{"id":206,"date":"2006-04-20T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/04\/hungry-critters\/"},"modified":"2006-04-20T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T22:38:11","slug":"hungry-critters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/04\/20\/hungry-critters\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungry Critters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three Peppered corys seem to like their new home just fine, and have readily displayed all the lovable characteristics of their species: always scrounging the gravel for tasty morsels, occasionally socializing together in a little catfish convention, and making mad dashes to the surface to get a bellyful of air.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image79\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/2006-Aquarium-PICT1504-corys.JPG\" alt=\"2006-Aquarium-PICT1504-corys.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I do have a worry though, and it\u2019s about feeding. The floating food I put into the tank gets cleaned out in seconds by the four Lionheads, Nibbler, Stripes and Aura &#8211; there are never any leftovers that get to sink to the gravel. I\u2019ve also tried soaking flakes in a small cup of water so that they sink, but the four Lionheads are just too alert to any presence of food. By the time the Corys sense there\u2019s food about &#8211; and they\u2019re slow at it to begin with &#8211; most of the sunk flake pieces are gone.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also tried chopping Hikaru alage wafers into tiny bits. While these sink properly to the gravel, it doesn\u2019t take long for the four Lionheads to sense there\u2019s more food and start searching for them.<\/p>\n<p>Quite a predicament. I\u2019ll be monitoring their feeding habits for the next few days before deciding what to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three Peppered corys seem to like their new home just fine, and have readily displayed all the lovable characteristics of their species: always scrounging the gravel for tasty morsels, occasionally socializing together in a little catfish convention, and making<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/04\/20\/hungry-critters\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Hungry Critters<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquarium-pets","tag-corys","wpcat-5-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}