Cory Schwartz query

Here ya go: http://www.thefishwiki.com/Corydoras_schwartzi

Lots of good information on them there.

Excellent.
Thanks for the quick reply.
This helped me a lot. So its a defence mechanism is it? Cool.

Though I'm a bit concerned about the toxin stuff it mentions on the
site!
A bit like Puffers then?

However after looking at the site, I like the other Corys I found
there.

For example:
http://www.thefishwiki.com/Bronze_Cory
http://www.thefishwiki.com/Peppered_Cory

These seem to look so cute!

Anyone wish to recommend which kind I should get? I've got a 200L
freshwater tank thats 6 months old. With a few large Angelfish.


P.S.
Thanks again for the web site link. Lots of useful stuff.

stuarth wrote:
Excellent.
Thanks for the quick reply.
This helped me a lot. So its a defence mechanism is it? Cool.

Though I'm a bit concerned about the toxin stuff it mentions on the
site!
A bit like Puffers then?

For the most part, Cories with brightly colored spines have the toxin.
It's warning coloration. FWIW, I've handled a lot of cories and never
been stung.

However after looking at the site, I like the other Corys I found
there.

For example:
http://www.thefishwiki.com/Bronze_Cory
http://www.thefishwiki.com/Peppered_Cory

These seem to look so cute!

Anyone wish to recommend which kind I should get? I've got a 200L
freshwater tank thats 6 months old. With a few large Angelfish.

They're a bit sensitive, but panda cories are my favorite. C. adolfoi
is a close second. I also like the very hardy, cheap, and attractive C.
trilineatus and C. julii.

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On 26 Apr 2006 12:19:51 -0700, "stuarth" wrote:

Excellent.
Thanks for the quick reply.
This helped me a lot. So its a defence mechanism is it? Cool.

Though I'm a bit concerned about the toxin stuff it mentions on the
site!
A bit like Puffers then?

However after looking at the site, I like the other Corys I found
there.

For example:
http://www.thefishwiki.com/Bronze_Cory
http://www.thefishwiki.com/Peppered_Cory

These seem to look so cute!

Anyone wish to recommend which kind I should get? I've got a 200L
freshwater tank thats 6 months old. With a few large Angelfish.

In my 55 (going to be) Angel tank I presently have 6 or 7 corys of
different ages. I keep a 15 gal with a dozen corys and just a few tiny
rasboras to keep the mid and top interesting. Once you discover the
fun of a school, corys can become addicting.

Corys do prefer some shade from plants or rocks, but if you have
angels I guess you already have plenty of areas where the light
doesn't get all the way to the bottom. One corner of my cory tank
catches direct sunlight for about an hour each morning, and that's
where you'll find them all, playing in the sun. I use water sprite and
stem plants in my cory tank, there is always some plant material that
breaks away from the substrate and becomes a floater.

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Mister Gardener wrote,
One corner of my cory tank
catches direct sunlight for about an hour each morning......

And no algae bloom (green water) yet? ............... Frank

Frank wrote:
Mister Gardener wrote,
One corner of my cory tank
catches direct sunlight for about an hour each morning......

And no algae bloom (green water) yet? ............... Frank

I have a tank in direct morning sun that doesn't have green water or
much algae at all. It's all in the fertilizer. ;-)

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On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:06:55 GMT, Altum
wrote:

Frank wrote:
Mister Gardener wrote,
One corner of my cory tank
catches direct sunlight for about an hour each morning......

And no algae bloom (green water) yet? ............... Frank

I have a tank in direct morning sun that doesn't have green water or
much algae at all. It's all in the fertilizer. ;-)

This tank contains no special substrate, just gravel and sand, and it
doesn't get fertilized, except by the fish. I keep the plants simple,
mostly water sprite, planted in the substrate and floating, along with
some mayaca, if I spelled that right, which I keep having to trim back
and replant.

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On 26 Apr 2006 23:07:13 -0700, "Frank"
wrote:

Mister Gardener wrote,
One corner of my cory tank
catches direct sunlight for about an hour each morning......

And no algae bloom (green water) yet? ............... Frank

Nope. Been set up since February. Some diatoms early in the cycling,
today just a light coating of green algae on the glass, limited to
that area. A razor blade every few weeks removes that algae. Water is
clear. It's a small area, where the sun hits, happens to be the corner
where I used playground sand for substrate, perhaps 6 x 6 inches, and
the motion of bare tree branches outdoors cause the sunlight to sort
of dance on the substrate. It's a scenario I never could have dreamed
up myself, and as the sun moves higher in the sky and the trees leaf
out, it will probably be gone until next winter.

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Mister Gardener and Altum,

Must be my water - comes out of the tap with nitrAtes between 10 and
20ppm depending on the time of year. Any direct sunlite at all = green
water. Funny though, lights are on a timer and at peak light, I'm
putting 4 watts per gal. in the tank (4 hours). Late afternoon sunlite
would hit the tank if the drapes were open - every once in a great
while one of us will forget and leave them open - by the next morning
we have the start of an algae bloom. Hmmm - mabe it's just that little
bit of extra light that does it (?)
................... Frank

On 27 Apr 2006 08:07:43 -0700, "Frank"
wrote:

Mister Gardener and Altum,

Must be my water - comes out of the tap with nitrAtes between 10 and
20ppm depending on the time of year. Any direct sunlite at all = green
water. Funny though, lights are on a timer and at peak light, I'm
putting 4 watts per gal. in the tank (4 hours). Late afternoon sunlite
would hit the tank if the drapes were open - every once in a great
while one of us will forget and leave them open - by the next morning
we have the start of an algae bloom. Hmmm - mabe it's just that little
bit of extra light that does it (?)
.................. Frank
4 watts per gallon is a lot of light, though I don't know the science
well enough to comment on the effect if it's only on for 4 hours a
day. Plants need nutrients, light, and CO2. Too little of one, and the
others are left over to feed the algae. Too much of one, and it feeds
the algae. Are your non-algae plants getting enough nutrients, usually
added from a bottle, and CO2, with Flourish Excel or a CO2 bubbler?
And finally, do you have enough plants to take up all the nutrients,
CO2, etc - grabbing them before the algae gets them?

That's where my experience ends and Altum's takes over, so I now pass
this thread on to Altum.

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