Cory Schooling

HI All

So last weekend I bought 6 cories, 2 of each.

copper
sterbai
peppered

The copper cories are a bit bigger than the other 4 but they area ll sharing food and seems to be getting along.

I did google and found mixed answered on this, are these numbers be enough considering the different species, or should i look at getting more of each species?

 

It is usually recommended to stick with 6 or more of each species, but cories do generally clump together and work as a group. If your tank is big enough, i would recommend upping the numbers of each. Alternatively, see which one you like the looks of most, return the others, and get more of the favourite.

 

I noticed that the copper cories are chilled while he other 2 species seemed very shy. This never seemed to bug them in my big unplanted tank years back when I mixed them, but in the 60L it seems to be an issue. Not sure if the shrimp are scary to them lol

 

guess ill be having a 2ft community tank with cories and shrimp only lol

 

I currently have 3 x Bronze and 2 x Albino in a tank and for the most part they hang out together. May get one more Albino, because OCD...

 

Ahhh of course.

 

At one stage i had 2 or 3 of each species and they just all hang out together, never had a problem...
But i suppose ideally, they say 5 of each
The shy ones usually come out their shell as they get older like most catfish

 

I did a head count this afternoon after a WC, the copper and the sterbai are active and look happy, sometimes together, sometimes seperate 2 man schools. The pepper cory I can only find one, and compared to the others he does not seem to be in good health, just mostly sitting still and the 2nd one I cant find. Not sure if its because something is wrong or because my adult shrimp are bigger than they are at this stage, but if i dont see the 2nd pepper cory I will have to tear my planted tank up tomorrow to see if i can find him

 

21 Degrees

 

yes, smallest cories i have ever seen, about 2cm long

 

That's (too) low for C.sterbai.

C.aeneus (bronze you probably mean) and C.paleatus don't mind.

I'd get some more of each species.

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Thanks for pointing the temp out to me, I will try to return then and just get more copper/albinos as the pepper ones didn't look to good this morning before work

 

Agree. Corys are pretty much safe for everything (except bloodworms, tubifex, brine shrimp and daphnia hahaha)

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