Some of my Corys!

Corydora_FREAK · Post by **Corydora_FREAK** » 05 Jan 2007, 20:13

I have 6 corydoras inmy 55 gallon tank. They are sweet so i figure i will show you a pick of them

and this is my male peppered cory "Sarge" hanging out with my other male "Speckeles" who is deceased now

RIP buddy

kuhni · Post by **kuhni** » 07 Jan 2007, 01:06

Nice Cories, I see you have peppered, Trilineatus and Leucomelas. It would be awesome if you could bump up the numbers of each species of cory. Especially since they are such cute little critters they deserve some more friends

Nice Tank btw.

hellocatfish · Post by **hellocatfish** » 16 Jan 2007, 06:35

Great photos. Wow, wish I knew how you got such nice photos.

Sorry about Speckles' passing. What else is in your tank? I have a 30 gallon and just added 2 cory sterbai yesterday, and 6 more danios. That's all I have, danios and corys. They all get along so well I am afraid to put anything else in there and ruin the community spirit. The Danios learned to hang out and dine with the cories because the filter stream even on lowest setting shoots the flake food down fast, as well as the current from the undergravel filter. The flakes stay floating only very briefly. So it pays to be pals with a corydoras in my tank.

I have 6 Albino Bronzes, one Peppered and his pal, a very plain but friendly C. Elegans who was a tankmate of the lone peppered cory at the shop. And now the 2 sterbai, who are a little bit older and bigger than the rest and less sociable with the other fish than with each other. All of my fish are still juveniles, though.

I'd love to add more varieties of cories or give the sterbai another of their kind, but I think now with 24 total fish, I'm overstocked.

I didn't mean to have just cories and Danios when I set out. I just got unexpectedly nutty about the cories. The Danios are easy to keep and come in such variety of fin lengths and colors that before I knew it, I had a really nice school of them, too.

I think my favorite of the cories is my Peppered cory, because he often swims upside down at the top of the tank. He'll slip into the bubble stream at the surface of the water that shoots out of the outflow tube of the undergravel filter and surf the bubbles upside down all the way across the tank. It's quite a sight! Is yours as wacky, too?

kcmt01 · Post by **kcmt01** » 28 Jan 2007, 18:36

Okay, first of all, I want to know what equipment you used to get such great photos! In any case, I sure agree about Cories. Parents often buy those little 10 gallon "starter kits" for their kids for Christmas. I think the first fish in the tank should be danios or White Clouds, followed by Pepper Cories. They are inexpensive, hardy, and truly fun fish to own. I have never seen any Cory display any aggression towards another fish.