Can cories drown?

[Chrisk-K]

Since they need to periodically breathe air, I wonder if they can drown. The reason why I'm asking is my son found one of my cories stuck belly-up between the back of the tank and an air tubing. I thought the cory was dead but when my son moved the tubing, he came back to life.

[kevinb120]

I don't know, but if there is a dumb place in a tank that a fish would have to do something incredibly stupid to exploit it, that fish would certainly be a cory.... :D

[Chrisk-K]

if there is a dumb place in a tank that a fish would have to do something incredibly stupid to exploit it, that fish would certainly be a cory.... :D

Yeah. I have no idea how a fish can possibly get stuck between the thin air tubing and the tank!

[jackiomy]

One of my silly baby cories got himself stuck in an empty snail shell. All I could see was a piece of his tail moving. I had to break the shell piece by piece until I could get him out.

[Somervell]

Not the brightest in the fish world, but they certainly are funny. I don't think they can drown, though.

[excuzzzeme]

I don't know, but if there is a dumb place in a tank that a fish would have to do something incredibly stupid to exploit it, that fish would certainly be a cory.... :D :lol: How true, How true.

[jpappy789]

I prefer the term oblivious to dumb...but yeah, not the brightest fish in the world lol.

[BioHazard]

I don't THINK they can drown, like a brig snail or a lungfish would...but I wouldn't put money on that bet. MsJinkzd might know, she has owned a loooooooooot of cories.

[Alexandrian]

I don't know, but if there is a dumb place in a tank that a fish would have to do something incredibly stupid to exploit it, that fish would certainly be a cory.... :D

They get stuck every where in the tank and as long as a corycat can't swim backward so i think it go upside dawn trying to free itself :D

[Chrisk-K]

Not the brightest in the fish world, but they certainly are funny.

No other fish entertain me better than my cories!

[Somervell]

My husband calls my corys the "Hiya fish" because whenever you walk over to the tank, they all go psycho and seem to be saying "Hiya! Hiya! Feed me! Hiya!"

[Scuppers]

I have a 1.5" albino I call Adolph, the only fish I have ever named. He is nuts, just totally and completely bonkers. So much character, Puts more miles in than all the others combined and when he swims he wags his head twice as much as his tail.

I imagine a cory would find every way imaginable to get into a fix.

[ayra321]

umm i think they can drown,they are labyrinth fish like bettas so they probably need air.
i have to keep my cories from shooting out of thier tank :) i have plexiglass and netting over my 20 long and i can hear them plinking off of the screen top at night like little bullets :)

[Chrisk-K]

I did some research. Yes, cories will drown if they can't inhale air for a long time.

[fishycat]

They're not labyrinth, but they do absorb oxygen by swallowing air...