I currently have a Spotted Corydora that is doing a great job keeping my Mollie/Platy fry numbers down, but I read somewhere that they like to have company. My LFS is getting some Corydoras in next week and have offered me an Albino Corydora. Has anyone out there any experience of this variety to give me some advice. Thanks
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Corydoras don't go after fry (incidently the singular is Corydoras, not Corydora - last syllable rhymes with "gas"); I suspect it's eating ones which die anyway. The Albinos are just varieties of peppered and bronze species, and behave the same way.
They should not be kept singly; they are sociable fish which require company of their own kind.
They should not be kept singly; they are sociable fish which require company of their own kind.
Thanks for the grammar lesson. What is eating my fry then? Apart from the adult Mollies and Platys I also have neons and glowlights. I guess they are all tucking in. I was sold the Corydoras specifically to keep the numbers down! Nevertheless I love him/her anyway and will get a friend for company.
All those fish will eat fry - except the corys. Gotta love those LFS, haven't you? The corys are best in groups of four or five plus.
Yes LFS tend to tell you what you want to hear sometimes, but I do trust mine despite this. I dont have enough room for five corys so two will have to do for now. I intend to get a bigger tank early next year once I have enough confidence with the two I have now. It has been a big learning curve since I got the first tank at Christmas, totally hooked and have been busy trying to cope with numerous young. Both the Mollie pair and Platy pair have produced alternatively about every two weeks, so its been a concern to keep on top of water quality and transferring the young into a nursery tank and then off to the lfs. I have learnt so much from this forum, its been priceless. So thank you.
The more of the same kind of corydoras that you have room for, the better they will entertain you. If you have a spotted corydoras, you would do best to get another spotted one. It's a common name that I don't know, what is the correct name for that fish? Many cories have spots so I am asking to better know what we are talking about, not to correct you. I am sure they were called spotted by your LFS but the scientific name would help us understand what kind you are dealing with and maybe give you better advice.
Ok so lets drop the Cory bit, I have a Spotted Dora, agamyxis pectinifrons, also known as 'Spotted talking catfish'. I guess that the Dora is different from Corydoras. My ignorance again, so please any info on the above would be appreciated.