Fish like cory catfish that feed on both plant matter and meaty foods enjoy them too.
Cory catfish eat plants.
You can keep most cory catfish in a temperature range of 72 82 f.
They will not eat any healthy plant in the tank.
No cory catfish do not eat algae.
Cory catfish like subdued lighting and you can add floating plants in the aquarium.
Provide plenty of hiding spaces for the catfish to retreat if they want to escape the light.
These peaceful bottom dwellers can be kept with pretty much any community fish that won t eat or attack them.
While they may eat the occasional algae wafer you shouldn t expect them to eat any algae growing on your tank walls or aquarium decorations.
Yes pygmy corydoras are completely plant safe.
For best results feed a variety of high quality foods and rotate your fishes diet daily.
Aqueon bottom feeder tablets shrimp pellets tropical granules and algae rounds are all excellent foods for these catfish.
Therefore it creates a natural feeding ground for the pygmy corydoras as they are small they can get into places bigger fish cannot.
Although cory catfish won t eat algae there are still plenty of other things you can feed your cory cat.
Wafers are healthy and make a good everyday staple for cories because they are plant based consisting mostly of algae and veggies and are designed to sink to the bottom where cories swim.
The structure of the plan acts like a spider web it catches all the free floating particles.
Plants like mosses will also greatly benefit them.
Finally be sure to include rocks and decorations that provide places to explore.
Cory catfish also seem to really enjoy a tank with lots of live plants.
They simply do not eat healthy living plant material.
Therefore they will be often grazing on moss.
They enjoy scavenging going to the deep to get food so they eat almost everything eatable they find there.
Cory catfish can eat basic fish food like pellets fish flakes and bottom feeder tablets.
For instance don t keep corydoras with goldfish which get rather large and will inhale anything that fits in their mouth if you re looking for fish stocking ideas a 20 gallon aquarium could house a school of cory catfish swimming at the bottom a school of small tetras.
Sometimes you can catch them eating algae.
They also enjoy eating plants vegetables and other foods that other fish left around.
Feed only what your fish can consume in 2 to 3 minutes once or twice a day.
They are ideal when you have a community with other fishes that don t swim to the bottom of the tank to feed or only.
Some species like the sterbai cory prefer higher temperatures while others like the julii cory thrive in cooler environments.