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I started out with five peppered corydoras, ICH took over my tank, and in the process of trying to treat the ICH I lost three smaller peppered corydoras. I now have two peppered corydoras left. I would love to have this tank soon be a corydora only tank (20 gallon long). My pet store is selling the Agassizi corydoras for the same price as their peppered corydoras though and I think the agassizi's are really pretty. I am wondering if these two would hang out together or should I just stick with the peppered corydoras? Would it be possible to have a small school of each? I don't have any experience with mixing different corydoras, any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi Meowmeowkittyfish,

Your C. paleatus would like to have a at least 4 or more to feel comfortable.
So my recommendation would be to buy a few more peppered cory's and maybe also buy 4 of the so called Corydoras agassizii;
http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/spe ... ies_id=309
Keep in mind that many shops selling C. agassizii are sometimes selling C. leucomelas as C. agasizzii,
http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/spe ... ies_id=485
both are fine fish and do well in small groups of 4 or more fish.
Your tank will look great with these small groups swimming and playing.
Have fun!

Don

In fact, I've had all three of these species housed together, albeit not at the same time in the C. leucomelas's case. They are all quite fine together and will generally hang out with each other a lot: my C. paleatus and C. sodalis are always sitting on the substrate next to each other; before that, Soda was always hanging out with and really playing with my late C. agassizzii. They're all fine together: not a lick of aggression in this genus of catfish!