Setting up a cory tank. :]

[xoparis]

I've got a spare 20g lying around that I've been trying to think of ideas for..I also have a 10g, but I figured that would be much too small for a group of corys...Would it be?

Anyways, can someone recommend a good type of cory for the 20g? I was afraid I'd get the wrong kind and have them too big for the tank and unhappy after a while. I was also thinking of doing pygmys in the 10g...

[DarrylR]

Commonly sold ones at petsmart, petco,lfs are:

spotted
green
emerald
peppered
albino
Pandas ( my favorite)

Emerald grow the largest around 3 inches, the rest around 2 inches.

[xoparis]

I love the look of the pandas too! The albinos are pretty sweet as well.

[Snakes]

Well I have a few bronze cory's in my 10G Tank that will soon be upgraded
Cory's stay small so your 20G should be fine
I used Sand as Substrate because they like to scavenge around looking for food LOL and the sand is better for there liking
They small peaceful active fish that like to hide under my java moss bed as well
I feed them bottom dweller food as thats what they are and flake food end up in my other fishes mouths leaving the dropped foods for cory's
I love them as they mind there own business

[jackiomy]

My bronzes and albinos are the best! Just be careful because sometimes they list their brochis splendens as corys and they get really big! They are sweet but I call them my little dinosaurs because they have gotten so big. They were sold to me as corys before I new better and what to look for.

[rocker92]

try juliis they are what i have in my 10gal.

[xoparis]

Thank you for all of the feedback! I have to change my substrate from gravel to sand, but I was kind of planning on doing that anyways as my tank needs major scaping upgrades!

[Mokomon]

Panda's, no question!
I have panda's, julii's, emerald green's, and peppered, & the panda's are the most active, comical, onnes out of the bunch!

My julii's are forever hiding :(

[Tophat665]

You can do a school of 5 cories in a 10 with the exception of the really big ones: Bronchis splendens (3"), Bronchis britskii (6.5"), Scleromystax barbatus (4+" cool water, like current, and that goes for all of the Scleromystax spp.), C.negro (4+") and a couple others whos names escape me at the moment, and which you will likely never see.

If you're using a 20, particluarly a 20 long, I would go with 10 Pandas. If you want something more unusual, go with a good 15 or 20 C. hastatus, habrosus, or pygmaeus. The Hastatus are more midwater fish. If you keep them with some ottos the ottos will school with them sometimes.

I've got 5 C. arcuatus in a 15 with a half dozen platies, and they are out and about a good bit.

The trick is to give them overhead hard cover. I have a big, low cave (Driftwood) in my 55 that my Albino aeneus never use, because having it there is enough security for them. They're out in the front of the tank all the time.

Last thing, make sure you age your water for changes. I had a bunch of cories go belly up before i figured out that treating the tank and piping in the water wasn't good enough for the more delicate species (Panda, Habrosus, and Arcuatus.)

[BreellaBlue87]

I love albinos. I can't wait to see pics of this

[zzyzx85]

Another vote for a school of panda corys. They're a smaller species of corys so you can keep a larger group of them. And a large group of corys means happy corys.

[Virtuoso2K12]

Albino handsdown. ;)

[Fish-Addict]

Peppers have a great personality along with being always active.

[yikesjason]

I really like the Sterbai. They have beautiful patterns

[acevudoo]

are there a skunk cory.. almost reverse of panda?

[faun]

I have pandas and i love them they are really cool,we also have bronze cories and some hasborus but the pandas are my fave.

[JohnEX]

i would do 2 schools. 6 pandas and 4 or 5 of another kind.

[foolishfish]

Hadn't had one in a long while till my wife bought 5 Orange Lasers, (don't know any other name for them). Hyper active in a well planted 75 g. tank with a bunch of very large gold fish and a 10" pleco. They have driftwood to hide under and plant stalks galore but they are almost always out and about either as a group or individually. They are totally fearless.

Liked 'em so much that we added (5) ea. Schwatzi, Sterbai & Agassizi to several other large tanks. The Schwartzi are in with an 18" pleco. He couldn't care less and neither could they. It's hilarious to watch them cleaning a piece of driftwood on either side of big boy.

Tryin' to finish a cave / stone backed tank for some rams and wanted to include Julii and Adolfoi's. Couldn't pick a favorite but I don't think you can go wrong with any of these guys.