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on another page i was reading it said this lady had a goldfish and cories and pl*cos in the same tank, she also went on to say how the goldfish got wounds or something from her "overzealous suitors"(dont know what this means im 14 can someone explain it?) whatever that is or means and the cories sucked at her wounds and the Pl*co sucked away and really injured her and ate away her tail, i was wonder if this would happen to me and if i would have this problem w/my cories. mine are albino but hers were pand or bandit dont kno which she has b/c she said she had both but in different tanks.i notice my cories like playing w/her maybe b/c she has a tail kinda like what she has and think she is 1 of them? she like also follows them around to, should i be worried about this, and is this a form of harrassing my poor goldy, the pl*co also sucked away at her, but her pl*costomus was a common mine is a small candy striped and he is a baby like 1inch or so hers wqas 7-9 inches ,and mine usually always only comes out at night. should i be worried about this?also i have a heater that is set @ 70 and the pl*co hid under it and the goldy does too i guess for shade so i guess they can co-exist, it is one of those heaters that stix on the side of the tank flat via sucktion cups.sry for the long post.please reply soon.

Cories never attack other fish, unless they are one of the aggressive varieties. Yours are not. Also, that candy cane pleco is very peaceful, and will leave your goldfish alone.

However, the temperature is probably a little high for the goldfish, and too low for the others. How big is your tank? And, what kind of goldfish do you have? The goldie may very well outgrow your setup soon, especially if it is a comet or common goldfish.

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no it is of the fancy variety and is a small. they only grow about 6-9 inches thats there breed unless fed heavily on live foods.the neons have always been at this temp and the goldfish is suppose to be at 75 or something.the tank is at 70 but i guess i could bump it up to 72Fit is a 20 gallon but he will be moved to a 45 when he/she grows bigger.the neons will stay in the 15.thanks i was a lil worried.

Any goldfish has the ability to get extremely large; they're all the same species, after all. Orandas (for example) are commonly considered to "stay smaller" than other goldfish varieties, but Bruce thinks otherwise ...
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I have 2 cories and 2 pleco with my 5 fancytail goldfish, no problems at all getting along. The cories do tend to hide in caves and that has concerned me. Don't know why.

I have Cories(peppered), BN pleco, Raphael catfish, 2 Otos, a Kuhli Loach, and a GOlden Sucker with my 2 Fantails. No problems, and I keep the temp around 74 degrees.

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I had some trilineatus cories with a small shubunkin for a while. It was very funny because the cories thought that the shubunkin was the leader of their gang and they used to follow it around wherever it swam. It was really strange as it doesn't look anything like the cories but they still seemed to have liked him. In no way were they attacking it or anything.

Unfortunately, the shubunkin was relocated to the outside pond and the cories are looking for a new leader of the gang.

I suspect that this lady's goldfish was in a really bad state that it was considered by the other fish to be food. Can you please post the link?