Mental Catfish

[lousybreed]

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the cory also swims around like a psychopath. about 3 months ago i lost every single fish in my 15 gallon while i was gone for several days. they got some weird disease from a betta that i introduced. he was living with dead fish for 5 days. i came home and thought that everything was dead. in the corner there was a finless cory still kicking!! I did masive WC's and cleaned up the aquarium and is doing great. his fins took a full 3 weeks to regrow all the way.he has gotten enormous since the mass death........

 

[congealedmeat]

why does everyone say that cories should be kept in groups? I have one and it is loving it!!!!!!

They're way more fun to watch in groups. When they're laying around the tank, one of them will just shift, then the next one will too, and it just starts a chain-reaction of retardedness.

 

[Swimfins]

They're way more fun to watch in groups. When they're laying around the tank, one of them will just shift, then the next one will too, and it just starts a chain-reaction of retardedness.

I planted painstainkingly, some nice pygmy chain sword, that looks alot like little grassy stems. Well, I had no sooner put 'em in place when these three cories decide to go bounding through it one after the other like little kids in a pile of leaves. Well, fishtanks are for fish ain't they? So I bit my lip and kicked the couch..... Luv the cories.

 

[congealedmeat]

lol Swimfins, mine hang out in my bacopa all day. Just laying in it, hanging out with the shrimp. Guess it beats laying on gravel

 

[vikingfisherman]

indeed it is a breeding response wich in your cories can be triggered by partial water changes with water about 5 degrees warmer or cooler than than the current water this will trick them into thinking the rainy season has come andthey will "clean" the glass to lay eggs. the eggs are vulnerable to fungus but if you use a mild fungicide at half strenght they will hatch. ive successfully breeded cories in a community tank and a species tank but heres the thing

they do all that cleaning to lay eggs but they will lay "dummy" nests of eggs that are not fertilized!!! then hide the real eggs!! to trick their predators and i must say my fish love picking those eggs off the glass!!! also when the males get into "heat" there tails may turn reddish slightly easier to see with albinosS
the eggs will hatch in 3 to 8 days depending on tempurature unfertilized dummy eggs turn white remove them they will also eat there dummy eggs after theyve laid the real ones!

keeping one cory by itself is cruel they are like dolphins or elephants and are matriarchal they depend on there school like a wolf pack or lions. do your fish a favor and get him a few friends meany!!!

 

[mister ben]

One of my cories has recently started swimming upside-down at the surface of the water and gliding all the way across the tank like that when he goes up for a little breather. It's hilarious!