Doubleace's Corydoras Tank

**freshfish** · 21st Dec 2008, 01:22

im impressed by your cory collection dude ...

i shall post mine soon

**doubleace** · 21st Dec 2008, 07:05

Thanks bro, you shall post yours and share too...

**Jervis** · 21st Dec 2008, 10:43

Your wood arrangement is very nice offering plenty of roaming space for the Cories... do you provide any special hiding cave for your L134 or they just happily hide behind/underneath those wood?

**doubleace** · 21st Dec 2008, 12:58

Jervis,
Thanks.. You sure can do better then me/us.

Your planted and marine already so beautiful. Nope i did not provide any cave for the L134 they just hide between the wood as there's some gap inbetween the wood.

**cobber** · 21st Dec 2008, 13:11

I feel your tank not clean.
grow up your filter power I think so

**doubleace** · 28th Dec 2008, 01:10

Would like to get somemore pleco for this comm tank but is there any other pleco that can comm with my cories and L134?

So far I'm thinking of getting either:
L204
L104
L173
L260
L340
L168
L351
L329
Adonis

Which of this above are suitable?

**doubleace** · 30th Dec 2008, 22:24

One question to ask, can i keep shrimps with my cories and pleco?

**fishpoo** · 2nd Jan 2009, 10:28

guess it's my turn to answer your question, haha... anyway i guess it depends on what shrimp you want to keep with cories.... i think larger shrimp would be fine... and depending on the PH of your water, and temperature... i guess yamatos should be ok... but i think some people have come across yamatos eating sick or dead fish..

**celticfish** · 2nd Jan 2009, 12:43

On shrimps with plecos...
I have kept cherry shrimps in my pleco tanks.
They can multiply out of hand if you feed well.
The plecos do predate upon them as I notice the shrimp population "stabilizing" after the pleco population was "max'ed out" for the tank.
I would add that if you create a "refuge" for the shrimplets you can get good population growth.

On plecos with corys, that I'm familiar with, these should be ok:
L173
L260
L340
L168

Stay away from the adonis!
They look cute when they are small but can grow to 1 meter long!
Why not just leave it as a cory tank?

**doubleace** · 2nd Jan 2009, 16:19

Originally Posted by fishpoo

guess it's my turn to answer your question, haha... anyway i guess it depends on what shrimp you want to keep with cories.... i think larger shrimp would be fine... and depending on the PH of your water, and temperature... i guess yamatos should be ok... but i think some people have come across yamatos eating sick or dead fish..

fishpoo,
hahaha... we are here to share our thoughs... ok i have bought 50 malayan shrimp and put in. Why i choose malayan cause they come in different colors and cheap so wont be too bored seeing the same color of shrimps in the tank and if something happen to them (touch wood) i wont be so hard pain. I just need some of them to clear the waste in the tank.

Originally Posted by celticfish

On shrimps with plecos...
I have kept cherry shrimps in my pleco tanks.
They can multiply out of hand if you feed well.
The plecos do predate upon them as I notice the shrimp population "stabilizing" after the pleco population was "max'ed out" for the tank.
I would add that if you create a "refuge" for the shrimplets you can get good population growth.

On plecos with corys, that I'm familiar with, these should be ok:
L173
L260
L340
L168

Stay away from the adonis!
They look cute when they are small but can grow to 1 meter long!
Why not just leave it as a cory tank?

Irwin,
Regarding the plecos in my community tank i also scare that it may fight with my 2 L134 inside..

I saw the L236 not bad very nice. But cant be found in any lfs. Ya adonis are cute when they are small but it will be a headache when they grow big. Thats why i hold back. I think i will just leave it as cory tank in that case. I'm also thinking of putting some plants like bolbitis in it. Will it be good?

**Gecko** · 2nd Jan 2009, 17:03

this thread got me back to cories again....currently keeping 6 C. pulchers and 6 C. fowleri...

**doubleace** · 2nd Jan 2009, 23:44

Hi Gecko,

welcome back to cories collection.

I also inspired by your L46 tank.

But cant afford to spend too much on it first.
Trying on L134 first then slowly upgrade.

Where you got your cories from? Mind sharing with me?

**doubleace** · 3rd Jan 2009, 00:18

New Tankmates

Corydoras robineae

Sorry for the blur pic as they keep swimming around non-stop.

**doubleace** · 3rd Jan 2009, 01:32

Guys,

wanted to know how many pellets do you feed to your cories?

Example
20 cories in a tank, how many pellets you got to feed?

I got total of 48 cories, 2 whiptail, 2 L134 and 4 otocinclus in my tank and i feed a total of 20 pellets twice a day. Am I overfeeding them or not?

**Gecko** · 3rd Jan 2009, 11:30

Hi doubleace

I got my fowleri from Tiong Bahru Ben and pulcher from 328. I also have 2 dozens+ of C. Adolfi and some dupli in another tank from both places too.