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I want to set up a 20 gallon tank for my little girl. I was wondering what everyones choice for a Cory would be? I think panda's are cute. I've kept them before. What do you prefer?

It'll be totally unfair to those NOT mentioned for me to limit this to just one species, so here's the ones I like most:
is one of the most strikingly coloured species, and the long body shape makes them look stunning. Drawback is that some places charge arm & leg for them - but if you look around, you should be able to get them for around $10 each. They are also very active, and will provide you with a lot of "antics" in a well planted tank - swimming around looking for food etc.

- yellow fins are very beautiful, and they like warm water, which makes them good company for some of my plecos. If you have reasonably soft water, mature fish and do a cool water change, they can be bred.

- Stunning metallic shine, robust size. Quite an active species.

I also like all the other corys I keep, for having nice contrasting pattern - but don't seem to be as "outgoing" as some of the others, for it's slate-gray yet shiny colour, and quite active, and the striking colours of is definitely making them interesting - again, it's a fish that needs the right place to buy them from, or they can be excessively expensive - mine was bought at an auction for approximately $3 each (a group of , but I know some shops will ask around $40 each!

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Mats

exasperatus2002 wrote:I want to set up a 20 gallon tank for my little girl. I was wondering what everyones choice for a Cory would be? I think panda's are cute. I've kept them before. What do you prefer?

If you are planning to do this in a 20 gallon tank, I think your choices are limited, because you want at least six corydoras. I would go with the pandas (which I like quite a lot), or maybe one of the dwarf corydoras (pygmy, hasbrosus, or hastatus).

I like pandas, but my current favorite is the gold laser (cw010), which aren't easy to find or cheap, unfortunately. I think that a 20 gallon might be a little small for full grown gold lasers.

I absolutely love my but they are quite big and need fairly specific water conditions. I reckon a group of healthy takes some beating.

MatsP wrote:It'll be totally unfair to those NOT mentioned for me to limit this to just one species, so here's the ones I like most:

Corydoras robineae

is one of the most strikingly coloured species, and the long body shape makes them look stunning. Drawback is that some places charge arm & leg for them - but if you look around, you should be able to get them for around $10 each. They are also very active, and will provide you with a lot of "antics" in a well planted tank - swimming around looking for food etc.

Corydoras sterbai

- yellow fins are very beautiful, and they like warm water, which makes them good company for some of my plecos. If you have reasonably soft water, mature fish and do a cool water change, they can be bred.

Brochis splendens

- Stunning metallic shine, robust size. Quite an active species.

I also like all the other corys I keep,

Corydoras metae

for having nice contrasting pattern - but don't seem to be as "outgoing" as some of the others,

Corydoras concolor

for it's slate-gray yet shiny colour, and quite active, and the striking colours of

Corydoras weitzmani

is definitely making them interesting - again, it's a fish that needs the right place to buy them from, or they can be excessively expensive - mine was bought at an auction for approximately $3 each (a group of , but I know some shops will ask around $40 each!

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Mats

Funny you should mention the first two fish, after posting this I had emailed anubias design to see if they ever get them since they do get less then common fish on a regular basis. I forgot to mention it would be a 20 long (30" x 12").

I too like the contrasting color of - that dark top with bright belly is awesome on a dark substrate, and with their gold/orange lazers running down their body makes for a great looking fish!

I think a group of look very impressive.

is a rare and expensive smaller cory with a fairly unique look to it.

is a nice fish which is often available and look good in a group, with prominent dorsal fins

are a personal favourite because of the pattern

There really are too mant to choose from. I do like a lot of the long snout varieties but these can be a lttle aggressive amongst themselves and are better with more space.

robineae, Check
eques, new favorite since I got a group of 9
CW38, coolest of them all, nothing beats at displaying 10 cm male
CW10, or CW09, both very beautiful
Brochis multiradiatus, spectacular

to begin with...

Why doesn't bolding work???
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I reckon a really well-marked C Trilineatus takes some beating. Same goes for C Napoensis.

Alot of great choices...Thanks everyone! Now the hard part, finding someone that has them in stock or that can order them.

Can anyone recommend a company that has or can get any of the following in the US-

C. geryi
C. sterbai
C. robineae
C. weitzmani
C. duplicareus

Of those, C. sterbai is not that hard to find - they are captive bred on a commercial basis, so someone selling fish from either SE Asia or (probably) fish-farms should be able to get those.

C. robinae aren't common, but they are available from Brazil exporters.

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Mats

MatsP wrote:Of those, C. sterbai is not that hard to find - they are captive bred on a commercial basis, so someone selling fish from either SE Asia or (probably) fish-farms should be able to get those.

C. robinae aren't common, but they are available from Brazil exporters.

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Mats

Doing some searching someone on ebay has C. weitzmani
listed at $59.95 each.

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Corydoras sterbai

corydoras concolor

corydoras anywhoosis

exasperatus2002 wrote:Can anyone recommend a company that has or can get any of the following in the US-

C. geryi
C. sterbai
C. robineae
C. weitzmani
C. duplicareus

Try AquaBid, several of those species are on there.

My favorites;

- Corydoras "Green laser"/CW009
- Corydoras adolfoi

They are very beautiful, and i have them. But i love the most types of Corydoras...

You have to go quite far to beat in full display. I have a soft spot for too, they are striking in a darker aquarium. is vastly underrated too. The original nano fish!

Jools

Richard B wrote:

Corydoras gracilis

is a rare and expensive smaller cory with a fairly unique look to it.

Agreed, but they behave like !

Jools

Jools wrote:

Richard B wrote:

Corydoras gracilis

is a rare and expensive smaller cory with a fairly unique look to it.

Agreed, but they behave like

Amblydoras

!

Jools

Yes indeed, but that's the price you pay for being a catfish nut - often owning a fish that you seldom see (presuming you have a tank set-up that meets the needs of the fish)

My all time favorite has to be , this was the very first Cory that I bred in 1974 and I still keep a small breeding group in my fish house.
My current Cory of the moment is C144.These little fish have a peculiar swimming habit, which is more like that of a Goby than a Cory.

Just realised that there are no images of this species in the Cat-eLog, so have sent Jool a few.

Ian

I think C71 looks amazing although I've never seen them in the flesh, but my favourite has to be C. brevirostris. Adults of these are gorgeous.

Hi,


my 2 top favourites are C.gossei and CW21.

The reason why? Look at them and you know why...

http://siluriphil.schwebekoma.de/corydo ... ssen-1972/
http://siluriphil.schwebekoma.de/corydoras-sp-cw21/

Mathias

My favourite corydoras species:

1) C. eques - because of that burning orange dot, and because they've been on my wanted list for so long.
2) C. orange laser - talk about colour contrasts, these guys are unreal
3) C. robustus - can corydoras come any bigger!
4) C. fowleri - my favourite longnose

soltarii007 wrote: 3) C. robustus - can corydoras come any bigger!

Not Corys but Brochis, love multiradiatus. Even though the 4 I had died one very warm summer a long time ago.

I have to go with C. panda

Not a extravagant choice but it was the first to breed for me and for some reason I find it very attractive with smaller species scholling. Mine have always been very social, out and about all the time and not easily scared which counts for something.

Melander

My favorite Corydoras species is Corydoras hastatus.
They mimic many of the nondescript small, plain looking small Tetras.
They school well mostly in the mid third of the water column in large schools. I breed them in permanent breeding colony tanks. Corydoras pygmaeus shares some of the same traits but are not as attractive in my personal tastes and they are more shy about coming out in the open than Corydoras hastatus. My Corydoras hastatus colonies reach their best production of new fry when they number 100 to 200 in a 20 gal long. Productivity increases considerably. The 200 number is including all fish from the newly hatched larvae to the adult breeders. At these numbers, I can harvest at a rate where those I remove to sell are soon replaced by the younger fry. I allowed my colony to lapse when I removed them from their home of several years so I could use the tank for L260 plecos but outside the colony set up my population dropped to barely 50. I put them back in their own tank and I am again nearly back to what I consider my optimum self-sustaining target number of 200. I will reach my optimum population within the next 8 weeks and then I can resume their sales. I began my colony originally with only ten wild fish.

Among the more typical Corydoras my favorite is Corydoras species C121.
Corydoras C-121 is a fairly demanding species. I have found their eggs do not hatch well unless i keep them in extremely soft and acid water. Regrettably, I exposed my collection of C-121 to some non-quarantined fish from the LFS and the new fish introduced a fast acting disease, Flexibacter columnaris. I finally acquired some water soluble Chloramphenicol. This broad spectrum antibiotic is extremely effective in treating fish with Columnaris infections. This disease can wipe out a tank of susceptible fishes within just a few days if you do not have an effective treatment. I haven't seen any C-121 for sale since I bought my original 10 wild C-12 about 5 years ago. I had a few spawns but hadn't been keeping them in the ideal water chemistry so none of their eggs developed. Like most Corydoras from Rio Negro tributaries, they need to be given extremely soft, acid water and preferably, water stained by using Cattapa leaves. It is the only typical Corydoras that I would buy should I find some available again. Corydoras duplicareous and Corydoras adolphi are my favorite runner ups.
I also like Corydoras melini. They are not the most beautiful species but they have looks I find pleasing.