View Single Post
  #12  
Old July 3rd 07, 04:05 PM posted to rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc
atomweaver
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 108
Default Appropriate tankmates for Corydoras

Dick wrote in
:

Brochis Splendens is my fish. I bought 6 of them about a year ago from
an internet vendor. The four I see (2 in each 10 gal tank) seem quite
healthy.


Hey, neat. If they're healthy, you might think about trying to breed
them. A dwarf strain emerald cory would be nifty. My 5 y.o. daughter
wants a small (10-20 gal) tank in her room with cories; pygmies or pandas
are the only permanent choices for that size tank which are widely
available now. I've grown out two c. paleatus in a 10 gallon, and at
2.25 and 3 inches of body length, they're going to have to have a new
home very soon... turns out, they're a mating pair.
Most cories breed pretty readily in a quiet aquarium (the only other
fish in my 10 were three zebra danios... lotsa motion in the mid-tank.
The Cories bred the day after they were removed to keep another tank
cycled, I think it was probably a contributing factor... a little peace
'n quiet and some privacy, ya know? ;-) That, plus good water
parameters, and a cooling water change (from 75, down to 70 degF) were
all they needed...

I have very limited names I recognize.


NP, that's why I used pictures with the sci names.

DaveZ