Odd Corydoras Panda Behavior
Posted: 16 Nov 2010, 08:25
Well I've searched online and on the forums to see if there was an explanation for this odd eating behavior I noticed today.
I recently added frozen bloodworms to the food menu for my fish as I have "acquired" a new (to me) tank of ADFs (African Dwarf Frogs). Since it was impossible for me to break off a small enough chunk for those little hooligans I've started feeding my various corydoras species and pigfish (also known as a female betta) the extra worms. Now I have a couple of tanks that have various groups of Corydoras Panda in them. The older group in one tank is a mix of wild and tank raised ones and have been more or less thriving for nearly a year now. They even survived their filter killing itself with fire.
Recently I got a new group of tank raised pandas being kept in an emergency tank (my cat shattered part of the glass lid for their actual tank.) as this one has a lid. While watching them feed on the bloodworms I injected via a turkey baster into the substrate (round/smooth river pebbles over this weird aquasoil) I noticed one of the pandas seemed to be eating a bloodworm, just to "spit" it out of the gills. I didn't notice if any of the other pandas in this tank were doing this, and I know the older pandas in the other tank weren't.
So is this something I should be considered with? None of the other Corydoras species seem to do this either. For the record the tanks are all nearly a year old and with heavy planting of nitrate loving stem plants including the illegal anachranis.
I recently added frozen bloodworms to the food menu for my fish as I have "acquired" a new (to me) tank of ADFs (African Dwarf Frogs). Since it was impossible for me to break off a small enough chunk for those little hooligans I've started feeding my various corydoras species and pigfish (also known as a female betta) the extra worms. Now I have a couple of tanks that have various groups of Corydoras Panda in them. The older group in one tank is a mix of wild and tank raised ones and have been more or less thriving for nearly a year now. They even survived their filter killing itself with fire.
Recently I got a new group of tank raised pandas being kept in an emergency tank (my cat shattered part of the glass lid for their actual tank.) as this one has a lid. While watching them feed on the bloodworms I injected via a turkey baster into the substrate (round/smooth river pebbles over this weird aquasoil) I noticed one of the pandas seemed to be eating a bloodworm, just to "spit" it out of the gills. I didn't notice if any of the other pandas in this tank were doing this, and I know the older pandas in the other tank weren't.
So is this something I should be considered with? None of the other Corydoras species seem to do this either. For the record the tanks are all nearly a year old and with heavy planting of nitrate loving stem plants including the illegal anachranis.