My New Panda Cory!

[captain jack]

Sorry to hear about your pandas.I have 4 of these little guys and they are so cute with 2 peppered and they get along just great they will shoal then break up and swim around on thier own but the pandas will stay together it looks so cool

 

[jollysue]

I stopped by my LPS Thursday to pick up the meds for the neons. Of course I stopped by to look at the fish. They had some small pandas, that I am sure are farm bred. There were numerous dead ones. I felt so sad. If you want pandas and you are in the States, at the very least go to AquaBid and bid on a package from a breeder or importer.. Although it may cost more initially (and I am not sure of this--I have seen some nice offerings with reasonable shipping), it will be worth while in the long run.

I stopped to see my LF albino peppers. It was sad to see them there in the gravel and looking longingly at me. I hope someone buys them soon and takes them home. They looked very small and didn't show up well.

 

[Fishpool]

I bought 7 pandas and although the water was fine I lost 6 over two weeks. The remaining cory panda is now fully grown and I want to have a small shoal but I am concerned about the fragility of young pandas. I recently added a clown loach and they are now best friends! Is that unusual? They both need more of their own kind but they seem completley attatched to each other. They lie together and swim together. Any thoughts?

 

[jollysue]

I have heard that the loach can be too rough as they get older.

Check some different sources for your pandas. Wild pandas and pandas bred in the aquarium by decent breeders are not sensitive. It is the fish that are bred enmass with hormones and mass breeding practices that are sensitive. They are also smaller, but they are not as hardy.

If you are in the States, Aquabid is a good source. Aquariaman, Coriologist, and CorysRUs all have pandas up, I believe, and are excellent sources.

If you are in the UK, ebay and Trimar are good sources I understand. As Alex and Carmen said, if you are getting them from the lps/lfs then watch them and look for good hardy specimens--doesn't hurt to ask what the source was.

 

[I Love my fishies]

Sorry to hear about your little Pandas

 

[Catfish Jack]

sorry for your loss. my dad went to pick up some of these for me today while he was out of town, unfortunaly the guy at the store gave him peppered instead. im dissapointed, you think this store(pets land) will take these back?

 

[jollysue]

Many will take them back. There is a good chance they will. But on the other hand peppers are an excellent and hardy species. They are also relatively easy to breed and so are a good starter Cory. It may be a blessing in disguise. Really, lps pandas can be much more difficult to keep.

 

[Bozza]

Peppers are alot hardier then pandas. There are a few different species like C121, Adolfi, Matae that are coloured abit similar to Panda's. But are more expensive obviously. The wild pandas vs farm pandas is always a frequently discussed topic.