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When I got my three albino corries the lady at the pet store told me that they liked to be in groups of 3 and min. of 3. I don't think I can have 3 more in my 20 gallon tank as I also have 7 guppies in there. Is it horrible to have only three corries?
That lady also told me that cories eat algae but I haven't seen them eat algae and the internet tells me that they eat leftover food not algae being the reason I was buying cories.
I am starting to think that I can't believe anything the pet store employee tells me.
I really like your quotes in blue and green at end of reply. I agree but sometime it is hard to follow through. I have had a bit of a struggle with nitrates, perhaps over feeding or not cleaning enough so I will wait a month or two to get a handle on that and then look into getting 3 more cories and some more plants. I do have 2 java ferns atm. I have been hoping the cories would help me not overfeed by them eating the extra flakes but have been also giving them tetra pleco wafers (algae wafers), and API bottom feeder shrimp pellets. How do I really know if I am feeding the cories enough? Also the cories won't die simply because there are only 3 of them right? So there isn't too much rush in getting 3 more.
Well on April 24 the nitrates was 80 ppm so I cleaned the tank real good and since it has been 40 or lower. Last I checked being yesterday it was 30 ppm. I have checked the tap water and there was no nitrates. Should I check the tap water multiple times or was the one time I checked enough? Ah ok thought java ferns grew fast but they don't seem too. The shrimp pellets I have are quite small like the size of a pin head or so. Well another part of the reason I don't want to get more cories right aways is that I will be gone for 2 weeks in June here. So I thought it would be best to wait until I get back. Then too I would get more plants. Well I suppose more plants might be better to get first since they would help keep the tank healthy while I am gone. Oh and what is this about snails? How do they help?
Good to know thanks. I found some water spangles or salvinia minima. Originally the person thought it was water sprite she had but got the names mixed up. What do you think of those? She also said it wouldn't be snail free so it looks like I will get snails too.
I had snails a while ago but one died, not sure why and the second I think died from being stuck in an ornament. It was floating about the tank. From what I have read they like to just float and find it fun but it was getting pummeled by the water coming out of my filter and I thought that must be unpleasant, to go around just to be pummeled again. So I set him inside an ornament thinking he could let himself down and not keep getting pummeled. I didn't see him for a week or so and then I checked and he had died and rotted within that ornament. So I am thinking this time just leave them do their thing even if it seems painful. Is that the best idea?
Hey so I just got 3 Julii corys. I thought when at the pet store that different species were ok but some others on the internet say its not so good. It looks like in your past post that you said it was fine. Just thought I would say something because if 3 cories of two different species isn't ok well then I give up trying to make them happy. I never got enough info before getting these fish and it is proving difficult to adapt after the fact.