Ooops! didn't realize the dorsal was cut off. I was so busy trying to get a good shot of the body. I'll see if I got one with the dorsal. I know that's important in identifying it.

I have a 15 gallon and a ton of fish in it! LOL! It's heavily planted and well established. I have about 6 different species of cories and 8 each of neon tetras and rummy nose tetras. Both are very small fish, yet very colorful and lively. Oh! I also have a betta in there! Keeping it clean keeps ...

Went to my favorite aquarium shop to get some Panda cories. I had had 6, but over the years they died one by one, leaving me with just one, so I wanted to get her some company. While there, I saw this one cory all alone and felt sorry for it. I really wished there was more than one, but it seems to ...

No,no, no! I'd love them but it's expensive to ship them. You need someone to clear them through customs, etc. That's why you have to find an exporter. They take care of that.

Good luck! I love your fish!

I use CaribSea Torpedo Beach and my cories are doing great! They root around in it no problem. It's a fine, smooth gravel. I agree about the ph. As long as it's not something ridiculous - where I was living previously the ph was over 8! - once they acclimate to it, they'll be fine. The key is ...

Send us some fish! LOL! just kidding.

I have Metae and love them. In fact they were my first cories. I hope you find an exporter. Your fish look great!

Yep, they're right. That's the female. Looks just like my big fat girl! The boys chase her all the time and I've watched them spawn many times. In fact it was cool seeing her holding eggs in her fins one time. I tried to video it, but she went into the plants before I got much of it.

I love cories too! I have a 15 gallon with nothing but cories and a betta. Oh and a few ghost shrimp. :d I don't think those are elegans. They are very cool though! I have 7 species - panda, albino, paleatus, trilineatus, metae, leucomelas and something that looks very similar to the leucomelas but ...

I have an Eclipse 6 gallon that I used eco complete in, as I planted it and only had a betta in it. Had it set up for several years. Then I decided to add some pandas and paleatus'. I was afraid of the sharp edges of the EC, so added some smoother, small gravel a little at a time over it, so I ...

Thanks I guess I was thrown off by the circular pattern of spots on mine. They're really cute.

I found two of these today at my local aquarium shop. I looked through all the cory pix, but couldn't find anything that looked like them. The dot pattern on their sides looks like an oval bulls eye pattern. They're about the same size as my pandas - which were actually following one around. http ...

OOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just looking at that makes me wince in pain! Yowza! I was catching a Rhamdia quelen about 8" long to bag up to go to auction as i was supporting the fish in the net withe my right hand on turning the net to tip the fish into the bag the fish flipped out of the ...

I found that out the hard way, when I had some cories in a critter keeper and one of my cats knocked it over. In my haste to scoop my poor babies off the floor, I touched one of them and holy cow! did that hurt! I thought I sliced my finger open! I did a search here and found that yes, they can ...

Awesome tank and gorgeous fish! Wow!

I don't know much about loaches at all, but could they be doing it? I had a panda that had a torn fin a couple of weeks ago and couldn't figure out why either. I thought he might have gotten injured on a piece of decoration, (they get crazy during spawning and sometimes feeding frenzy and fly in and ...

Those are NICE!! I love cories and I'm always looking for something interesting and boy, are those interesting!

LOL! Nah, my cories aren't interested! If they were in with my betta... maybe. I had ghost shrimp in with him, but he didn't bother them so I think they'd be fine. Smarty pants.

these!
I couldn't resist!

but I thought I'd also show you my baby paleatus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPdmeCfmL2A

and my betta!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHvO22-5EbA

I stopped into an aquarium shop around here this afternoon as they have a TON of different cories and I wanted to see if they had anything I couldn't resist. Fortunately they didn't. :razz: But they DID have two tanks that were joined by two tubes and I thought of this thread. Here are a couple of ...

Well, I finally found my little guy and unfortunately he was dead. :( He was under a big bunch of java fern that's attached to a decoration. He looked like he was just resting, but I noticed the bottom half of his tail fin was now gone as well. When I moved the plants a bit he didn't move, so I used ...

Hi guys, thanks. I don't feel it's fin rot - all my fish are very healthy looking and the fin looked like it was bitten or torn. I think he might have gotten caught on one of the decorations. They are very active at times and when the paleatus go into a spawn frenzy, watch out! LOL! Sometimes they ...

Hey all, when I got home last night I noticed one of my pandas didn't seem right. Unfortunately I didn't get a good look at him before he darted off and hid, but his tail looked funny, like it was torn or something. Later on, as I was going to bed, I checked the tank and the poor thing was just ...

There's a great article on ich in a magazine I picked up in Petco called Aquarium Fish International. It explains the life cycle of ich and that it actually can only be killed after the cysts fall off the fish and the free swimming "theronts" (sounds like a stage in Scientology! LOL!) are about ...

I've used it too, but I would boil the hell out of it! LOL! In my original betta tanks, I boiled it first, to get rid of the tannins, so I had no problems. When I set up my 15 gallon cory tank, I only used the scalding water from my tap to soak it for several days, but that was not enough. There was ...

I looooove watching my cories when they're active! I have 7 species now - panda, metae, paleatus, trinileatus, schwartzi and my latest are either agazzizi or something else with an A, lol! can't remember what someone thought they were. They swim all over, sometimes chasing eachother, sometimes in a ...

I think I found it. It might be a delphax http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/image.php?image_id=1802 It looks a lot like the one in this picture. I didn't realize that they had a lyre tail until I took another look at it a few minutes ago. What do you guys think? I'll try and get a better picture ...

Yeah, common, or not, it's beautiful! So it's either an expensive fish with a free tank or an inexpensive tank with a free fish! (which is what he got) LOL!

I thought it might be an ornatus, but it has more spots than lines. The body is slightly gold colored and there is a gold stripe in front of the gills behind the eyes. The coloring doesn't show up well in my crappy photo.

Well, I just came home from running some errands and saw him again - soooo cute! He's actually about a half inch to 3/4 inch long, but still TIIIIIIINEEEEE! The other fish seem to be leaving him alone. His mama is absolutely MASSIVE compared to him! It'll be fun watching him grow. When I first saw ...

Well guess what?! This morning I was looking around my tank for the little ghost shrimp I got and lo and behold - a fry! It is sooo cute and TINY! A fraction of an inch high amd maybe a quarter of an inch long. Much smaller than the panda baby I spotted several months ago. He was foraging on the ...