Corys

[atmmachine816]

do you need to count corys or plecos when you do a count for inches of fish in your tank i know a silly question but i really want to konw thanks

 

[love_fish]

Personally, i dont because they have a small waste production, they are small, and stay at the botom out of any other fishes way in a different part of the tank. I do consider other fish that will interact with them though.

 

[dwarfgourami]

Personally, i dont because they have a small waste production, they are small, and stay at the botom out of any other fishes way in a different part of the tank. I do consider other fish that will interact with them though.

plecos a small waste production??? They're some of the worst poopers in the hobby! (well, among the common fish anyway). I would count them as more than an inch per inch as it were. As for corys, they count as slimbodied fish, which is exactly what the inch/gallon rule is designed for- they don't poo less than say a small tetra.

Then again, of course, the inch/gallon rule is not set in stone: in a mature decent-sized tank, with good filtration and a good maintenance routine, in the hands of an experienced fishkeeper, you can stretch it like elastic. And as lovefish suggests, other factors, like space and interaction between fish are equally important when stocking a tank.
But I would definitely count plecs as waste producers.

 

[bogwood]

Personally, i dont because they have a small waste production, they are small, and stay at the botom out of any other fishes way in a different part of the tank. I do consider other fish that will interact with them though.

... Plecs poop big-time... and though Corys may be small, they still poop too...

... you still have to consider this when working out tank stock/waste production...

... it has nothing to do with where they stay in the tank either...

 

[Inchworm]

Hi atmmachine

While I don't believe that the "inch per gallon" rule should be absolute, it's as good a place to start as any.

Corys produce the same amount of waste products as any other fish that eats the same amount of food as they do. It's not always as obvious though because corys don't trail it behind them. Instead, they make little black turds that may sometimes be seen floating on top of laying on the bottom. After a short while they break up and are filtered out.

Plecos, on the other hand, do produce lots of poop and should not be considered as equal if using the rule.

 

[love_fish]

Sorry, i didnt see that he wrote plecs, so i wrote that based on corys.