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I don't think the cories would appreciate the hard, alkaline water that yellow labs want. Cories come from the Amazon, remember, and the pH there is 5, or lower, in some places.

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They shade the glow of it with their mossy-misty costumes,
They wear masks of silk, porcelain, brass, and silver,
So as not to mislead with their own, ordinary faces.

I would advise removing any decor with openings barely large enough for fish to squeeze through as fish may become trapped. Freeing the fish can be far more difficult than anticipated. Some ornaments can be very hard to break. A stressful experience for fish and fishkeeper.

I had one clown pleco firmly wedge itself into a length of PVC pipe that I had been certain it could not possibly squeeze into. (The pipe was in the tank for A. cacatuoides.) By the time I discoved the pleco's plight and rescued it, its efforts to free itself had worn right through the skin on both sides. This was well beyond simple surface abrasions - the damage was quite deep. The pleco eventually did heal and recover, but it was a long and uncertain journey back.

My new driftwood had a few small swimholes running through it. To avoid fish deaths, I stuffed the ends of the holes closed with wadded filter floss.

...Plus, they are lower level strata swimmers, preferring caveture to open water.

my friend has a school of 6 peppered glasscats they are the best i have seen for schooling

The house is made of cement I believe and has been painted black inside and outside. It's one of those chinese aquarium thingies in the market, they come in painted black on the inside unlike ceramic peices that are polished. The surface is rough and scrubby and the fish seem to like that compared to another smooth ceramic house I have. It's got one door and two windows, unlike the open houses you get with 2 doors and 2 windows.

This one is very dark and therefore is prime property on the aquarium floor today.

Clowny what is the house made of? Might give my fools something different to try to get into other than this thin little crack (seems thin and little in my opinion):%)how they get in is beyond me, and I'll never understand how they ever get out

I've also found that my goofy corries have discovered the 1/2 coconut shell I found at PetSmart in the Amphibian section makes a great hiding/sleeping place for the corries...because you really do want to have a place for them to hide if your yellow labs decide to go bizark and attack everything insite

heidi

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Clown Loaches, and I have 19 of them.

You should see them put up a show regularly at 4 pm in the evening and sleep all together in one teeny weeny house. The fattest guys love to come out thru the windows eventho they are too fat to squeeze in or out and refuse the use the door.

The house is about 6 - 7 inches tall and a pack of ten or more 4 inch clowns lives in it, at any given point of time

It is corydoras specific; probably because they are so small and active. We normally keep even the most docile of peckoltia with the labidos, and they aren't even touched.

Really? I find that when most Rift Lake cichlids discover that bottom feeders aren't made out of algae, they tend to leave them alone. But I've never done it with Electric Yellows specifically, however, so it could be different.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Actually, we have tried housing C. sp. "green lazer" with our labidos, and they were chased around for hous on end. I would advise against it, not necessarily due to chemistry issues but rather, extraspecific behavior.

Yes, as will many other hardy Corydoras species. While most cories do prefer soft and acidic water, they can thrive in a higher pH and hardness. Also, some cories are actually from areas with alkaline water. C. polystictus is an example of this group.

I keep my assorted cories in a 7.8 pH with a high gH, as do several customers. The fish apparently aren't too discontent with their situation.

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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."

Albino bronze corys, however, have been bred in our harder, more alkaline water for countless generations. They will be fine in a Rift Lake tank.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

which bottom feeder schools the tightest in you opinion?

its a 46 gallon bowfront

As long as the tank is large enough (40+ gallons) and the corys have a place to hide, it should be fine.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

im going to go with albino corys i jus recently bought some and they are always together do u think they could be in a tank with yellow labs?

Last edited by LOACHESRCOOL at 29-May-2005 15:39

Many of the schooling Silurids will die of stress if they are kept in groups of three or less.

I hear this a lot at work: "I keep buying a couple glass cats but they always hide and then they die after a month or two and I don't know why". And since their water is usually fine, the only explanation I can come up with is that the fish die from stress and fear.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Blue sheetfish and peppered glasscats are bottom dwelling, schooling silurids, both of which are far better versed in the art of tight schooling than any cory could ever dream to be.


Last edited by Cup_of_Lifenoodles at 29-May-2005 16:04

C. delphax and C. agassizii cories are good shoalers for non-dwarfs; and I do agree in that the dwarf/pygmy cories tend to shoal pretty well, if not always on the bottom of the tank.

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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."

How can you suggest anything other than CLown Loaches. They're always together and will try to fit as many as they can in any gap.