Sophia

My first experience of fish breeding was guppy fathers eating their own children :an!gry

I have read it a lot that corydora are happiest when there are 6 or more. I started with 3 adults and they were a bit timid, later got 4 young ones and the group definitely functioned better as a shoal when the younger ones were bigger.

gorgonzola

sequoia

nice (That cat isn't fat, it's just big boned )

ultimatum

time

That was by no means an insult. To call a cat a furry elephant is like calling a woman 'slim' . The bigger the cat, the more cats it can conquer and the more lap it can sit on. I don't have a cat at present &c:ry infinity

icanthus

please do

maybe they are just dying naturally then, of age etc. what sort of pygmy cory are they? hastatus?

regurgitate that isn't a cat, it's a furry elephant

still alive?

Before this becomes a sticky someone should cut out all the conversation so it's just the plain facts so people (like me) who go hunting for information in the search function don't have to trawl through posts looking for the guts. I don't know if anyone else goes here http://www.aquahobby.com/e_freshwater_t ... m_fish.php but they have a section where they start info on a fish and then others can submit their tales. You often get very useful information and lots of contributions in the one place. Obviously these guys are doing it already but the yankees do things differently sometimes, FNZAS might have their own take on it. I don't know if someone gets paid to run the other board, I suspect not for how often it gets updated. that's my 5c worth anyhoo

lynette

Me

They loved Wardleys shrimp pellets, they would hop over to where they had landed and go all alert and then when they had started to break down a bit they would snuffle it up. The other thing they got was the algae wafer, that they would sit by it and guard even though it didn't seem to break up like the pellets. They wanted to eat worms too but the thing is how to get them down to them without the other fish getting there first. Grindals probably the best ones as white worms are rather large for their snouts. I would love to get cories again but I have rough gravel substrate at the moment.

me neither. Or maybe they sound like someone squeezing a duck like a bagpipe haven't tried that either though it could be fun 8)

iatatron

gelato

thanks Smidey

What substrate do they have? I had peppered cories and they had both sand and the autumn harvest smooth gravel. When they weren't being sociable they hid on the gravel as they were quite camoflaged and when food time they went to the sand. They do like less light on the whole as well. Mine used to get all excited when I fed the other fish white worms but nothing ever got to the bottom for them. Cory also like some current and can swim about in it - again this was something I used to notice when the lights had gone off or there was only daylight in the room.

Yum

too late, it's blobbed now next time (though there had better not be one)

oops wrong end of the word haha uetude