Cory Company

[55gal]

I've had an Emerald Green cory all by himself for three years and he has been doing fine. I now know that they should have company but I'm kinda worried that will stress him out. Do you think I should get more? My other problem is that he is in a ten gallon tank and I'm not sure how many corys I can put in it. The only other fish in the tank are three male guppies.

 

[juwelfan]

I've had an Emerald Green cory all by himself for three years and he has been doing fine. I now know that they should have company but I'm kinda worried that will stress him out. Do you think I should get more? My other problem is that he is in a ten gallon tank and I'm not sure how many corys I can put in it. The only other fish in the tank are three male guppies.

If it were my tank i'd stick another one in. Panda or Agazzi (sp.) or Scwar*** (sp.) are nice. Wow, you can really tell i'm an expert.


schwartzii thats the one...!

 

[LisaLQ]

If you're going to put another in, there's no point putting in a completely different species - then you'll just have two unhappy cories!

I'd get another two bronzes (assuming you emerald greens are bronzes and not brochis splendens!), and just make sure you keep up with the maintenance and keep an eye on nitrates - should be fine though

 

[55gal]

yup I looked at some pictures and he is a bronze, sorry Emerald green is what petco said. So one more would not be too much, then I'll get one. I was also wondering if I have to get the same species of cory, not for this tank but I have a 55 gallon downstairs with two Agassizi corys and I want to get more so was wondering if I should get the same species. also how do you sex the Agassizi corys?

 

[LisaLQ]

Yeah I'd get a couple more, cories need to be in groups of 3 at least, so rather than just one more bronze for your little tank too, I'd get two - it wont make a huge difference on your bioload, I'm sure it'd cope

No good with sexing advice, I'll leave that one for the experts...

 

[ghent_3rd]

I'm not an expert and have never bred any corys but have done a lot of reading on them.

Generally spaking female corys are broader and generally more robust if viewed from aabove. I'm sure somebody will elaborate on this and I'm not sure how easy it is to sex them at a young age.

Hope this helps?

 

[reg]

At the Petcos and Petsmarts where I go, they call Brochis Emerald Green Cories, but the scientific name is Brochis.

yup I looked at some pictures and he is a bronze, sorry Emerald green is what petco said. So one more would not be too much, then I'll get one. I was also wondering if I have to get the same species of cory, not for this tank but I have a 55 gallon downstairs with two Agassizi corys and I want to get more so was wondering if I should get the same species. also how do you sex the Agassizi corys?

 

[Coryman]

Just to separate the so called emerald Corys, her are a couple of pictures. The first is Brochis splendens this has 11 rays in the dorsal fin.

This is Corydoras aeneus the "Bronze Cory" clearly showing how it got it's name form the colour of weathered bronze. This species is easy to tell from the Brochis even when you are looking at small specimens, because the C. aeneus has only 7 or 8 dorsal fin rays.

In a 55 US Gallon tank with hardly any other residents you could quite comfortably house 6 or 8 C. aeneus or 6 B. splendens. These fish are always best kept in small groups of there own kind, that is the same species. Keeping several single species specimens in a group can result in cross breeding. Sexing is not always easy and viewing from above will show a female to be not only plumper but also they are usually overall a bigger fish. having said that it's not that easy to look at fish in a dealers tank from above, so the other area to look at are the ventral or pelvic fins, ith the male they are generally elongated and slightly pointed and in females wider and fan shaped.

Ian