Normal?

[FishFanatic04]

I have 8 albino cories and they all seem to be nuts!!! They are supposed to be bottom feeders right? They are flapping around the left side glass and it looks so frantic? My water tests are showing what it should: 0 ammonia 0 nitrite about 20 nitrate. help?

 

[Cazgar]

I just got some albinos & mine are very active up & down the tank top to bottom.
They tend to spend the evenings at the bottom & during the day they swim all over the tank

 

[FishFanatic04]

Oh! what a relief. thnx for the quick answer. I'm such a paranoid fish momma! lol

 

[Fishy friend2]

It is absolutely fine. It is actually good that you see that behaviour, meaning that they are happy ad active

 

[FishFanatic04]

Probably working off their dinner. Been adding new varieties of food everyday... thnx!

 

[Fishy friend2]

Cool! It's great that your cories are showing behaviour like that. My pygmies aren't nearly as active as your albino cories

 

[FishFanatic04]

Are pygmys cute though? They stay small?

 

[Cazgar]

Mine go mad for the shrimp food, poor shrimps only get the leftovers.
I have some habrosus dwarf/pygmies & they're very quiet, they stay hidden quite a lot

 

[Fishy friend2]

Yeah dwarf cories are often only very active, and in the open all the time when in groups of 12+ IME

 

[Cazgar]

That could explain it as I have only 6

 

[FishFanatic04]

oh the pics of them that I just looked at are soooo adorable. They have cute little faces. I'll stick with my crazy albinos though

Oh one more ? Are the trilineatus and Jullii cories as wild as the albinos?


Thanks for the replies!

 

[Harlequins]

Most cories are wild

 

[Cazgar]

Can't answer you about the julii & trillineatus but my sanchesi are very active too.
My peppered have their moments when they all have a mad half hour zooming round the tank
I'm fast becoming a cory addict lol

 

[Fishy friend2]

Most cories are wild

 

[Harlequins]

Yes Tri's are just has bad

I have 15 pygmies and they still hide unless its feeding time or they want to shoal with the harleys, i find with the the pygmys & hastatus are shy, and wary of more active fish...

The habrosus which do grow larger than the other dwarfs,do tend to get more adventurous the older they get,mine like hanging out with the trilineatus.