corys

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icka

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ok, i have a ten gallon fry tank and i want corys.

I did some research and from what i have read they need at least 30gal min, is this absolute??
Also, most require a low ph the highest one i found is 6.2-7.8, however my water is 8.4, can this work??
The corydoras sterbai aka sterba's cory, is the one that i am looking at because it is the closet fit to my water conditions, does anyone know any that will fit my water of 8.4 ph, with hard to very hard water? in a ten gallon?

Please i like them, in my 40gal i have some hoplos and love em, my other 10gal has a baby plecostomas (i know it will outgrow it, i have a place to move it, relax)

any help with what i can do to get maybe 3 corys in a ten gal will be awesome, or if anyone knows of a catfish that is solitary that will work with my tank?
 
Most solitary catfish will eat your fry. Cories do best with at least 4 individuals preferably more. Bronze (including albino) cories are probably the hardiest and may adapt to your conditions. Common pleco's suck. I'd get rid of it.
 
in my bf's tank we have two and i am in love with em, in fact the big one is the only fish we have named.
i am looking into other types of catfish and have found a few, i will post them later
 
I've got a bunch of them in my 10G - currently 5 pandas (they are still small), one bandit, and one pepper.

There are dwarf corys that stay super tiny - like 1" or so.
Get a bunch of them, as they like company, as everyone else said. :)
 
I've only been successful with bronze and pepper corydoras. I have Pandas for 3 years, but I have to buy 8 of them in order to havd 3 survive-- what ever survives lives on. My water is hard and alkaline and clean and aged. Like I said, if I want complete success, only those two spiecies mentioned.
 
My luck with peppers has not been good.
I've had at least half a dozen die on me.
I'm down to my last one. :(

I started with two bronze, but they both died within a week.

The pandas have been in the tank for about a month now, and I've only lost one.
*cross fingers*

The peppers were a LOT more active than my pandas.
I dunno...maybe I just got really shy pandas?
Every little movement will cause them to go scurring for cover; my peppers never really cared - they just went along their business.
 
I have a bronze cory named "stinky" and he/she (i dunno) has been in my 10 gallon with some guppies for a month now. seems really happy swims around a lot and looks for food a lot. sometimes it likes to swim corkscrew like up and down the tank flapping its tail at the top. very cute
 
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