Sterbas Corys In Ph 8 Water

SamLovesCorys · Apr 12, 2012

My favourite Corys are the Sterbas variety, however my water is alkaline and I don't really want to tamper with this. Would Sterbas Corys be ok, and if not please suggest some Corys that would!

Thanks, Sam

Alm0stAwesome · Apr 12, 2012

I didn't really want to open this thread for fear of what you were going to say lol. I've stocked my pH 8.0 tank with sterbai as a rubbish test strip kit told me I had a pH of about 6.6 - so I'm praying all is going to be OK. Actually every fish I have in there likes lower pH than 8.0 by quite a ways so now i've got my stress head on about it - woo! I thought about adding bogwood but I don't like tannins and the other natural "remedies" colour the water as well (peat moss and almond leaves).

So I wait in anticipation for the answers you get!

N0body Of The Goat · Apr 12, 2012

While I did not have them long enough to give a conclusive "yes they will be fine" answer, I had a group of ten youngsters that grew up with me early last year until mid summer, when they started to display breeding behaviour. I was a bit gutted when I had to sell these and my group of 11 young Brochis splendens (to the same buyer), but it suddenly dawned on me that my tanks were going to become too stocked with bottom dwellers, leaving little capacity for upper water fish.

My tap water lies in the pH 8-8.2 ballpark, I do tend to use a lot of bogwood in my tanks, which helps to drop the pH perhaps upto 0.2 pH degrees.

SamLovesCorys · Apr 12, 2012

Thanks, really helpful. Hopefully will be able to keep them in my tank! :good:

Mowbz · Apr 12, 2012

Its the higher end of the scale for Corys, but fine for Sterbai. They prefer warmer water than most though, so if you really want them, i would work your stocking around them. They'll be happy up to 28'C, well above what some will tolerate. Some keep them as company for Discus, but then you'll need RO water, and that's a whole other topic in itself.