Brevis with Cories?

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Has anyone successfully mixed brevis and cories? It looks like I will be stocking my 12 gallon Eclipse with a few brevis in the near future but I already have a single cory living in it (he was rescued from another tank of mine). Will the brevis put up with a cory in the tank, or can I expect to find a finless cory flopping around once they are together. If they generally get along, I plan on adding another cory to the tank since I know cories don't like to be alone.
 
I don't know how'd they get along... brevises can be very feisty when breeding. I would personally consider exchanging the cory in or getting another tank.
 
For now, the brevis don't really care about the cory. If I end up with a breeding pair, things might change.......but they ignore the little guy for the most part. They kick the crap out of each other.......but they couldn't care less about the emerald.
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He's even stuck his head in their shells and they ignore him.

Here's a little video of the cory and the brevis around a shell: http://www.roadrashed.com/Aquarium pics/Shelldwellers/ignoring cory.wmv
 
Stange tank. Brevis are rift lake cichlid that like a ph of 8-9. Where the cories are a s. americqan sp. that likes more acidic water. To keep both in the same tank you would have to cement the ph at 7.6-7.8 tops. Two tanks would be better. Some species of cories can live at room tempature, if yours is one of those than a species tank-tub of water bought at a local canadian tire might be a better idea. Though streaching it with the ph range consistent ph is more important to the fish then the ph of native water.
 
qtaquaman said:
Stange tank. Brevis are rift lake cichlid that like a ph of 8-9. Where the cories are a s. americqan sp. that likes more acidic water. To keep both in the same tank you would have to cement the ph at 7.6-7.8 tops. Two tanks would be better. Some species of cories can live at room tempature, if yours is one of those than a species tank-tub of water bought at a local canadian tire might be a better idea. Though streaching it with the ph range consistent ph is more important to the fish then the ph of native water.
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Actually....I screwed up with a typo. That's a emerald Brochis, not a cory. I have the PH at 8.0 now, but I know it needs to be raised eventually. The Brochis was just in the tank to get it cycled for a couple of weeks with plans of taking him out anyway.
 
For best brevis spawning, and I sympathise I'm waitin on my fisrt pair. I would keep the hardness over twenty and the ph at 8.3 to 9. The cory cat is just not going to be able to handle that, sorry. Looks like an emarald cory from the pictures but the genus sp name is diff.
 
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