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02-05-2005, 11:25 PM
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Corydoras not scavengers????
On corydoras world it says cories are not scavengers and should not be treated as them?? Whats the truth? I use mine as scavengers and I supplement them with other things. Do they just mean not to only have them as scavengers?...
http://www.corydorasworld.com/module...tent&tid=2
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02-06-2005, 04:16 AM
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Re: Corydoras not scavengers????
What it means is that cories need to be supplemented with comercial food products just the same as all other community fish. Even though cories eat the food that falls to the bottom, they won't go digging up the whole substrate just to look for a small morsal. Cories are only sometimes refered to as scavengers simply because they eat the food that falls to the bottom, but then again so do most fish. 
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If you have a big enough tank with enough hiding places, pH of around 7, you can keep virtually any fish together as long as all the fish are around the same size and these two groups of fish are avioded:
Serrasalmus
Tetradon(figure eights and dwarfs are the
exception).
I keep a successful community of fish in a 4 foot tank including the following families:
Cichlids, tetras, loaches, gouramis, barbs, rainbows, livebearers, killiefish, catfish, puffers.
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10-29-2008, 04:53 PM
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Don't forget to feed the Cories!
Right. It means they should not be left only to scavenge for their food from others' left overs, but that they should be fed directly too, such as sinking tablets or shrimp pellets.
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10-29-2008, 05:16 PM
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Thank you for your input CoryOto but this thread is almost 4 yrs old so most likely the original poster won't even see it.
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10-29-2008, 06:30 PM
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Sorry, I didn't even look at the dates. I posted something about Cories, and a list of related postings came up at the bottom afterwards, so I looked at and replied to one.
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10-30-2008, 11:20 AM
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Darth Ichthyos
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Oh, so THAT's how this keeps happening.
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