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This is kind of a shoot off of Patchy's thread. My 75g tank has a monster size pair of BNs. Heidi and I were hoping they would breed, but no such luck. However, my cories are disappearing at an alarming rate. Heidi says they are just hiding, but Friday I saw three schoaling, yesterday two, and today I can find only one cory. There are not a lot of decorations that cories could be hiding in or under in that tank, since it is a work in progress. But what I do have is moved to a different location every morning. I am beginning to suspect that the BNs are helping themselves to midnight snacks of the non approved type. I make sure there are plenty of algae wafers and shrimp pellets for them to eat. I don't know how old the BNs are because they came with the tank.

So, experts out there, should I have Heidi take the BNs to the lfs as a safety precaution. I would rather have cories schoaling happily, than BNs growing fatter.]:|

Last edited by pugperson at 09-Oct-2005 11:35

I have lost alot of cories lately also.My pleco is the main reason.I would bet that is your culprit.

Is it possible that a BN will eat a Corydoras?.


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I have cories living with BN's in 4 of my tanks. I haven't had a problem but I found the BN's eating the carass of a dead fish. I also bought 8 bronze cories a couple of weeks ago... I only have 4 left (no BN in tank) The only other fish in the tank are my acaras.

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OK I'm now soaked up to the armpit, like I've been dry since I began redoing the 29 last night:%)

There are 5 corries all accounted for 1 in the "fake log", 3 playing hide and seek in the java moss, and 1 hiding in the other corner...after I go swimming in the tank 4 of them are now together and the other is well acting coryiesh ie swimming like a fool and begging for food

But, in all honesty if the BN don't do something soonthe lfs is going to have a pair as a trade in:%)

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Ok, I am embarrassed. Glad to know that the BNs aren't snacking on cories.

Plecs and BNs have been blamed alot for deaths but I think you'll find that the blame is put onto them only because they can't resist munching on a fish that's already dead from another cause, not from them themselves

just watching my corys, they proberly deserve to be chased from the BN...they tease and mimic him so much.

i have found my plecs quite a number of times sucking on corpses but i dont think they can really eat one unless it was a great deal small than themselves

if your getting a angry BN/pleco provide more bogwood each pleco calms one or two pieces...

Yeah, with the nasty spines that Corydoras have, you won't have to worry about them being eaten by the plecos. I'm sure the plecs would rather have something soft to eat that doesn't move nearly as much.

Dead cories are another story though.

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Thanks for all the information. It is very reassuring.