panda cories

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hi there,
I have 2 panda cories that i have been trying to get friends for but many lfs' in my area dont carry pandas.
Can i get others? will they school? Will they get along?
and Which other corys do you reccomend?
I will be getting rid of my 3 adult platies so that will leave me some room to get corys.

Thanks.

Ps. my tank has been running since March of this year.
 
Hi,

Your Pandas would love having other Cory friends, even if it's not their own species. Different species of Cories will loosely school and get along great. If your getting another soecies of Cory, I would go with the Three-Striped Cory (Corydoras trilineatus) or the Schwartz's Cory (Corydoras schwartzi). They are both very pretty and are relatively easy to keep. They are both readily available in petstores.

Hope this can help!

Cory Lover
 
Cory Lover said:
Hi,

Your Pandas would love having other Cory friends, even if it's not their own species. Different species of Cories will loosely school and get along great. If your getting another soecies of Cory, I would go with the Three-Striped Cory (Corydoras trilineatus) or the Schwartz's Cory (Corydoras schwartzi). They are both very pretty and are relatively easy to keep. They are both readily available in petstores.

Hope this can help!

Cory Lover
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yes, but IME they will only school with cories of similar size and coloration. (IE. peppereds will easily school with juliis, but not bronze IME) sooooo.... if you want your cories to school, you'd be best off getting skunk corys, as they look alot like pandas, or dwarf cories, because they are very similar in size.
 
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fishcatch22 said:
yes, but they will only school with cories of similar size and coloration. (IE. peppereds will easily school with juliis, but not bronze IME) sooooo.... if you want your cories to school, you'd be best off getting skunk corys, as they look alot like pandas, or dwarf cories, because they are very similar in size.
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Hi,

I disagree. For example I have Bronzes and they will school with my Three-Striped. My Three-Striped are much smaller.

Cory Lover
 
Cory Lover said:
Hi,

I disagree. For example I have Bronzes and they will school with my Three-Striped. My Three-Striped are much smaller.

Cory Lover
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I said In My Experience they do not school with others. I did not say you were wrong, I just said that they have never done that for me..
 
fishcatch22 said:
I said In My Experience they do not school with others. I did not say you were wrong, I just said that they have never done that for me..
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Hi,

You never said in my experience.

Cory Lover
 
Cory Lover said:
Hi,

You never said in my experience.

Cory Lover
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I meant to say that.
 
Cory Lover said:
Hi,

You never said in my experience.

Cory Lover
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Originally Posted by fishcatch22
yes, but they will only school with cories of similar size and coloration. (IE. peppereds will easily school with juliis, but not bronze IME) sooooo.... if you want your cories to school, you'd be best off getting skunk corys, as they look alot like pandas, or dwarf cories, because they are very similar in size.



Hi,

I disagree. For example I have Bronzes and they will school with my Three-Striped. My Three-Striped are much smaller.

Cory Lover
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(IE. peppereds will easily school with juliis, but not bronze IME)
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IME stands for In My Experience

Blue
 
Cory Lover said:
Hi,

Your Pandas would love having other Cory friends, even if it's not their own species. Different species of Cories will loosely school and get along great. If your getting another soecies of Cory, I would go with the Three-Striped Cory (Corydoras trilineatus) or the Schwartz's Cory (Corydoras schwartzi). They are both very pretty and are relatively easy to keep. They are both readily available in petstores.

Hope this can help!

Cory Lover
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I have found this to be the case. A few years ago, I had a melanisthus cory with two bronze cories in a 10 gallon. The bronzes were about half the size (and a completely different color), but the three hung out together all the time.
 
thanks everyone for your help.

I will look into the cory types you have reccommended and hope for the best.

My current pandas are thick as flies doing everything together but i know that they are not at their happiest.they are not all over the place and as active as they were when there were 4 of them :( .
 
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