Betta & Cory Woes!

[millym]

hi
we have just bought our beautiful betta bert a new home and as one of our 5 year old cory pair just died have got 2 new baby peppered corys for our big tank. as we have just bought a new 6ft tank to upgrade our 4ft tropical and are going to change the substrate to sand instead of the gravel which we hate we thought we'd put the baby corys in berts tank so they can have sand to whisker around in until we do the dreaded change from old to new big tank.
all was fine until a few days ago when i noticed one of the baby corys munching on berts tail, our betta likes to rest under a tiger lily plant & when he does this his fins trail on the sand. i thought the cory must have just happened accross this rather tasty finnage & started chewing. i shood it off but after catching the same thing happening a couple more times & berts tail looking a bit worse for wear ive had to move the baby corys into our 4ft tropical tank with gravel which i didnt really want to do.
i know corys are not aggressive & this must have just been unfortunate but ive never heard of anything like this before!!!
bert is now safe to park under the lily without being molested he now shares his new home with 3 baby khulis & a couple of ottos.
has anyone else ever heard of corys with a panchance for betta or any other fishes fins??? id like to hear from you
thanks


berts new home

 

[hollyp0p]

hi
we have just bought our beautiful betta bert a new home and as one of our 5 year old cory pair just died have got 2 new baby peppered corys for our big tank. as we have just bought a new 6ft tank to upgrade our 4ft tropical and are going to change the substrate to sand instead of the gravel which we hate we thought we'd put the baby corys in berts tank so they can have sand to whisker around in until we do the dreaded change from old to new big tank.
all was fine until a few days ago when i noticed one of the baby corys munching on berts tail, our betta likes to rest under a tiger lily plant & when he does this his fins trail on the sand. i thought the cory must have just happened accross this rather tasty finnage & started chewing. i shood it off but after catching the same thing happening a couple more times & berts tail looking a bit worse for wear ive had to move the baby corys into our 4ft tropical tank with gravel which i didnt really want to do.
i know corys are not aggressive & this must have just been unfortunate but ive never heard of anything like this before!!!
bert is now safe to park under the lily without being molested he now shares his new home with 3 baby khulis & a couple of ottos.
has anyone else ever heard of corys with a panchance for betta or any other fishes fins??? id like to hear from you
thanks


berts new home

i guess it just goes to show, it's very much all down to individual fish at the end of the day....having to trade my tetra because they fin nip my betta too....it's rubbish!

 

[TribeOfShroom]

A cory did that to my first male betta, and the betta turned around and killed the cory. Your corys must be brave or stupid lol

 

[hollyp0p]

A cory did that to my first male betta, and the betta turned around and killed the cory. Your corys must be brave or stupid lol

again depends on the betta, my male woulnd't hurt a fly...lol...he ignored the tetra and ignores my pitbull pleco.....the danios (i had 6...now down to 2 which am swapping soon for praecox rainbows) he loves...joins in with them chasing each other about, not all the time but every so often, it's funny to watch

 

[TribeOfShroom]

It was only that male that has killed another fish. Although sadly he passed 4 months later. My current males + females wouldn't hurt anything.. apart from a few snails... or a odd fly lol

 

[Jaded12]

It does all depend on the individual fish. They all have different personalities

 

[catxx]

i had corys munch on an old betta who had developed some fin rot a few years ago.

 

[Jacob Da Jew]

My Betta ripped off the whiskers of my small cory and so Casear is now in his own 2.5 G tank.