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Corydoras palateous June 1995 to December 2007

Cory

Today my oldest cory has died. He was 12+ years old. This cory lived through various aquariums and biotypes. What started off as Amazon biotype with angels and tetras with corys as a side fish went to rainbows and became a catfish tank with Congo tetras for added color. The little cory never wavered, he suffered through various aquarium moves and home moves and never got as much as ich. He outlived heaters, filters, lights and even a broken aquarium. He was a spunky character always blinking his eyes and getting air bubbles.

Cory leaves behind several new tank mates and some old time buddies, including the corydoras aneous, peckoltia sabaji and his best friend the ancistrus sp. In addition to his tankmates, cory leaves behind his family (the kids will miss you if I told them) and Sammy the cat who always looked longingly at you (I don’t really know if the cat wanted to eat you though )

RIP

Sorry for your loss.

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Mats

Does anyone know what the average age a cory lasts?

Average numbers are pretty poor, I'd say, since many are "beginner fish", and not necessarily well cared for [not intentionally, of course].

But I know that Ian Fuller once told us about some that he had that were 18 or so years old.

"Normal" is probably closer to 10, and 12 years is definitely in the "well done" region.

[I decided to move this, as it's cory, not pleco].

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Mats

Sorry for your loss.

Sorry you lost that little one.

12 years old - he certainly had a good home and life with you!

If you read some of my other posts I don't know if I was the best he could have. I made many mistakes in fish keeping from plugging in filters into the timer for the lights to overstocking tanks.

I can say in my 20 years of keeping fish the secret to keeping them was massive weekly water changes. No matter what I did wrong water changes always seemed to help.

Water changes are almost always amongst the best cures one can think of - and if one is curing, water changes should always be continued - or increased

So I'm not surprised your errors were partly negated by waterchanges