Just got a trio of Panda Cories

[Teelie]

And I put them in with my other cories in my 30 gallon. As near as I can guess, I now have 18-20 or so of them in there which is more than I realized so some are going to move into my Khuli tank if it becomes a problem. I have two filters running, one a bio wheel and both rated to filter up to 60 gallon tanks so I've got plenty of filtration and a lot of decorations for them to hide in but I'm going to get more to help with the relieving some of the crampness in the current hiding spots. I keep up with water changes and I am always looking for signs of stress, disease or other problems.

So am I too overstocked even for Cories or are they going to live okay with the number now? With most fish I would never even attempt this number but Cories being so clean and sociable I stretched the limits. As I said, I have a 10g Khuli tank I can move some to if there are going to be stress issues. I feed them a wide variety of flake, sinking pellet, frozen and freeze dried foods as well as fresh veggies when I remember. There are also 5 Black Neons but they stick to the upper levels of the tank.

I should stress this is the absolute maximum number of fish going in there without taking some out first. I want to get more Schwartzi and Skunks, when I have space.

These are the species in there I can think of offhand :
Albino Bronze: 6-7
Schwartzii: 2
False Julii: 3
Peppered: 3
Panda: 3
Skunk: 1 (bought him out of pity being the only with one other albino cory and been unable to get more so far)

 

[Inchworm]

Hi Teelie

You are a bit overstocked, but if you do an extra water change mid-week, you will probably be OK.

If you want to move some corys into your other tank, let me suggest that if it has been established for a while, your corys might be more comfortable there than in your big tank with the larger corys.

After a lot of experimenting, I moved my pandas into an old 20 gallon long tank that still has fine gravel instead of sand. The only fish in with them are the dwarf corys, C. habrosus and C. pygmaeus, a couple of otos and some very young black corys and fancy C. paleateus. They are actually the largest fish in there and they are comfortable with that, although they were timid around any of the larger (full grown) corys.

It's easier to do the extra water changes that they seem to need to keep healthy in the smaller tank too. I've found that even a little uneaten food, especially frozen bloodworms, will cause an outbreak of bacterial infection. When pandas get sick, they don't last long, so prevention is well worth the effort.

 

[Teelie]

(Un)Fortunately as it is I have a ratio of 10 to 1 with malaysian trumpet snails and pond snails in that tank and there is rarely if ever left over food. I am wanting to move some of them to the Khuli tank though I have just found out how to get my Khulis to come out of hiding (brighter lights of all things) so I don't want to scare them back in with more fish just yet. I will move at least a trio in with the Khulis once I think they've acclimated. All of my tanks save one (reserved for shellies) are well established tanks of a year or more too. I am still thinking of moving some in with my Clowns and Shark but I'm concerned about aggression and limited floor space in that tank.