Think corys will be safe for my platy tank?

[tsr770]

I have my 40 long tank set up and am starting to stock up on a few platys, planning to let them go at it and have the little ones grow up in the tank with the adults. But.... I wanted to get a school of corys to keep the excess food cleaned up off of the bottom, my only fear is that they will also suck up any little ones that they run across. Anyone done this? Think they will be baby eaters, or will they be good little corys?

If not corys, any other fish that could do the job and not eat anything that they shouldn't?

 

[Arashi]

I have 3 Skunk Corys in a tank with 8 Guppies. The Guppies have already bred, and there have been zero problems with the Corys eating the fry...they just tend to ignore the little babies. I think you should be fine if you decide to add a nice school of Corys.

 

[Tolak]

I keep a small panda cory in a 10 gallon with angel fry. They don'y bother the youngest fry at all.

Tolak

 

[GuppyDude]

if the fry is resting or hideing down in the gravel the cory will most definately eat it, no dout about it, but most fry will hang out in the weeds. corys will not take chase to fry or bother them in any way. my therory is that they mistake it for a dead fry and eat it, that is what they do.

 

[Mogurako]

I have never had any problems with my cories. Plattie fry are pretty darn fast and even if they are resting on the bottom will get out of the way fast enough to avoid getting eat'n by the cories.

Jesse

 

[bluefire]

well if i can keep them with danio fry, i'd say u could keep them with livebearer fry

 

[purple_drazi]

I'm new to cories so I've been doing some research and one source said "Best kept as a small group rather than alone or in pairs. Individual cories, without companions, will waste away." So I'm putting 3 in my 12g just so that they're happier.

 

[tsr770]

Yeah I am planning on at least 6 if not 8 corys all of the same species.