Will Different Breeds Of Cory's School Together?

[Jozlyn]

My LFS has Bronze, Albino and Peppered Cory's, will these guys school together or do I have to get 3 "of a kind"? I've worked out that they all end up about the same size and they all like pretty much the same water parameters.

Also, what is the best thing to feed them?

Thanks

 

[Jozlyn]

Hello??? Anybody???

 

[rubberdubber]

I have 2 bronze, 2 peppered, 2 clown loaches, all will only stay in their own pairs.
perhaps they use a different language and dont understand each other.

 

[brittlestar]

I have 3 peppereds (a breeding pair and their baby) and 1 bronze. They all get on and the bronze often hangs around with the baby and talks to him

 

[mollymad]

I have two pepper and two bronze corydoras and I do believe they enjoy the company of others. They dont live in each others pockets but I have seen mine feeding together (taking advantage of someone else doing all the digging) and if you catch them in the morning before the lights come on and disturb them they are more often than not all resting close together.

 

[Barracuda518]

Actually, Bronze cories and peppered cories like different temperatures of water. Peppered cories like cooler water and bronze like a little bit warmer water.

Its best to get one of the same kind, like say, 4-6 bronze or 4-6 peppered cories. If you want to see them at their best, then you need to keep them in groups of 6 or more.

I feed my cories Ocean Nutrition Flake Food (flavored with brine shrimp), Hikari sinking wafers, Tetramin Tropical Tablets, Hikari Algae wafers, spriualla disks, Ken's Earthworm Sticks, Boyd's Vita Diet, and frozen bloodworms. They dont get this all at one time of course. This is the diet I have them on, they get something different everyday.

 

[brittlestar]

Actually, Bronze cories and peppered cories like different temperatures of water. Peppered cories like cooler water and bronze like a little bit warmer water.

Its best to get one of the same kind, like say, 4-6 bronze or 4-6 peppered cories. If you want to see them at their best, then you need to keep them in groups of 6 or more.

Mine have never looked unhappy or been ill so I'm not sure the temp is really that crucial.....

 

[fishboy619]

i wouldnt get one of each cory, they like species of their own kind. maybe 2 of each would be happy, they have their own kind and other species to shoal with if they want to.

 

[Bozza]

I have some sterbai and peppers. They all get along quite well.