Cory’s and driftwood…

[Magnum Man37 152]

it’s well known about cory’s and sand, but I have fine worn river gravel in my tank that holds my sterbai and there are resin hollow logs, as well as 2 fairly large pieces of natural drift wood, and I find my cory’s spend more than half their time on, and around the driftwood pieces… I don’t recall hearing that before do you corybowners find they spend a more than average amount of time on and around driftwood in your tanks???

 

[bgarthe37 55]

Indeed they do . Just a few days ago, I put driftwood and spider wood in three tanks. They absolutely love swimming throughout and around the driftwood.

 

[GaryE]

Biofilm. It's one of the food sources they sift out of sand, so they'll do their best to get it off driftwood as well. Plus it's natural cover to them. We always think of predators as other fish, but the biggest danger in their world is fishing birds. Driftwood's a safe place to relax in. Given how much flooded forest is part of their world, they must have adapted to having a lot of it around.

 

[FattyFish]

I have six Pandas that spend their time between the sand, rocks and wood, even up near the top of the tank. "My wood comes right out of the top", so I would say they aren't that fussy as long as there's something to eat?

 

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What I’m sifting out of the above comments is that these fish are more comfortable in an aquarium with lots of cover in addition to an open sandy area .