My ph seems to be about a steady 8. I have two balloon mollies, and i just got a small, what was called "catfish", but it is not like the larger pictus ones or anything. its small, im told it stays small, its albino, and you can kinda notice a greenish irredesent shiney spots on both of his size. he has red eyes and his mouth comes to a little point kinda, with little tiny feeler thingies. Im kinda concerned about my ph, since i just did a water change with a little over 2 gallons of distilled water (i have a 10 gallon tank). Ive heard the mollies are fine with the higher ph, but im not sure about the other fish. Since i put him in earlier, he swam around a bit, but he mostly is hanging out in the back corners. I also noticed my male mollie kinda nipping at him, but it didnt seem as if it was doing any damage, and the catfish never fled....
Is my ph okay for this bottom feeder?
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Sounds like an Albino corry catfish. He will do fine, I have corry catfish in my water and the PH is 7.5. As long as he didnt come from a tank with a low PH, and you just droped him in, he should be ok. My corry catfish will lay at the bottom for a few minutes, then dart around the tank for a while. A stable PH is the most important thing, unless you are breeding certain types of fish. They do like the company of other Corries if you have room for more.
Does he look like this:http://www.****************/images_01/cory_albino.jpg
Does he look like this:http://www.****************/images_01/cory_albino.jpg
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Yes, thats him! Hes doing much better today. He seem,s to be very active, and ive noticed him occasionally playing with my my mollies without either of them trying to atttack one another. However, it almost seemed like at one point this morning he was trying to jump out of the tank, swimmig up and down the sides kinda fast, i have a full hood, but i hope he doesnt hurt himself. I plan on getting a regular non-albino one to go in there with him, i assume thats fine? Oh, I also noticed another kind of cory catfish there, it looked like the normal ones, but had spots. Same shiney green sides and everything.
Anyway, so do all three of them (normal, albino, spotted) stay pretty small? Also, my tank is only 10 gallons, and right now i have 2 balloon mollies, and the cory. If i were to get 2 more corys, would that ahve a large effect on how many non-bottom feeders i can put in the tank?
Anyway, so do all three of them (normal, albino, spotted) stay pretty small? Also, my tank is only 10 gallons, and right now i have 2 balloon mollies, and the cory. If i were to get 2 more corys, would that ahve a large effect on how many non-bottom feeders i can put in the tank?
Corys love to be in groups of similar corys, and the swimming to the surface is totally normal. Get 2 more albinos and watch them have fun!
Sounds good. would have loved to have some of the other types, but the albino are very cool looking. So, having 3 cories and my 2 balloon mollies, how much more fish space will i have left? I was thinking i wanted 1 dwarf gourami (sp) and maybe a school of neons, would this work out? how many neons would i be looking at getting?
Also, any chance an otto would fit in there somewhere?
Also, any chance an otto would fit in there somewhere?