Peppered Cory Cats and African Dwarf Frog
Posted: 31 Jan 2007, 22:21
I have 3 Peppered Cory Cats in a mini-bow 5 tank. Will an African Dwarf Frog be okay with these?
unfortunatly they not very good at getting their food, so the corys may get the food before the frog and the frog starves to death. i fed mine indervidually by placing pellets right infront of him, and half the time he'd miss them and go elsewhere and not allways eat. but saying that mine have been in with rams, pencilfish, peppered corys some geos (who were still small) swordtails.their easy to care for. they require about a gallon apiece and it fairly shallow (ie 6-8", mine was in a 10" deep aquarium, but they prefer it shallower than i gave it) nuetral pH and about 24c/78f they work best with low turnover filters (as their not that great swimmers) so air powered box or sponge filters are good for them.
due to their poor sight (and possibly for dietry reasons) they sometimes swallon the substrate at the sme time as food, so silica sand works best as it avoids blockages they like some plants (ie.java moss and horwart(if yusing hornwart leave too float as they'll perch in it) 25% weekly waterchanges as their messy (i did 50% weekly due to the stocking levels i had) and will do better on live foods, sometimes prepared food can cause them too bloat and they'll float around the surface (not happened to me, mine coped fine with the prepared foods, but the auther of an article where i got the majority of my info (he has 20 tanks with various varieties of frogs and their spawn) had it happen to him)
after i read the article from which i learnt a fair bit i was planning a sp tank for the frog, but alas that was when he made his escape bid.