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

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