lorteti questions?

Tihsho · Post by **Tihsho** » Wed May 17, 2006 5:42 pm

If you want to look into tank mates I would look towards fast species or ones that tend to hide well. I have corries with mine and they are perfectly fine, but then again nothing IME has ever gone after a cory cat. Along with the corries are Endlers livebearers that got put there by accident...

Woland · Post by **Woland** » Wed May 17, 2006 5:57 pm

Tihsho wrote:but then again nothing IME has ever gone after a cory cat.

Try keeping them with a Fahaka (crunch!) or a Palembang (party time).
I've kept Corys with C. irrubesco without problems though.
In fact the Corys bullied the irrubesco...

On the other hand, said irrubesco rid the tank of all Ancistrus, Oto's and amazingly enough 10+ Tiger barbs.
You never know with puffers...

Tihsho · Post by **Tihsho** » Wed May 17, 2006 6:08 pm

Woland wrote: Try keeping them with a Fahaka (crunch!) or a Palembang (party time).

Nawww. Can't be true. 99% of the people that see corries are like "They are so adorable!!!" Seems like all of the fish I've had see them the same way. But, as you said, depends on the puff.

Woland · Post by **Woland** » Wed May 17, 2006 6:28 pm

Yeah! Corys are nice sight as they school over the gravel in tight formation.
I've never tried keeping Corys with a Fahaka,
but I have a vivid imagination after my specimen "Babe" killed and ate a Pleco much bigger than her.

I bought a batch of wild caught Mollies last summer (I can hear my GSP fiesting on fry as I write),
and the guy had a bag with 20+ corys which he had been stucked with.
Threw them into the bargain.
I put them in a 180 gallon with my two Palembangs.
Took a week...

Tihsho · Post by **Tihsho** » Wed May 17, 2006 6:37 pm

Woland wrote: I put them in a 180 gallon with my two Palembangs.
Took a week...

Ouch... :2: :7: :6:

Poor Corries... Guess those palembangs were not use to tank mates, or atleast bottom dwelling tank mates.

Post by **RTR** » Wed May 17, 2006 7:46 pm

Crushed coral is used by many hobbyists with too soft water to contribute both GH and KH. It is not as effective as aragonite, but it does definitely contribute

Jayhawk · Post by **Jayhawk** » Wed May 17, 2006 10:13 pm

RTR makes a good distinction - crushed coral vs. aragonite...I tend to use them interchangably, and it's aragonite I used for my Tanganyikan tanks.

Eric

suki · Post by **suki** » Mon May 22, 2006 12:55 am

well, here's the anticlimactic end to this story - i decided instead to switch the guppies to the 29 and open up the 10, went to pick up the puff, got to petco and they'd just sold it not half an hour before.

oof.

lisalisa · Post by **lisalisa** » Mon May 22, 2006 12:03 pm

How frustrating!!!

suki · Post by **suki** » Mon May 22, 2006 12:15 pm

well, that's what i get for not calling to tell them to hold for me. the guppies are ecstatic, though!

Tihsho · Post by **Tihsho** » Mon May 22, 2006 5:53 pm

Sorry to hear of the bad timing. Seems that in the end without planning ahead you lose by a hair. Never know, the ones you may have been looking at may have degraded over the time they were in the store.

suki · Post by **suki** » Mon May 22, 2006 7:00 pm

i'm taking it as a sign that the tank is meant for something else. who knows? new things come along every day

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