AMAZING CORY!

[vanvran]

One of my albino cories has fallen in love with a wedge of cabbage I put on a clip in the tank--he decided instead of eating it, it made a wonderful hammock, where he slept on in for days! I got worried and had to remove, to avoid pollution and he's back to scouring the tank again. They are soooooooo cute!

 

[ravekiss]

They are soooooooo cute!

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I share your love...I'm crazy about corys! and Albinos are one of my favs.

 

[vanvran]

Revaekiss: me too, I have a hard time holding on to them though--the last batch I bought lost their whiskers--then died, now these two are losing them. I was about to order sand to replace the gravel, but the small local LFS (I trust) seems to think that isn't the reason--says her cories are in gravel tanks with no loss of whiskers.

 

[blitztidus]

I once had a cory fall in love with a piece of lettuce also. it happened last year to an albino one. we only had it for a couple of hours and it already made itself at home.

 

[Siamese Fighter05]

Hehe first time ive seen some albino cory in any of my lfs ever and u bet i snapped sum up.
17gallon tank:
2 panda cory
1 lepord cory
1 bronze cory
2 ablinos cory
8 neons
1 female betta

Just wanted to make sure im not over stocking.
I have two corner box filters. one is a juwel rekord 60 standard with 4 layres of different sponge one to help generate beneficial bacteria. My other is a small can but it generates a powerful surface current. dont worry bout my lil betta its been set up to give her a section of gentle surface water. neway she spends most the time lokking after my lil albinos she only surfaces to get oxygen then dives straight back down to her lil babies.

Oppps sorry if i nicked the thread jsut got carried away and wanted to make sure i was doing everything ok

 

[Teelie]

Not overstocked IMO but you need another Panda and Albino, two more Bronze and two more Leopards to keep all the fish happy. More would be ideal but this would be pushing the tank limits.

 

[ravekiss]

Revaekiss: me too, I have a hard time holding on to them though--the last batch I bought lost their whiskers--then died, now these two are losing them. I was about to order sand to replace the gravel, but the small local LFS (I trust) seems to think that isn't the reason--says her cories are in gravel tanks with no loss of whiskers.

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Since the summer started I lost alot of corys too. Two of them had no barbels but I bought them like that from the store. I tried treating them for bacterial infections on several occasions but I lost them along with a few others. To this day I cant figure out why because all the other fish in my tank aer fine and all water levels are fine. I bought some Sterbai corys about 2 weeks ago and 1 died within 4 days. So far the others are doing well (knock on wood). I hope they dont die like the others... . Even though its known that corys prefer sand to gravel, I dont think the gravel is making them lose their barbels because I've had corys in that same tank with the same gravel for over 9 months and they're barbels are fine. From what I;ve learned here it maybe bacteria in teh gravel thats causing infections. I clean my gravel thoroughly and still had the problem. Cause for my deaths are unknown to this day.

 

[GSD]

i have 2 at the mo i lost 2 afew weeks ago but im getting 2 more this week.Theyre so funny.Once i got ories i havent got any other catfish

 

[Siamese Fighter05]

Strange i read so many posts about how people have lost cories. I must just have some luck with them because ive never lost one,and theyve always been healthy.
I have bad look with most liverbearers though

 

[blitztidus]

Hehe first time ive seen some albino cory in any of my lfs ever and u bet i snapped sum up.
17gallon tank:
2 panda cory
1 lepord cory
1 bronze cory
2 ablinos cory
8 neons
1 female betta

Just wanted to make sure im not over stocking.
I have two corner box filters. one is a juwel rekord 60 standard with 4 layres of different sponge one to help generate beneficial bacteria. My other is a small can but it generates a powerful surface current. dont worry bout my lil betta its been set up to give her a section of gentle surface water. neway she spends most the time lokking after my lil albinos she only surfaces to get oxygen then dives straight back down to her lil babies.

Oppps sorry if i nicked the thread jsut got carried away and wanted to make sure i was doing everything ok

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It seems like you are pushing it already. all those 11 fish NEED their room. I would upgrade the tank before adding more.

 

[mattbeau]

Strange i read so many posts about how people have lost cories. I must just have some luck with them because ive never lost one,and theyve always been healthy.
I have bad look with most liverbearers though

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I think i'm lucky too, i've had the same pair for almost 4 months on regular good old gravel, they were there when i originally cycled the tank and are the sole survivors of an ich outbreak.

there barbels are fine and they are very busy. i've been told to get more but I'm afraid of over stocking and they seam fine, they are 1M/1F so maybe that helps

they are extremely hardy

I've been feeding them (though they will eat anything) wardley shrimp pellets

there diet also includes (left overs) tetra color fish flakes, frozen blood worms and frozen brine shrimp, (dont know if they are eating the hikari algea waffers)

tank mates
2 honey dwarfs 1M/1F
5 Neon tetras
3 ottocinclis (sp?)
in a 20 g heavy planted (fake and anacharis) 2 penguin 150 biowheels

 

[Siamese Fighter05]

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It seems like you are pushing it already. all those 11 fish NEED their room. I would upgrade the tank before adding more.

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In their indivual groups They are less demanding and dont actually need that much room. a female betta will hapilly live in a heated 2gallon tank, Cories dotn need a large tank either as they are inactive most the time, and tetras also dont demand much space, i was more worried about the numbers i had but it will be sorted very shortly as im getting tank 3times bigger so ill just top up the cory number so every species has 3 and maybe get another shoal 0f 6-8 tetras, black phantom would work ok? i never really liked them on the internet pics but they had some in at the lfs and they were really nice.
New tanks is somewhere in the region of 100cm x 38cm x 45cm
(length x depth x height)
and i was planning on adding fish to get these:
(Cories)
3 x panda
3 x lepord
3 x albino
3 x bronze
8 x neon tetra
8x black phantom tetras (i think that what they were)
Would that work ?