Pets At Home - Absolute Rubbish..

[Fishkeeper2004]

Well, I have seen pictures of Inchworms tanks and I see he has many corys within the same tank. I have a 180L (still cycling) and I enquired at PetsAtHome about there bronze cories.

This lad gaves us some information, and said they ONLY ate algea, and no more than two can be kept in any tank at the same time. Being polite, I simply acknowledged his information and left the shop. This really must prove how poor they are?

I know they are meant to be schooling fish and are best kept with 6 OR MORE of there own species. And especially in a 180 litre, am I right in saying I could easily keep 15.. or more?

 

[Mr.September15]

I know I love inchworms cory tank. So much nice and coryish...



-Arrowhead

 

[Inchworm]

Hi Fishkeeper2004

That sales person is entirely misinformed about the way to keep corydoras. They are schooling fish and NEED to be kept in groups. The bigger the school, the better they like it.

They eat a balanced diet but it should have a good amount of protein. I feed mine blackworms, freeze dried tubifex, Hikari wafers or Wardley's spirulina discs, and a high protein content flake food (Ocean Nutrition's Formula One). If they are expected to live on algae and leftovers food from other fish, they will not do well at all.

Here's a picture of my grow out tank with the batch of corys I just sold to my lfs:

That tank is a 55 gallon and it is now home to my cold water corys. It has 6 wild caught C. aeneus, 8 C. robinae, 4 green lazers and 5 melanotaenia in it. Some people would think it's overstocked, since the C. aeneus and C. robinae are good sized fish, but if I keep an eye on it to be sure the nitrate doesn't rise, they will be just fine.

I just checked and 180L converts to about 46.8 US gallons. I don't see why you couldn't keep the 15 corys in it, and perhaps more. Just monitor your parameters and add any additional ones a little at a time.



BTW, I'm not a "he," I'm a lady.

 

[Barracuda518]

Hi Fishkeeper2004

That sales person is entirely misinformed about the way to keep corydoras. They are schooling fish and NEED to be kept in groups. The bigger the school, the better they like it.

They eat a balanced diet but it should have a good amount of protein. I feed mine blackworms, freeze dried tubifex, Hikari wafers or Wardley's spirulina discs, and a high protein content flake food (Ocean Nutrition's Formula One). If they are expected to live on algae and leftovers food from other fish, they will not do well at all.

Here's a picture of my grow out tank with the batch of corys I just sold to my lfs:

That tank is a 55 gallon and it is now home to my cold water corys. It has 6 wild caught C. aeneus, 8 C. robinae, 4 green lazers and 5 melanotaenia in it. Some people would think it's overstocked, since the C. aeneus and C. robinae are good sized fish, but if I keep an eye on it to be sure the nitrate doesn't rise, they will be just fine.



I just checked and 180L converts to about 46.8 US gallons. I don't see why you couldn't keep the 15 corys in it, and perhaps more. Just monitor your parameters and add any additional ones a little at a time.



BTW, I'm not a "he," I'm a lady.

Now thats a lot of cories

Very nice

EDIT: Are all your cory tanks wide open like that? Maybe I need to make mine like that.

 

[Fishkeeper2004]

Hi Fishkeeper2004

That sales person is entirely misinformed about the way to keep corydoras. They are schooling fish and NEED to be kept in groups. The bigger the school, the better they like it.

They eat a balanced diet but it should have a good amount of protein. I feed mine blackworms, freeze dried tubifex, Hikari wafers or Wardley's spirulina discs, and a high protein content flake food (Ocean Nutrition's Formula One). If they are expected to live on algae and leftovers food from other fish, they will not do well at all.

Here's a picture of my grow out tank with the batch of corys I just sold to my lfs:

That tank is a 55 gallon and it is now home to my cold water corys. It has 6 wild caught C. aeneus, 8 C. robinae, 4 green lazers and 5 melanotaenia in it. Some people would think it's overstocked, since the C. aeneus and C. robinae are good sized fish, but if I keep an eye on it to be sure the nitrate doesn't rise, they will be just fine.

I just checked and 180L converts to about 46.8 US gallons. I don't see why you couldn't keep the 15 corys in it, and perhaps more. Just monitor your parameters and add any additional ones a little at a time.



BTW, I'm not a "he," I'm a lady.

Thanks for the help Inchworm. I have read corys will also do well on frozen bloodworm, and will also accept flake foods to? Is that correct?

 

[Inchworm]

Hi Fishkeeper2004

Corys are usually good eaters and will take most anything you give them. Please spend a little more and look for a good brand of flake. The one I use has 54.6% min. protein content. I get it at an independent lfs (not the chain stores) and it costs a little bit more, but it is well worth it, IMHO.

The reason I try to avoid frozen foods is that if any remain uneaten, they spoil very fast and rot in the tank. This is a perfect medium for harmful bacteria to grow on. I think more corys die from bacterial infections than any other reason, so I'm cautious about doing anything that could result in one starting in a tank. That said, I do use them when I can't get the live worms, and I wouldn't advise you not to. Just be cautious and give small feedings often rather than big portions all at once.

 

[Fishkeeper2004]

Hi Fishkeeper2004

Corys are usually good eaters and will take most anything you give them. Please spend a little more and look for a good brand of flake. The one I use has 54.6% min. protein content. I get it at an independent lfs (not the chain stores) and it costs a little bit more, but it is well worth it, IMHO.

The reason I try to avoid frozen foods is that if any remain uneaten, they spoil very fast and rot in the tank. This is a perfect medium for harmful bacteria to grow on. I think more corys die from bacterial infections than any other reason, so I'm cautious about doing anything that could result in one starting in a tank. That said, I do use them when I can't get the live worms, and I wouldn't advise you not to. Just be cautious and give small feedings often rather than big portions all at once.

Ok thanks for your help. As I now know, they need to be kept with 6 or more of their own species, how many can I introduce at once? I don't want too many that it will increase ammonia and cause unecassary deaths, but I don't want to purchase too few and for them to be shy.

 

[Inchworm]

Hi Fishkeeper2004

You are doing a fishless cycle, aren't you? If so, I don't think I should advise you on that. I've never done it that way myself.

 

[Fishkeeper2004]

Hi Fishkeeper2004

You are doing a fishless cycle, aren't you? If so, I don't think I should advise you on that. I've never done it that way myself.

Oh no! If you think im adding them now your misunderstood. I am just finding out, for when the tank is fully cycled thats all. They wont be purchased until after the festive period.

 

[emma12321]

Hi,

Pets at home don't actually know anything about any of the fish they sell. The tanks and fish are provided by an outside source and the staff just bag em and sell em. I was talking to one of the staff in Wakefield and he knew nothing about any of the fish he just said they were told to point out the info labels on the tanks if customers enquired. Most of the labels are wrong.

They have a community setup tank in wakefield about 3 feet long with about 10, 7 inch plus tinfoil barbs, 10 or so clown loaches, 6 inch plus silver sharks and about 20 other fish rammed in there oooh almost missed the (i think i counted 9) 11 inch plus common and sailfin plecs. When i was in there a couple were looking at the cute baby common plecs which are something like 3 for £5. When i pointed out the 11 inch ones that weren't full grown they changed their minds.

Emma