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Thread: which is better, cories or loaches?

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    which is better, cories or loaches?

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    pls advise.. cories or loaches??
    me planning to keep any species of cories.. but if for loaches, only clown loaches.. so, pls advise..
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    what size tank do you have? plants or no plants?
    important factors while choosing btw cories and CLs
    CLs are potentially much bigger while damaging to plants too

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    what size tank do you have? plants or no plants?
    important factors while choosing btw cories and CLs
    CLs are potentially much bigger while damaging to plants too
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    me thinking of keeping a 2ft tank.. and with plants.. so since CLs are damaging to plants.. so out goes the CLs.. thanks Yimin...
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    "CLs are potentially much bigger while damaging to plants too"...hmmmm now I know why I have bite marks on my Amazon Sword.
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    u mean marks like ( ) ?

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    i have to agree with DEA, cos loaches do grow very big if given proper care, tank space and time. u will eventually have to cater a bigger tank for them, and large loaches are wonderful to have but unfortunately most of our loaches dont live that long [] . for me my loaches last only max a couple of months .... maybe im feeding them wrong ?!?!?! []

    corydoras on the hand, are much smaller but not super active like loaches. easier to maintain as they r very hardy little fellas. and its also much easier to locate different species of corydoras than loaches.

    so ... corydoras all the way
    To each her own fish !
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    I have coolie loaches in my planted tank... find them very useful in clearing everything up except algae
    But they are very good scavengers but dun breed your fishes in tanks with coolie loaches![] [] []
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    nice healthy kuhli loaches seems to be pretty difficult to find these days.

    i looked around and ended up buying $2 ones from Rainbow...

    but must say they've the best size & health that i can find.
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    I'm looking for dwarf chain loaches, appreciate if anyone can inform me when u see the fish

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    I also looking for dwarf chain loach (and any fish with a maximum size of below 2 inches).

    Small is beautiful to me, and I find that smallish (2 ft and below) look best when stocked with the tiniest jewels. My rejigged 2 ft now has badis badis, corydoras pygmaeus, pseudoepiplaty (that tiny striped killiefish), and I am looking for another school of mosquito or pygmy rasbora, rasbora axelrodi.

    Another with lobang for the rasboras will get free MM (or M&M) from me.

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    hey, this's not for your MM, but...

    i saw a tank full of mosquito rasboras in a lfs in lorong halus yesterday. yah, they looked so good that i nearly got some. stopped myself cos i topo in and had to topo out in the hot hot sun!

    sorry, forgotten the lot number, but it's the blue roof row of lfs in lorong halus itself, where there's a koi area right at the end.

    cheers!
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    On 3/24/2002 8:57:51 AM

    I also looking for dwarf chain loach

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    me too
    think they're seasonal
    last time i saw them was in c328 and they were TINY

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    rats man... anyway, more pygmy sighted at tiong bahru

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