Corydora Catfish, Any Other Fish Keepers

[AllenK RGV]

Length X width X height, divided by 231= us gallons.

in inches I'm pretty sure.

 

[lazy gardener]

I used to be very involved with fresh water tanks: breeding angel fish, selling live bearers, plants, and angels to the pet stores. CO2 supplementation for plant growth, had to pull a bucket of plants out of my tanks about every month to keep things in balance.

I really enjoyed those tanks, but gave them up to invest in a new hobby: chickening.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Corys are very social and do need to be in schools. It is best to provide schools of each species you wish to keep as they do prefer their own kind and there can be certain social intricacies that vary between species - they *will* school with those of other species, but it is not optimal.

 

[AllenK RGV]

I used to be very involved with fresh water tanks: breeding angel fish, selling live bearers, plants, and angels to the pet stores. CO2 supplementation for plant growth, had to pull a bucket of plants out of my tanks about every month to keep things in balance.

I really enjoyed those tanks, but gave them up to invest in a new hobby: chickening.

See and I gave it up because hauling around a 120gal aquarium was just too much of a pain.

 

[User395221]

Despite the "fish descriptions" my cories were independent and never seemed to school. They spread out over the whole tank. (having said that, all of my fish were picked to be "nice", so they never would have made the cories feel like they should huddle to stay safe). I never saw any aggression from bigger cories to smaller ones, new ones to older ones. They are the best fish ever, IMO. I love cories

 

[Granny Hatchet]

in inches I'm pretty sure.

yes, in inches. My bad

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Corys are very social and do need to be in schools. It is best to provide schools of each species you wish to keep as they do prefer their own kind and there can be certain social intricacies that vary between species - they *will* school with those of other species, but it is not optimal.

Mare, I kick my butt once a month for not getting your angels and a bigger tank.

 

[Chickielady]

I used to be very involved with fresh water tanks: breeding angel fish, selling live bearers, plants, and angels to the pet stores. CO2 supplementation for plant growth, had to pull a bucket of plants out of my tanks about every month to keep things in balance.

I really enjoyed those tanks, but gave them up to invest in a new hobby: chickening.

I had the same, lots of fresh water tropical and outside we had an entire koi farm.
Now I am on restriction and just have a 20 gallon, and 2 albino corys, and 2 teddy corys (striped like a zebra) and a few others, including a pleco, and they all get along, although every 6 mo I have to return my pleco to the fish store, (as he is too big !) and get another baby pleco....

 

[lazy gardener]

Despite the "fish descriptions" my cories were independent and never seemed to school. They spread out over the whole tank. (having said that, all of my fish were picked to be "nice", so they never would have made the cories feel like they should huddle to stay safe). I never saw any aggression from bigger cories to smaller ones, new ones to older ones. They are the best fish ever, IMO. I love cories

How big was your tank? I never saw cory's schooling either. IMO, they need a big tank in order to really see that behavior to an appreciable extent. I even raised zebra fish on several occasions. When I'd clean the gravel, if I left the bucket of water to sit for a few days, there would be dozens of zebra fry in the bucket. They were barely visible, looked like a tiny little sliver of black glass hanging on the side of the bucket. They found enough to eat in the microscopic critters living in the substrate and on the plants until they got big enough to take brine shrimp and pulverized fish flake. Then, they grew pretty rapidly.

 

[DaviJones]

So sorry, I could have sworn I wrote a response earlier, but my tank is 20 gallons using the formula.