cories in my fry tank

[mark razmandi]

got 3 cories today for my 10g fry tank, they are about 1.5" ....i know cories should be in groups and i was asking if anyone knew how many i should have in my 10g...i really dont care how many i gotta have because the fry dont take up much space and the cories are cute lol i dont know what kind they are though...maybe pepper

[Gapzero]

post a pic and I will tell you what they are. Also if they are paleatus (peppered) then 3 is fine.

also is your fry tank bare bottom?

[mark razmandi]

yea, its bare bottom, im gettin a pic

[Gapzero]

corydoras do not do well in bare bottom tanks. At least in my experience. if you put a .5 inch layer of PFS it wont affect the fry and it will help the corydoras.

[mark razmandi]

whats wrong with a bare bottom? heres a pic

http://i33.tinypic.com/2sbrgj4.jpg

[Gapzero]

Im actually not sure what is wrong with barebottom , but I know my cats seem more active and "happy" with sand. not sure those are peppered. With the lateral stripes and the black over the eyes , they look more like parallelus or maybe c133. Where id you get them.

[mark razmandi]

i got them from xtreme...they just got them in...

heres a better pic.

http://i38.tinypic.com/25tl3lv.jpg

[Gapzero]

I am sticking with my two ideas, plus they could be loxozonus. Let them chill for a day or so and color up and then we can tell exactly which of the three.

[mark razmandi]

sounds like a plan lol thanks bro

[Mzungu]

Gapzero sure knows his cories! :)

But you're right, Mark. They are irresistibly cute!

[Gapzero]

I try. It is really hard cause not including aspidoras and scleromatyx, there are still 150 and still finding more. The meeting got me interested in cichlids though. So to supplement my Brichardi complex. I am getting some pundamilia nyererei, and a few other victorian cichlids from a wholesaler who buys my frogs. We are trading this time. I really like catfish, and they seem to go well in cichlid tanks. I am a nerd though, I would rather watch my tanks than TV or cuddle to aquarium light instead of a fire.

[Mzungu]

Yeah, I thought I was up on them about a year or two ago! That's like saying you are up on all the recent changes to cichlid scientific names, lol. Tomorrow it won't matter. :)

[mark razmandi]

lol me too, i watch my tanks all day, im a loser lol

[Gapzero]

No joke, it is really amazing how much the names change. Most of my frogs names have been the same since the originally described. Except phyllodendrobates is now just dendrobates. I have some TFH from 2005, 2006, 2007, and alot of the names are different now. Plus remember of the 150+ corys some still are waiting taxonomic classification , and could turn out to be already described. Plus I am more interested in the catfish from drainage regions. Not so much the tributary fish. Also MZUNGU I am bringing you a cool cory to the auction. I got my Paleatus wild morph to breed, and now have 3 fry that are .75 inch. They have the perfect black bands across the back, which you cannot get at a LFS.

[Mzungu]

Awesome! Thanks!
And congrats!

[Gapzero]

Thanks , it is the first time I got some of the wigglers to reach some sort of length. It is actually strange but the only way I could the wild ones to breed was to just put one female and one male in a ten gallon platy grow out tank.