Fighting

[roseykat5]

i have 4 gold emerald corydora .... i found out y one now 2 has a scrap on face area ... i witness a very aggressive fight of all 4 together with mouths and spinning around each other ... what is going on with them

 

[adgo]

i have 4 gold emerald corydora .... i found out y one now 2 has a scrap on face area ... i witness a very aggressive fight of all 4 together with mouths and spinning around each other ... what is going on with them

i cant say ive ever seen any of my corys fight. theyre one of the most peaceful fish ive ever seen. what are the dimensions of the tank theyre in? maybe its territorial

 

[Bozza]

Im very surprised that they are fighting...... I wonder what is wrong

 

[jollysue]

Are you sure they are Emerald Cories/ Brochis Splendens? Sounds more like loaches--although most of the community Loaches/Botia only tussle, not really fight. I have never even seen my Synos fight.

 

[Bozza]

Ive seen my yoyos tussle and sorta fight. Well the chase eachother and stop and sorta hit eachother and then they both go a really light colour its weird.

 

[jollysue]

Yeah! My queens and zebras do, too, but I've never seen more than tumbleing over each other with the emeralds or any Cories. Emeralds are big clumsy brutes running for cover, shy but not aggressive.

So don't have a clue what could be up with your fish, roseykat. You have unsusual Corey problems!

 

[ghostchoir]

Eek, I hope that doesn't happen with mine. Mine are extremely peaceful and friendly towards, well, everything. Is this something that only happens in emeralds? Because my jullis and pandas are lovely.

 

[roseykat5]

well for the longest time ive had for 2 mths and they were all fine .. thats what it says at the petstore ... i cant get a clear pics of it but it has a band across the body from head to tail is almost blackish brown like a bronze and the top on my biggest gives of a reddish tint to it would this help and its almost 3inches long tahts it and as for tank mates its got plenty of room to hide and stuff i got lots of plants in the back of the tank and 2 things in the tank along with a rock in the middle of hte tank that they can hide under when i first got them they were very skittish in the ten gal i moved them to 90 gal and they are much better and now it seems that they fight so i was wondering and thought it was strange for a while i thought it was a mating ritual but they were mouth to mouth and really fighting i said wow thats strange if they were people they were really punching each out out like really pissed off .. now im worried to what going on and dont tell me i got strange tankmates either

 

[jollysue]

I have 5, and they are nothing like that. I have had them over a year. Like I said: Big clumsy cowards. The color and markings don't sound right either.

Mouth fighting is a Cichlid thing, not a Catfish thing that I ever saw or heard of. Yeah get a picture. It sounds territorial. Catfish like Cories and Brochis are not territorial. Maybe some kind of Aspidoras. They are territorial. LPS are famous for mislabeling.

 

[Barracuda518]

I have never heard of corydoras fighting. They like to be together and need to be kept that way to thrive. Im with everyone else, sounds like make a loach/botia thing. They will regularly get into squabbles to decide whose boss. That is normal. A picture of the fish you are talking about will definately solve the problem.

 

[roseykat5]

can u give me a pic of it ,, mine just wont pose 4 pics all i got is my swartzi cory

at least i think it is ... the others i cant get a pic off

 

[dwarfgourami]

I have never heard of corydoras fighting. They like to be together and need to be kept that way to thrive. Im with everyone else, sounds like make a loach/botia thing. They will regularly get into squabbles to decide whose boss. That is normal. A picture of the fish you are talking about will definately solve the problem.

Wasn't there something in PFK about a species of aggressive, non-schooling corydoras? Or where did I read it? Somewhere quite recently. And it did surprise me because I'd just assumed that all corys were the same...goes off to look for mag...and fails to find it... would it have been then semiaquilus?

 

[roseykat5]

ok i just looked in the files of what cory u have and it looks on page 7 i think a aneus something like that it has a greenish bronze with red tinge on the back area if u went and look thats what he looks like i have four of them and thats what i mean the front face now scraped the 2 and i have had 2 biggest always stayed toghet i assummed male and female goes up and down and seem them do a t but no breeding asn been seen at least no eggs was found and i doubt would be any if htye do it at nite the other fish would eat it

 

[Barracuda518]

I have never heard of corydoras fighting. They like to be together and need to be kept that way to thrive. Im with everyone else, sounds like make a loach/botia thing. They will regularly get into squabbles to decide whose boss. That is normal. A picture of the fish you are talking about will definately solve the problem.

Wasn't there something in PFK about a species of aggressive, non-schooling corydoras? Or where did I read it? Somewhere quite recently. And it did surprise me because I'd just assumed that all corys were the same...goes off to look for mag...and fails to find it... would it have been then semiaquilus?

Definately not Corydoras semiaquilus. I have found they are one of the more shy cories. They just get bigger. I just dont think its a corydoras thats in question, its mostly likely something else.

ok i just looked in the files of what cory u have and it looks on page 7 i think a aneus something like that it has a greenish bronze with red tinge on the back area if u went and look thats what he looks like i have four of them and thats what i mean the front face now scraped the 2 and i have had 2 biggest always stayed toghet i assummed male and female goes up and down and seem them do a t but no breeding asn been seen at least no eggs was found and i doubt would be any if htye do it at nite the other fish would eat it

What page 7 are you talking about? And you have seen them actually fighting? If not, the scrapes could also be a result of bad water conditions causing them to "flash" and rub against the substrate.

 

[jollysue]

Cories can also rub their noses trying to move and get under something to get at food.

There is a nice Emerald Cory/Brochis splendens on this page near the bottom on Amunet's post. here

Barracuda has some nice pics of his somewhere.

Planet Catfish has good pics.

I have never seen a bronze fight either. I know some aspidoras are territorial and do not school, because I asked Bryan about some he had. Barracuda, you know more about these...?