What do you know about corydoras sterbai

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alfbennett

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I have culled down my tank as I discussed in my other thread, and am working on finilazing my restocking plan. (by culling, I mean they have a new home, not a wattery grave)

I have currently 1 albino cory cat, and three blackskirts. I have been told to up my cory count, and I am thinking about introducing 3 corydoras sterbai.

Will this still leave my albino lonely or will they hang out? I don't think aggression will be a problem.
 
You can add sterbai but you also need to up the aeneus as they tend to stay with their own kind. They don't have to be albino though, you could get bronz or green aeneus or a mixture.
 
snoopy65 said:
You can add sterbai but you also need to up the aeneus as they tend to stay with their own kind. They don't have to be albino though, you could get bronz or green aeneus or a mixture.
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Piggybacking on his question:

I have 3 peppered cories (cory paleatus) and was planning on getting 3 or 4 aenus (combo of albino/bronze/green probably). Is that okay?
 
I have 4 aenus, 5 paleatus, 4 brochis, 1 sterbai, and 3 mystery cory. They are all inseperable, they feed together and school together all the time. But when romance is in the air they break up and only breed with their same type. Except for the mystery corys, everybody likes them. I am almost thinking they are hybrids the way the other corys act with them. I need to get a couple more sterbai but haven't been able to find them under $7.99 each and I just can't justify spending that much right now. :(
 
Cool thanks. I was planning on just getting some albinos anaeus, but my lfs is getting green ones in this week. Can't find bronze though. :(

ETA: With all these cories, the females are bigger, right? I'm pretty sure one of my paladeus is female.
 
I have 3 bronze cories and 3 bandit cories, and while most of the time they swim around in the groups of three, quite often I see them all running around together.
 
clb2196 said:
Cool thanks. I was planning on just getting some albinos anaeus, but my lfs is getting green ones in this week. Can't find bronze though. :(

ETA: With all these cories, the females are bigger, right? I'm pretty sure one of my paladeus is female.
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Just make sure if you buy the greens that they are actually corys and not brochis. The brochis get a lot bigger than the corys. I found out the hard way when I listened to the guy at the LFS when I first got into fish. I love my brochis but they are a lot more shy than the others. And, yes, the females tend to be bigger than the males.
 
From my experience, the albinos and sterbai will school seperately. I have never had luck with different cory species schooling together. All have kept to their respective species.
 
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