eep! quick question on cory cats

[pica_nuttalli]

so i went home this weekend and on my way back to school, i stopped off to look at fish anyways, the LFS had all these itty-bitty cory cats and i just had to get them. so i bought 6 bronze corys and 3 pandas -- all about 1 inch long.

well about 30 minutes down the road it hit me that the tank i'm running now is 2 feet deep or about 24 times their body length. i'm guessing that this is a very bad thing seeing how corys need to gulp a little air every so often.

so:

(1) am i right and this is a problem? then i guess i could just restart my 5 gallon until they get a bit bigger.

(2) or am i right but its not a huge problem? could i just add two or three more airstones to increase aeration and "elevators" to the surface?

any advice from anyone would be appreciated; i'd like to resolve the quandry in the next few hours otherwise, i'm going to assume case #1 and go to a lot of trouble... not that i don't deserve it for impulse purchasing...

 

[Dwarfs]

Do you think cories live in 1' deep rivers in south america? They should be fine

 

[Erised]

They should be fine, I would however put in a couple of airstones (actually, 1 good one should do the trick) to make sure there's enough oxygen in the tank ... it will at least lower the amount of times they'll go up

Dont worry about it too much though.

 

[pica_nuttalli]

yeah, well dumb*** me almost forgot about a quarantine period, so they'll just live in a bucket with an airstone and elderly filter material for a bit.

should i add methylene blue or melafix, or would that result in too much a build-up of ammonia (since both are anti-bacterials and would ruin the n-cycle)?