gravel for cories

[lesley]

I was wondering what type of gravel everyone uses for their cories. Right now, I have a sort of tiny pea gravel in my tank, but it seems a little bit big for my cories to dig around in. To remedy that, I put a small dish in the tank with fine sand in it so that they can dig around there when I feed them.

Do people use Fluorite with their cories in a planted tank? How does that work as far as size? If I ever get a 55 gallon tank for plants and cories, I want to start the right way.

[optix]

I use silica sand, but my tanks don't have live plants.

[lesley]

That seems to be my quandry, optix. Sand fine enough to keep the cories happy, but large enough to have a deeper substrate for plants. There must be something out there? Or maybe I will have to divide the bottom out between plants and sandy areas.

[Tim Bo]

This is what I have done before, though I usually end up mixing the sand and gravel together after a few months. Cories seem to love shifting through sand...

[somefinnfishy]

I use large stone gravel like 3/8-5/8 and just got long nose corys.
They seem to love picking under/between the rocks.

[Mantis_22]

i use 15 pounds of 3mm natural gravel with 4 pounds of Play Sand. Cories and loaches seem to like it so I rock it. :D