The Puffer Forum

Hi all

Does anyone know much about Cories? I know that they have a shoaling nature and should be in groups of 5-6 minimum. I currently have 3 Albino bronze cory in my community tank. I want to get another 3 to make them happy cories. I have read that different species of Cory won't shoal together but... will albino bronze cory see bronze cory as their own or will they only shoal with other albinos?

Many thanks x

Some species travel in mixed schools in the wild. They would be likely to do the same in captivity.

But IMHO and IME, your tank will look better with a school of all the same species and all the same color morph. If you have the albinos, stick withe those and get more of the same morph.

I've kept 3 types of corys together and they all shoaled together

For what i know, and what i´ve seen corys never move on 5 or 6, thats a reproductive group... the real corydoras groups are huge, from hundreds of fish, but we can't keep hundreds

I have 15 corydoras paleatus and 15 corydoras aeneus (both species have albino morphs) and they are ok together, i keep the 2 groups on a 100 gal pond and see them swimming all together is a beautiful show

The more corys you have, the more happy they are (of course, if your thank allows it).

Thanks everybody.

30 Corys huh? Now that's a sight I'd like to see!

Unfortunately I don't have the room for more than 6 corys in my 180l. Not with the other current and planned residents although I am considering forgetting the 8 rasboras I have planned and adding an extra 3 corys making a group of 9. Decisions decisions...

Have you seen this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWIVCdLOImw

My pond doesn't look as beautiful as that.. I wil make some videos of my little pond ñ_ñ

UUUUuuu reabsorbs are cute... you are in troubles HP... difficult one you´re into....

I can't see the video?! Is it me?

Ummm.. i can't insert videos directly... i change it to the link dude

Hee hee great video. They look gorgeous!

RVS wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWIVCdLOImw

witchcraft!!!!

How yo do that?
(Thank you ñ_ñ)

That is sooooooo cool!!! Cory stampede!

RVS wrote:witchcraft!!!!

How yo do that?
(Thank you ñ_ñ)

lol, i had to search around to find out how a little while ago. xray had told us how in a thread somewhere. but i took the hyperlink, clicked the youtube embed thingy in the reply screen and just removed everything except what was after the "watch?v=" so basically i just had /youtube] then "cWIVCdLOImw" between the brackets

lol me explaining this is a fail because everything gets screwed up if i do the youtube embed formula. (stuff in link after "watch?v=") [youtube then put the end bracket

ummm.. ok, so... just put the later code of the video between ?