding daily, usually a small hikari sinking wafer (They congregate around it and I give them an hour at it, then I vacuum the remains), and every so often they get frozen bloodworm or frozen baby brine shrimp. I'll fast them one day on the weekend.

I have read on another site to feed them twice daily, but I wanted confirmation from the experts. Also, if you know of a frozen food I can get that they will go crazy for as a treat, please let me know.

Thanks

[MatsP]

Smaller fish tend to need feeding more frequently than large fish - same with nearly all animals actually. So yes, "little and often" is a good idea.

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Mats

[evesonevo]

All my corys are fed twice daily with the exception of waterchange day where i stir up the substrate before changing the water and then i only feed them late on at night.
I try to feed mine with flake/pellet/tablet in the morning and a live or frozen food in the evening.
For your small pygmaeus try crushed tabimin and if you can hold of some live grindalworms i'm sure they'd love that, if failing that stick to the frozen bloodworm, i tend to chop mine up into a mush so the particles aren't too big for them.
Col.

[apistomaster]

I use a lot of chilled live brine shrimp nauplii.

[Coryologist]

Decapped BS eggs. No hatching hassles, no rotting upon hitting the bottom, higher nutritional value than a newly hatched nauplii, easier to detect uneaten food, less expensive than eggs for hatching and oh, did I mention the no hatching hassles??? lol. - Frank

[unotim123]

I smash jbl novotabs and give c.pygmaeus.Try it.

[apistomaster]

Nothing works as well as live baby brine shrimp and decapsulated eggs although live cultured Grindal worms are also invaluable for conditioning breeders. Live foods and decapped brine shrimp eggs are essential for easier breeding dwarf Corys of all species.
The 3 dwarf Corydoras may be bred in permanent species set ups. I find this is the easiest way to raise them in large numbers. I just give them a well filtered and aerated 20 Long and begin the colony with at least 10 but preferably 20-25 fish. Provide a heavy growth of Hornwort for the eggs and fry to be hidden. As soon as the larvae transform into miniatures of the adults they leave their hiding places and join the larger school. As more sizes become present the more new fry will survive. I also grow Cherry Shrimp in my breeding set ups. The shrimp do not eat the fish eggs or newly hatched larvae.
I raise C. hastatus and C. habrosus.