Bronze corys (Corydoras aeneus) are often called "Green cory" around here.

I'm pretty sure in this case, it's genetic. I've had him for several years and it was always like this. My substrate is fine, since all my corys have long barbels, as you can see from this cory's barbels.

just wanted to share a pic of one of my male panda corydoras with a very cool forked barbel. It would be even cooler if 4 of his long barbels were forked, would look like a bushynose cory

I recently found an ebay listing, I am not the seller, for freshwater fairy shrimp eggs. These are similar to brine shrimp but much easier to hatch, supposedly you just drop them intowater and wait a day for them to hatch, no airpump or salt needed. Anyone try this to feed cory fry? Here's the link ...

great tank, gives me inspiration to start a mossy shrimp tank can you tell me what moss you used for the moss tank?

I've got a lot of slugs in my garden eating my veggies, just wondering if I can feed them to my cory cats? i hear they are high in protein like earthworms

I bought them as "whitefin" corydoras if that helps. I don't think they are C. agassizii, the cory is not as pale as the pic shows but it's not as colourful as C. agassizii.

Can someone help me identify this corydoras? thanks

if you didn't mix up your nitrate and nitrite readings, then you should be concerned. A cycled tank should have zero nitrite readings and some nitrate reading. The nitrogen cycle is ammonia -> nitrite -> nitrate

interesting, when I tore down my planted tank, that had plenty of snails, and switched to a mix cory tank, the snails eventually disappeared. I always assumed it was because of the corys efficiancy in eating all the food and therefore no leftovers for the snails.

nerite eggs are quite different then cory eggs. I had nerites and they would lay eggs all over, I've also spawned a few corys. Nerite eggs have a hard shell, cory eggs are "softer"

I read silica sand was a sharp substrate so not appropriate for corys. Have you guys been using silica sand without problems?

I was looking for some fine white sand at the LFS and the only one they carried was Carib Sea Marine fine white sand. The bag says it's for freshwater aswell since it's not supposed to alter ph, but is this safe for corys? Any one use this for their corys?

yeah I was just going to use a small amount, so I guess it's safe. Thanks

Is epsom salt(magnesium sulfate) safe to use on corydoras? I need the magnesium to fertilize my plants. I know it's not safe to use salt on corys but not sure if this applies to epsom salt.

I have a related question, I'm raising 2 panda fry in a floating container, they are a little over 1 cm and are just starting to show their panda markings, when should I release it into the main tank with the other pandas and corys? no problems with other tank inhabitants since it's a cory tank with...

Shrimp love breakfast with egg :wink: I raise hundreds of shrimp along side my Corydoras habrosus and C. hastatus. They don't touch the Corydoras eggs. I started off with 10 each of the Corys about 8 months ago and spawn raise them in permanent 20 gal longs which they share with shrimp. Now I have ...

When I had a pair of Blue rams in my 35 gal mixed cory tank, I would have to move the corys into their own tank if I wanted to breed them. When the rams died, the corys started breeding in their 35 gal, including my pygmy corys.

I think I know what you mean and I've got one female snub nose in my panda school.

I've got a pair of trilineatus that is close to 10 years old and still looking healthy. From my understanding most cories have a lifespan of 10-15 years.

k thanks, I'll add a bunch of java moss into their little box

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I just collected a few pygmy cory fry from my main tank. Can pygmy fry take microworms as their first food or can they only handle infusoria? thanks

sorry wrong thread, but congrats on the weitzmani spawn!

Any tips on catching fry? I need to move some larger panda fry, that have started to eat dried foods, out of the breeding box and move them into their own tank.

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My pandas have been spawning vigorously every other day, always at around 10pm. While one female is depositing eggs in the java ferns, the other females go egg hunting. Is it ok to remove the eggs immediately after they've been laid?

Did you soak your decapsulated brine shrimp cysts in fresh water? That will soften them up whereas a brine solution tends to leave them intact. I have tried the dbbsc myself and my Cory fry did not always seem to recognize them as food. They began accepting them better when I fed them cysts with a ...

Can someone tell me, after soaking the decapsulated brine shrimp eggs, are they supposed to soften up? Mine stay hard no matter how long I soaked them.

Right now I'm raising some sterbai fry, and once I've freed up a tank I'll try to spawn my pandas. I've been trying to feed decapsulated brine shrimp eggs, but the fry treat them like sand, in it goes and out it goes through their gill plate. That's why I want to give the hatchable ones a try. Do yo...

When the baby brine shrimps hatch, do they swim all over the tank? If so how do you feed them to cory fry since they stay at the bottom of the tank?

Hi, Just want to share some pics of my 30gal mixed cory tank. I've had community tanks in the past but enjoyed the corys the most, so I decided to set up a tank just for them :D Residents are: 2 bronze 9 pandas 4 metae 4 melini 16 pygmeaus 12 sterbai 7 duplicareus 6 habrosus 6 schwartzi 3 elegans 2 ...