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There are bait for catfish sold in sporting goods stors. They are sold in large pellets.Would they make good corydoras food?

i'm doubtful. usually bait is made to smell appealing and its not too good for much else. so i'd guess that bait probably shouldn't be trusted as a fish food. i wouldn't think bait would be particularly healthy for fish.

but i'm no expert. just thinking out loud.

I agree with Smellsfishy.

I would also add that Bait sold for fishing isn't necessarily attractive food for cory's. It is most likely aimed for the genus, which is a different group of fish than cory's when it comes to what they normally eat...

And as you probably know, food that tastes nice isn't necessarily good for you - Shane calls this "The McDonalds effect" - tastes great, not recommended as a staple diet by nutritionists...

A varied diet based on mainly small water-insects/larvae, worms, along with pellets aimed for bottom-dwellers. Tetra Bits/Prima is a favourite amongst my fish (not just the Cory's, all my fish except the Panaque's go for it... Panaques eat wood in nature, so I don't really expect them to go wild about meaty foods - in fact I'm happy that they DON'T!).

You can make your own fish-food too. In the article linked below, there's several ideas for "carnivore" food - although that's intended for Pleco's, it's fine to use for corys too - but you'll want to make it smaller pieces (really FINE pieces, to be precise). Prawns/shrimp that are mashed up, small pieces of cooked fish, etc, etc.

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Mats