how many cories for a 10g?

[steppy104]

no really seemed able to give me a sure answer in the betta area, so they told me to visit this area...

i have 1 male betta in the 10g, an apple snail, and an emerald cory....someone mentioned cories might get lonely by themselves, so i wanted to know how many more i can get....

actually, the overall question, is will 3 cories work? i can live with 2, since that seems ok...but is 3 OK?

and if it is, i was planning on an albino and spotted cory...is that all good?

the 10g is filtered and heated, and not much decor....a fake small animal skull and some gargoyle tank piece.

thanks

 

[The-Wolf]

3 would be ok, depending on the species of cory that is.

 

[FoundMoney]

Steppy has an emerald cory so I assume he would want two more of those. They seem to be a rather large fish as far as corys go, but I don't want to say if it's too much. Being a beginner, I am probably more cautious about overstocking than most.

 

[coryd]

3 cories would be fine. Make sure you get two more emeralds. My present cory "experiment" is proving that cories of different species don't school togetther. They are quite robust and fun to watch in a trio as well.

 

[steppy104]

before i read this, i went and got 1 more....i'll go for another one maybe tomorrow or later since 3 is ok.

but anyway, my emerald is following the new one i got, which is a spotted cory, and they are staying together. so maybe it depends on the cory and how desperate they are to be with another. or maybe the emerald feels safe being with another cory no matter what the species because he only has one eye i forgot to mention that...i didn't know he had 1 eye when i bought him, but found out later on. it doesn't affect him much, and the eye looks like it's been healed over for a while. but anyway, the 2 different species are sticking by eachother, and i was thinking about an albino.

they don't fight, do they? i didn't think so, but i'm not sure. thanks for the replys

 

[coryd]

I never heard of an aggressive cory. Maybe they will hang since they have no other options. The cat with 1 eye probably can't tell the diff anyway LOL.

 

[steppy104]

lol. maybe. so then, i'm gonna go ahead with an albino and hope none of them realise they're really different....or maybe i should go with that other kind with dalmation spots (i couldn't pronounce it) cuz maybe they'll see the albino as completely different and reject him...dunno. what other kinds of cories are there? so far i've seen spotted, albino, emerald green, and the kind i can't pronounce....any more?

 

[clutterydrawer]

there are probably over a hundred types of cory. look on planetcatfish.com at the list of scientific names, and look at al lthe ones beginning with corydoras. that's how many there are!

 

[steppy104]

oh yay....now to find what my petstore has. lol.

 

[TorPeteO]

Most communities of cory species will be alright together.

Don't worry about your one-eye, either. My girlfriend chooses the one-eyes on purpose, because she feels bad for them. She also bought a blind (i.e. no-eye) albino recently, and it's doing fine. It's really cute, too...just swims around in circles, bumping into things (even the rams in her tank, which don't like it very much).

 

[steppy104]

lol. sounds funny but sad....i'm not sure wether to laugh thinking about a fish doing that, or feel bad for it because it don't know what it's doin....

maybe i'll get a panda....or the unpronouncable kind....who knows...

 

[Inchworm]

Hi steppy

I'm glad to learn that you are getting some corys for your tank. They seem to work out very well with bettas. I have bettas in some of my cory tanks and I find that the bettas find the corys amusing and give them something to do with themselves instead of just hanging out.

I would suggest you get a cave for the corys. They are actually nocturnal fish who have poor eyes and sometimes they need a place to get out of the light for a while.
Three rocks with a piece of slate across the top of them makes a nice cave and is inexpensive to put together.

Now, what you might want to do is check our this link to see if your "emerald" cory is actually a bronze cory that they sometimes call a green cory, or if it is an Emerald Green Brochis, which looks like a cory but is bigger:

http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/calli...ochis/114_f.php

This is the bronze C. aeneus, which is the same fish as the albino you have mentioned, just a color variation:

http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/calli...rydora/51_f.php

Either way, I would not recommend adding a panda. Pandas are much smaller and might not school with the larger fish. They are quite delicate too and very sensitive to less than perfect water conditions.

If you have good filtration, and do regular water changes and bottom cleanings, I think you could go to as many as 5 corys in your tank.

Why not get some more albinos or bronze C.aeneus? If you do, they are more likely to spawn for you than the other species, and little corys are the greatest!

 

[steppy104]

mines the emerald green....looks just like that.

and i don't know if i want little corys....they'd end up AKA betta treats! lol. well then, i'll take a trip to the pet store and tell ya'll what i decide on

 

[steppy104]

how do you tell the sex of a bronze cory?

 

[Dwarfs]

Are you sure you have a cory or do you have Brochis splendens, often sold as emerald cories? The brochis get a little bigger, but are pretty much the same as cories

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Has that already been poined out? Oops