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Originally Posted by Obsidian
I hadn't been worrying about it because they all come to the top when I feed the flakes. I will try increasing the sinking food though and see if that helps.
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Top feeders eat food on the surface and bottom feeders eat food on the bottom.
This example is simplistic but I believe to be informative.
I have never seen a yellow cat, blue cat or channel cat break the surface of the water to get food but have seen many bass, perch and minnows do so.
I have quite a bit of experience with sterbai but limited experience with bristlenose plecos.
Based on this experience I believe that when the sterbai are really hustling groceries on the bottom of the tank and the bristlenoses are not bothering them that I have achieved an appropriate feeding protocol.
I have fed spirulina wafers, algae wafers and sinking shrimp pellets (as well as frozen blood worms and brine shrimp) and still do but more infrequently as I now mostly feed my home made mixtures.
Have you made one of my recipes and fed it.
The mixture will disperse such that the top feeders, the mid level feeders and the bottom feeders are happy.
TR