my corys are being bullied

[frozenfire641]

I have 4 albino corys and my guppies are bullying them what should I do?

[barrettsline]

my corys are being bullied

What size tank? Can you post a picture of the tank?

[TexSun]

Re: my corys are being bullied

How many guppies?

[troy tucker]

I have never seen guppies be that aggressive. Do you have a place the Cory's can hide? If you give them some rocks to hide in or an old broken flower pot. They have a place to get away. Anything that can brake up the line of site will work.

[troy tucker]

3 bamboo shrimp, 4 nerite snails, 23 neons, 8 amber tetras, 9 guppies, and 4 albino corys. In a 15g tank. I seen the hello post...

[TexSun]

Re: my corys are being bullied

Seems like a lot of fish for a 15g.

[troy tucker]

It really is. he could use a 55g tank but we all grow with our hobby...

[barrettsline]

Id have to agree. Id say a minimum of a 40. I have no experience with guppies other than feeding them to other fish, but im gonna bet on not enough room to house fish, not enough hideing places for the corys, and im also curious if feeding maybe an issue, because i know it there is not enough to go around, fish will fight.

[ScorpiosWife]

That is quite a lot for a 15g. I hope there are places for them to hide or there will be more bullying to come. Guppies can be aggressive when they are hungry. I have roughly 40 of them in a 55g and if I skip a day feeding them, the larger guppies will go after a snail or start nipping fins to the bone.

I learned that not too long ago when I tried to lay off feeding them twice a day & ended up with a "rogue" guppy or two who caused the deaths of 1 of my neon tetras and 1 of my guppies. I did, eventually, successfully get them down to feeding once a day but only after I removed all of the other species (tetras, mollies & platys) from the tank.

[frozenfire641]

Id have to agree. Id say a minimum of a 40. I have no experience with guppies other than feeding them to other fish, but im gonna bet on not enough room to house fish, not enough hideing places for the corys, and im also curious if feeding maybe an issue, because i know it there is not enough to go around, fish will fight.

i gave the tetras and guppies floating pellets and the corys sinking ones but the guppies just love the sinking ones I have lots of driftwood and plants

[troy tucker]

This sounds stupid but it may work...

Try flake food. all the fish you have will eat it. one food one chance to eat.

Just a thought?

[frozenfire641]

sure I'll give it a try

[frozenfire641]

should I mix it first so they will get used to it?

[barrettsline]

na just feed it, theyll eat it

[frozenfire641]

k thanks