Corydoras agazzii without a school
Posted: 28 Jan 2004, 04:00
Here's the general problem. I'm a sucker keeper for that "one lonely fish" all by himself in the tank. Such as the lone cardinal, the lone neon, the lone cory. I figure, hey, as long as it schools with my current fish, life is good.
However, today I picked up a cory that is certainly NOT one of my other cory species. I keep pygmy cories in one tank, and albino bronze in another, and today I came home with not one, but TWO "lonely fish" that were brought in by different people, and set aside in the For Sale Misc tanks of my lfs. One of these two was a bronze cory, who had not seen another cory in at least a month. Right now, he is schooling quite happily with my albinos; for the first few hours, he was always chasing after them, or trying to touch them constantly.
My other purchase looks, by all means, to be a corydoras agazzii. According to the lfs employee, he himself brought in this guy; apparently the employee picked up some concolor cories at another store, and this one was a "contaminant," in the employee's own words. So I snagged him up; better, thinks I, that he at least have SOME cories to school with, rather than being in a misc fish tank, including a red-tailed shark and a half dozen half-grown CAE.
Well, this newcomer won't be getting a school of his own, it looks like, because NO ONE in this entire area has these guys. If they did, I'd buy some, no problem...but alas, no one does. He's with the albino and bronze cories right now, and though he was touching the bronze constantly for some time, he seems to be going off on his own now, maybe looking for more of his kind?
The basic problem I face is which tank to keep him in, or rather, which species: the pygmies, whom are half his size, or the albino and bronze cories.
Is there another, common cory that LOOKS like agazzii in some form, such as the peppered cory? Please keep in mind that bronze, albino, peppered, and sometimes, rarely, overpriced pandas are the only cories in the area!
Really, should I have left this guy in the fish store, or can I possibly make him happy without other agazziis?
However, today I picked up a cory that is certainly NOT one of my other cory species. I keep pygmy cories in one tank, and albino bronze in another, and today I came home with not one, but TWO "lonely fish" that were brought in by different people, and set aside in the For Sale Misc tanks of my lfs. One of these two was a bronze cory, who had not seen another cory in at least a month. Right now, he is schooling quite happily with my albinos; for the first few hours, he was always chasing after them, or trying to touch them constantly.
My other purchase looks, by all means, to be a corydoras agazzii. According to the lfs employee, he himself brought in this guy; apparently the employee picked up some concolor cories at another store, and this one was a "contaminant," in the employee's own words. So I snagged him up; better, thinks I, that he at least have SOME cories to school with, rather than being in a misc fish tank, including a red-tailed shark and a half dozen half-grown CAE.
Well, this newcomer won't be getting a school of his own, it looks like, because NO ONE in this entire area has these guys. If they did, I'd buy some, no problem...but alas, no one does. He's with the albino and bronze cories right now, and though he was touching the bronze constantly for some time, he seems to be going off on his own now, maybe looking for more of his kind?
The basic problem I face is which tank to keep him in, or rather, which species: the pygmies, whom are half his size, or the albino and bronze cories.
Is there another, common cory that LOOKS like agazzii in some form, such as the peppered cory? Please keep in mind that bronze, albino, peppered, and sometimes, rarely, overpriced pandas are the only cories in the area!
Really, should I have left this guy in the fish store, or can I possibly make him happy without other agazziis?
