On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:30:34 -0700, Tynk wrote:

On Jun 30, 10:48?am, "newguy62497" wrote:
Hi I'm planning to start an aquarium with a small variety of corydoras. I
was planning on putting 5 of them together in a 12 gallon aquarium. I
haven't purchased anything for the tank yet so any advice on aquarium
furniture (I was thinking aquarium wood) and appropriate live plants would
be great. Would guppies be a good tankmate for them? If not what would be a
good choice? I would like to avoid neon tetras or zebra danios as I already
have another tank with those types of fish. As I'm sure you can tell from
this post I'm pretty green when it comes to home aquaria so I would like to
avoid any highly demanding plants or fish. Thanks for any advice!

Hi there.

A 12g tank isn't going to be a lot of room for many of the Cory types.
However, there are dwarf varieties and smaller types to choose from.
Panda cories stay pretty small. The males don't get much over an inch
and half long, I'd say. The females are a little larger, but you'd do
fine with 5 Pandas (mostly males).

Neither of my species (Emerald and ?) are over an inch.

Local shops can usually order certain things that they may not always
carry, such as Pigmy Cories.
These little guys are the cutest Cory of all (IMO). They stay very
small (maybe an inch long), school like a group of neons and they
often hover in a group, in mid water level. They're not your average
Cory.
They also have the cutest little faces. You could actually have a good
sized school of them in a 12g.
They'd need plants to perch on though. Again, these little Cories
don't act like the typical Cory cats. They like top perch on plants
too.
= )~

I have never seen my Corys perch on plants. Too bad for me, I would
get to see them once in a while. Just the 2 in one of the ten gallon
tanks are out front, often zooming from side to side, up and back
down.

They are good bottom cleaners, for sure.



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