Cories boring??? Cories are fabulous! Different sizes, shapes, and personality. Keep 6 or more and discover the magic the these mini-catfish. Definitely my favorite catfish - and cats like to watch them swim up and down the glass too!
I love them. 4 in my 32 g bowfront with a betta. 3 males and 1 female . Betta usually just flex up trying to hog up the shrimp pellets I drop in there but the panda Cories dont care much about him and keeps trying to get to the pellets. They actually help keep my tank clean not allowing anything to build up. the debris floating around after they dig around for food was the only thing that you can not do anything about .
Just got 2 of them for our betta community 38 bow front planted tank.... and well... I love how they sit there wagging there tail like a dog. So far so good
I love corys. I never got the hype until I had some of my own but I love that they are out and about and active! Personally I have a school of albinos and I really would love more. They surprised me how interactive they are.
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I am not sure where the concept came from that anything other than sand was not good for corys. I use to keep them on pea gravel all the time. I think... The idea came from the food getting lost in the crevices of gravel and the fish wouldn't have a difficult time finding it if sand substrate was used. Sharp edge substrate can cause issues on bottom feeders but smooth gravel has always been fine for me.
@@sybrenhartgers9768 KLs are always sold as hearty fish that are for beginners. Not all that true. Like Oto cats also sold as such they can be quite sensitive to water parameter changes more so than most “beginner” fish. But the ones who survive the shock and settle into their new home will be easy from there on out. Just watch water parameters and try and not change large amounts of water in water changes unless it’s necessary. 10-15% chances best. They get so sensitive to water changes that even if you have high nitrates in tank and they get used to it? Changing it to lower nitrates all at one time actually can shock them because they don’t handle the water parameter change well. Even if it’s a “good” change. Slowly change water if nitrates are too high. I recommend this with all fish. Some do not agree and call me crazy. But chance 10% over 5 days once a day to get a 50% change is better then 50% change at once. But yeah KLs are awesome if they settle into tank well. They will not do well if tank is not FULLY cycled typically one that is not only cycled but seasoned a bit. I call that a tank that takes on it’s post cycle personality. Get worn in has bio filters working all over, on rocks, media, decorations plants etc. Micro organisms have time to get established. You don’t see them but there is a phase where a tank gets you know they are there. Also they are very shy and won’t last long in a tank without lots of places to hide. It sounds counter initiative but they will be more active and show themselves more the more places you give them to hide. Because they feel less insecure. Most fish are this way. Another fish that drives me nuts that isn’t sold right it Oto catfish “algae eaters” they indeed don’t exist on only algae. Vast majority sold in Pet stores to beginner or casual hobbyist die. They also require a seasoned well established tank and don’t deal with sudden water parameter changes well at all. They also starve to death lot because people don’t feed them vegetables regularly.
Nothing wrong with different opinions. It how we learn from each other. I had Discus for 5 years had no real problem with them. It just got boring. Not rely in to Cory's but I have had them in the past. I do like clown loaches and yoyo loach. Top video thanks buddy 🎅🎁🎄⛄👍
I’ve been keeping some fish for the past few months and recently I bought three of these from a local shop instead of the big company pet stores as I wanted to give that a shot instead. Unfortunately the first fish was dead before I even got home. It had some red spots or maybe even blood around it’s gills. I’ve been monitors all the levels to make sure the water was ready for this and I even took a sample to the store which confirmed it was good. 4 days in a second died (leaving me with 2 as they gave me a replacement for the 1st) and this fish also had the bloody red dot looking gills. Two were fine for about a week and then one more died; same issue red blood dots on gills, they were only housed with tetras and they paid them no mind at all so I’m not sure what happened. My last one is still growing it seems and swims just fine and very strong. I’m not sure what happened, any community thoughts? All my other fish seems right as rain and every level is definitely in the safe zone. Weekly to bi-weekly water changes depending on nitrite levels FYI.
Hmm, maybe check your ammonia levels? I've hear high ammonia is like cooking /burning the fish in the water. Maybe source of the blood in gills? I also adopted 2 pandas that were donated to a store and the larger one died the second night from stress and lack of aeration. Hoping to find some more after I bought a proper filter this time. Still have 1 but don't want it lonely so I got 2 albinos. Hard to find pandas here though. Good luck! I had a similar issue w the large one having redness around the gills too
I lost 2 pandas last night, I’ve got one left in my tank and unsure why they died, I thought they were more hardened compared to other corydoras. My remaining one is swimming really fast around the tank but all my other fish and bristlenose are okay????
I love Cory catfish, perfect bottom dwellers for my tanks. Lovely, active, helpful and easy! I got two kinds( Sterbai and false julii) in my 29g and I never have to gravel vac because they keep it so clean! I’m trying a pair of pandas for my 10g and see how well they do. Did some pretty bad experiments with them in a 5g Betta tank when I first started keeping fish.
I've got ten of these little guys . 7 pandas and 3 Julie's and they're awesome, always busy cleaning and scouring the bottom of the tank. If anything would be hard on their barbells wouldn't it be sand it's Sharper and more abrasive.
When i started I never cleaned under decorations. I had my tank for about 5 years. I was DISGUSTED when I finally cleaned under them. Never knew it would get underneath things.
I don't know who would think these are boring unless they never had them. I love my panda cories. But I can't keep them alive. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I have them on eco complete and sand in the middle for them to play on. When they die I see no evidence of disease. I know you are busy, but if you have time to give some small tips, I'll take your advice carefully. Thanks!
I love their behaviours in sand substrate, they take a bunce of sand into their mouth and filter it out through the gills, in my opinion having gravel instead of sand in a cory tank makes you lose some very cool interesting behaviour.
Cory cats boring? Nope. And I am a guy who has kept all sorts of odd ball fish. I am the weirdo fish guy that likes making community tanks out of all oddball fish that are strange, weird looking, hard to find etc. But I LOVE Cory cats. Peaceful active adorable fish. They are just not very smart. They aren’t🤷🏻♂️. If you put them with any fish that need boundaries and it territorial? The Corys will ALWAYS keep going back over and over and getting nipped. For some reason I have noticed this is a thing with them. Other fish get the clue and will understand no go zones Cory’s do not. I have had awesome tanks of all kinds and fish. But my favorite tank is my heavily planted rimless Endler Cory tank. Insane the beauty you can get from a tank with thriving plants and colorful active Endlers up top and beautiful active Cory’s on bottom. It looks amazing. The contrast is nuts. The summering activity on bottom the greenery between the Endlers shimmering on top.
yee, love' m !!!! Some info about corydoras albino... Most Corydoras albino are from the aeneus type. I recentely saw albino from sterbai in a LFS (or should ik say FL, because a don't mind 1 hour extra driving to go the a fish store).... I breed cory venezuela orange, and have now 5 albino from my venezuela corydoras breeding group.
I just started a cory tank yesterday. I was told not to feed them the first day and let them eat the left over food that I used to feed the beneficial bacteria. The cories cleaned my tank overnight. It looks nicer now. My ammonia spiked, but I dosed the tank with more bacteria and did a 30% water change. I am putting in more plants to increase oxygen.
These guys are my favorite, I have some peppered, some three line, and a big group of the cutest tiny salt and pepper dudes, I have moved my decor around and managed to get the driftwood in such a way it’s opened up the bottom of the tank so they have way more area to sift through the sand, the peppered I have noticed will go and sit in my floating plants cleaning away the food caught in them too, they refuse to conform to their label as bottom feeders! 😂 they just got some bronze and albino in my lfs, so that’s my next purchase.
I love Cory's. Peaceful, active some of them like the Lasers are stunning. The Panda is my all time favorite. Cory's are usually not that pricey, so you don't have to spend a lot of money.
@@louismm777 I like all Cory's, but I can't say why the Panda's are my favorite exactly. I like the markings, to me they are quite different from most. I like their activity, they are a bit smaller which works for one of my tanks. Back when I had aquariums in the 60's and 70's there were no Panda's, so for me it is a new animal. I just like what I like.
Pandas are probably my favourite Cory’s. I do find they are a little more sensitive to water parameters than other cories. Also very impressed at how active they were in the 20 long. Btw I have a betta with a bunch of cories too 😁
Actually, the most common substrate is white coarse sand for Corys. Just saying, they really do prefer coarse white sand, it imitates their natural environment quite well, plus they do have to work pretty hard to move big pieces of gravel around. They are pretty tiny.
I hate when the main subject of the video only starts 2-3 minutes in. Palmer Aquatics often do this. I guess it's great for longtime subscribers who watch everything, but for people just stumbling by and looking for a straight answer on a specific subject, it feels like clickbait and will not make people subscribe. Just sayin'.
