Cory's And Dwarves

[Soup21]

if i have 6 bolivian rams in a 55 gallon, growing out together, is it possible to have a school of cories? I was originally planning on doing placo's but would rather have another school. I'm just curious if having 12 or so fish all in the bottom would be an issue?

 

[TekFish]

Depending on the length of the tank I would say that 6 Bolivian rams are too many. If you decided to do that then it would have to be 2 male and 4 female. As for the corydoras, they'd probably be fine although I've never kept rams, so maybe someone else can add?

TekFish

 

[Inchworm]

if i have 6 bolivian rams in a 55 gallon, growing out together, is it possible to have a school of cories?

Of course it's possible, but if you like corys, even a little, you don't want to keep them in a tank with rams or other cichlids. Corys are peaceful and unable to defend themselves. Even the stress caused by being in a tank with aggressive fish is enough to weaken their immune systems. Cichlids also tend to pick their eyes out.

 

[Sammy1911]

+2
i had a single gbr female and a pair of apistos with 6 corys and the corys disappeared one by one... i mean 'disappeared' too! considered they're supposed to be armoured all i was left with the skeletal structure in the morning cant say for certain it was the cichlids but the only other fish i had were: danios, neons and sae's....