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Hey everyone, just had one of my albinos die, no apparent reasons. I wouldnt' assume old age as I've only had them going on two years, although I do know they were adults when I got them.

Whats the longest anyoes had an albino Cory live for?

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[hr width='40%']"There’s an emptiness inside her. And she’d do anything to fill it in.
And though it’s red blood bleeding from her now. It's more like cold blue ice in her heart.
She feels like kicking out all the windows. And setting fire to this life."

My albino cory (in fact, it was my first fish) lived for 6 years.

I'm sure he would have lived a lot longer, but I kept him in a little 1 gallon hex tank with two neons and a pleco for the first 2 years of his life. I was young and stupid then.

I wouldn't be surprised if they lasted 10-15 years.

Joe Potato

7 years (and still chuggin ). Purchased when I first arrived in SD.

Perhaps the longest lived fish I've ever kept would be a trinidad pleco, which was shipped from Rochester, NY, all the way to Cali, living a grand total of 13 years.

Last edited by Cup_of_Lifenoodles at 23-Feb-2005 19:28

Aeneus cories like your albinos are some of the most (if not the most) long-lived cories, and can live past twenty years. I doubt that yours were that old, though. It probably died from some unknown condition, I've had that happen to an entire shoal of cories. I know that it has happened to several other cory owners on the site as well.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

10 years is a baseline life span for most Corys.

Most will live to 15 years with ease.

The oldest documented to date is from the Lambourne Corydoras book, a Bronze Cory that lived to be 34 years old.



Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

Thanks guys I'm looking for actual personal experience, not textbook data, I'm more than able to get that on my own .

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[hr width='40%']"There’s an emptiness inside her. And she’d do anything to fill it in.
And though it’s red blood bleeding from her now. It's more like cold blue ice in her heart.
She feels like kicking out all the windows. And setting fire to this life."

I know that it has happened to several other cory owners on the site as well

*raises hand* ME ME ME ]

I lost an entire shoal of 6 pandas for no apparent reason. My guess was some internal parasite only affecting them, b/c nobody else died and there was no water problems...

Keep an eye on the rest of your group Babe, you don't want them to start dropping like flies.

*cough*

Maybe you should bring an updated test kit to work twin.


[hr width='40%'][font color="#000080"]"I know that you are something special, To you I'd be always faithful
I want to be what you always needed, Then I hope you'll see the heart in me"[/font]

-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

Well, these guys have been in the tank for who knows how long, it's a third hand (or more) tank and I don't know the actual fish history.
What I know is that I bought it used going on two years ago. When the tank was picked up it not only had seriously poor stocking but also an inch or so of white/grey fuzz on the substrate, running 2 UGF and the previous owner had never seen a gravel vac.
The corys had been in the tank since I picked it up, no new additions since the 4 goldbarbs that had been in Q-tine for about six months since coming down from fallouts shop. Parasites certianly can't last that long can they :%)!

^_^[hr width='40%']"There’s an emptiness inside her. And she’d do anything to fill it in.
And though it’s red blood bleeding from her now. It's more like cold blue ice in her heart.
She feels like kicking out all the windows. And setting fire to this life."

I have 3 albino,2 skunk, and one panda that have lived since May 1998. I also have a RTBS that was bought in the same month that has toughed it out.

FreeBlaze

Babel, i used to have 3 corys that were the same species. We got them all from the same bunch, same size, same age.

One died a few years ago, and the others are still alive today, and 15 years old.

It was probably just something that happened.