Kribs & cories

[Elisabeth83]

I got a pair of kribs yesterday to keep in my 30 gallon along with 5 cories and 6 harlequin rasboras. They are about 1.5-2 inches at the moment. Of cource I read up on keeping kribs and on a lot of sites it said they were great community fish and could be kept with schooling fish as well as cories. Now after reading A LOT more sites and searching the forum I've read terrible stories about kribs not only attacking eachother but attacking cories and schooling fish even killing them or seriously injuring them

One of the reason why I decided to get kribs was because I thought they would get along with my cories. I thought they were hardy peaceful cichlids. I'm sitting here thinking I made the wrong decision??

Is there anyone here who has sucessfully kept a pair of kribs with cories and schooling fish in a 30 gallon?

 

[black angel]

maybe if you had just got one krib or two females then i dont think you would have had a problem, but as they grow they will start to lay eggs and thats when they become aggressive to other fish. if the corys are quick then they should be ok, but i have had kribs with other fish but not corys.
just watch them for any real aggression and then decide what you want to do.

 

[Elisabeth83]

maybe if you had just got one krib or two females then i dont think you would have had a problem, but as they grow they will start to lay eggs and thats when they become aggressive to other fish. if the corys are quick then they should be ok, but i have had kribs with other fish but not corys.
just watch them for any real aggression and then decide what you want to do.

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I guess I might have to get rid of the cories if they become aggressive towards them What other fish have you kept yours with?? The rasboras I moved in from another tank I've got just because the kribs were acting scared. I eventually want to move the rasboras back to the other tank and get another kind of top dwelling schooling fish.

 

[pica_nuttalli]

i'd say "the smaller, the better". my kribs pretty well ignore the smaller fish in the tank except for when the fry were barely free-swimming. if you want to draw further aggressive attention from your small dither fish, add a small armored plec like a bristlenose.

the short period of time i had cories in my tank, it really seemed like the bottom levels were just too rough for them. i agree with removing them from the tank.

 

[The-Wolf]

kribs tend not to tollerate any bottom dwellers.
my pair hassle the khulies that share the same tank, but only at feeding time, and the khulies just burrow in the sand then poke their heads out to see if they have gone

 

[MXPX4318]

yep I had cories in w/ my kribs and when they spawned it was hell for the cories so they got moved to another tank, I do however keep rasboras w/ my kribs, they are usually fast enough to escape the kribs if the kribs get too aggressive.

Phillip

 

[Elisabeth83]

i'd say "the smaller, the better".  my kribs pretty well ignore the smaller fish in the tank except for when the fry were barely free-swimming.  if you want to draw further aggressive attention from your small dither fish, add a small armored plec like a bristlenose.

the short period of time i had cories in my tank, it really seemed like the bottom levels were just too rough for them.  i agree with removing them from the tank.

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Well if I have to pick between the kribs and cories it looks like the cories will have to go I'm feeling real down about that though because like I said before one of the reasons I went with the kribs was because I thought they could go with cories. There are sites that even list cories as good tank mates

So all small top dwelling schooling fish I can keep with the kribs? What about non-schooling top dwelling fish? I know nothing too big or with flowing fins like gouramis or angels.

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[Elisabeth83]

Alright I made some room in another tank so the cories have moved house

 

[black angel]

the only fish that i kept in the lower regions with the kribs were the plecs and they could take the harrassment from them. i have mainly tetra types and they just ignore those or if they chase them they get out the way quick. youre right about not keeping them with flowy finned fish as they will actively seek them out to bite them.