Appropriate tankmates for Corydoras

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:07:47 GMT, atomweaver
wrote:

Dick wrote in
:

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.


Wow. Healthy emerald corys (brochis splendens) should be two or two and a
half inches total body length...


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.


Are you sure you're talking about the same fish? Emerald Corys aren't a
cleaner fish. They're heavy-bodied armored catfish, ominvores with a taste
for worms, benthic inverts and insect larvae... What you're describing
(inch-long algae/bottom cleaners) sound more like Otocinclus cats, to me.

Pics;
Brochis spendens
http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.u...splendens2.jpg

Brochis Spendens 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. The 2 in a 75 gallon tank stay under the bottom growth. I
haven't seen those 2 for awhile.

I have very limited names I recognize. I bought the Emeralds from a
picture the vendor had posted. I don't know Brochis Spenden as a name
as the vendor billed me for Emerald Corys.

Definitely NOT Otocinclus.

otocinclus sp.
http://www.holendry.republika.pl/img...clus_2_1_m.jpg

Regards
DaveZ

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

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:05:35 GMT, atomweaver
wrote:

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


I have 2 Julie Corys also around 1 inch. I have had them in a 75
gallon tank for 4 years.

I bought both the Julie and the Emeralds over the internet, the 6
Emeralds a year ago from Baileys, San Diego, Calif., 858 270 1182.
Their website goes by a different name, but here is a link to their
catfish page:

http://www.aquariumfish.net/catalog_...ngers.htm#top2

The invoice includes fish normal size as 1.5 - 2 inches. The website
indicates 2 - 2.5 inches. Mine may be over an inch. They don't stay
still very often to be measured. g