What type of cories to get?

[JuiceBox52]

So I'm gonna get 20 cories for my 55 gallon. What type should I get? Preferably ones that are commonly sold at pet stores, so bronz, albino, pepper etc. they will go in a tank with ember tetras, rummynose tetras, otocinclus, phantom tetras, and hatchet fish

 

[Metalhead88]

It is totally up to you. I went with bronze in a similar situation solely because of the price.

Some corries are better looking, but 5x the price.....and when you need 20 of them it adds up fast.

 

[Byron]

Given your ideal water, and the relative closeness of The Wet Spot in Portland...I would myself acquire some of the more rarer species. There are more than 160 described Corydoras species, and all have identical requirements and behaviours (with a couple of exceptions) so the sky is the limit!

I remember back in the 1990's when my preferred fish store in Vancouver used to get wild caught fish every week, and the selection of Corydoras was amazing. I was in cory heaven. I remember going in one Friday evening when the owner greeted me by telling me he had another shipment of adolfoi cories. I took a look at them and immediatel;y knew they were not adolfoi, but Corydoras duplicareus which had been first discovered in the early 1990's and described by David Sands in the July 1995 issue of FAMA. The store carried this fish magazine, and it was August of 1995, so I pulled out the article and the owner changed the sticker. They were the first of the species imported into Canada, and I bought up the group. It is still one of my favourite cory species. Photo below. It is usually seen as "adolfoi" in stores because that name stuck with the pattern after the unique C. adolfoi was discovered in the early 1980's and named by Burgess (1982), but The Wet Spot will have them correctly identified I'm sure.

 

[Byron]

Here is a video of the natural habitat of Corydoras duplicareus, authenticated by Dr. David Sands who discovered this species (and three other similarly-patterned species) during work on his doctoral dissertation in the early 1990's. These creeks which are northern tributaries of the Rio Negro had not previously been explored by non-indigenous peoples. Each creek had one or two distinct species. The new species that resulted as described by Dr. Sands are C. duplicareus, C. serattus, C. amandajanea, C. crypticus.

 

[JuiceBox52]

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Given your ideal water, and the relative closeness of The Wet Spot in Portland...I would myself acquire some of the more rarer species. There are more than 160 described Corydoras species, and all have identical requirements and behaviours (with a couple of exceptions) so the sky is the limit!

I remember back in the 1990's when my preferred fish store in Vancouver used to get wild caught fish every week, and the selection of Corydoras was amazing. I was in cory heaven. I remember going in one Friday evening when the owner greeted me by telling me he had another shipment of adolfoi cories. I took a look at them and immediatel;y knew they were not adolfoi, but Corydoras duplicareus which had been first discovered in the early 1990's and described by David Sands in the July 1995 issue of FAMA. The store carried this fish magazine, and it was August of 1995, so I pulled out the article and the owner changed the sticker. They were the first of the species imported into Canada, and I bought up the group. It is still one of my favourite cory species. Photo below. It is usually seen as "adolfoi" in stores because that name stuck with the pattern after the unique C. adolfoi was discovered in the early 1980's and named by Burgess (1982), but The Wet Spot will have them correctly identified I'm sure.
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That's a good point! Thank you! What do you think the price difference would be? Could I do three or four groups of 5-7 each of different types?

 

[Byron]

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That's a good point! Thank you! What do you think the price difference would be? Could I do three or four groups of 5-7 each of different types?

Check their price list, it is online...I think I sent you the link somewhere but here it is:

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www.wetspottropicalfish.com

There are today over 30 species of Corydoras listed. And yes, you can combine species. I usually try to get five of a species, but sometimes I end up with just three, or maybe one or two, depending upon how many the store has. And sometimes the price. But the main thing is large numbers of cories. That video I posted shows large shoals.

 

[JuiceBox52]

Check their price list, it is online...I think I sent you the link somewhere but here it is:

Shop

www.wetspottropicalfish.com

There are today over 30 species of Corydoras listed. And yes, you can combine species. I usually try to get five of a species, but sometimes I end up with just three, or maybe one or two, depending upon how many the store has. And sometimes the price. But the main thing is large numbers of cories. That video I posted shows large shoals.

Thanks. I have been looking at them for about half an hour my mom likes them but she keeps asking me questions about why I need more than a couple and how are they catfish if otos are catfish but they are different lol

 

[Byron]

There are some lovely cories in that list. I don't know their policy on discounts for groups, some stores do this; when I used to buy 5-6 cories that were say $12 each, I would ask the store owner if he would consider a discount if I took six, and I think they always did. Better to sell the fish, as the longer they keep them the more it costs them to feed them and look after them, so a quick sale for less is advantageous in the long run.

 

[CassCats]

Of the "cheap common" species, bronze all the way lol

But, duplicacareus are very, very beautiful too!

 

[JuiceBox52]

Of the "cheap common" species, bronze all the way lol

But, duplicacareus are very, very beautiful too!

Yes I saw that one! So pretty!

 

[Retired Viking]

I personally like the pepper cory but have albino cory now.