Yep, those pygmy corys were what I was planning on getting. They swim around
at midwater level? o_O When I go to the petstore they're always rooting
around on the bottom of the tank pretty much like a smaller version of
regular corys. At the time of the post I couldn't remember the name. When I
posted "a small variety of corydoras" I guess I wasn't very clear lol. I
still haven't decided on what I want to put in there with them. If they do
turn out to hang around midwater I guess I wont need to put anything else in
the tank! I put 3 plants a rock cave thing and a piece of aquarium wood in
there as perches so hopefully it will all work out. I plan on taking in a
water sample to the aquarium store on Wednesday to see if this fishless
cycling thing has worked. If it did I'll be bringing some home!

Thanks for the advice on the tank cleaning and overcrowding Dick. I think I
may have had both of those problems when I tried fishkeeping previously in
'95. I also made the mistake of having one or two of several different types
of schooling fish in there together. Because I wanted to try some of
everything. If I had the internet back then so I could talk with fellow
aquarists things would have gone a lot better I bet.

Anyway I have several tanks now and not a single fish death! So I must be
doing something right *crosses fingers* I've stuck to the weekly water
changeouts myself so far and it seems to be working well with my other
tanks. Thanks for all the advice!

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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).
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.
= )~
Do a search on them if you've never seen them.