Corydoras Behaviour

[pipsqueak]

Hi, besides foraging the bottom searching for worms, hiding in caves etc.
what are their other behaviours? Can't seem to find a site that explains their behaviours..
There's some hair algae on my vals and i've noticed my C.pandas grazing the plants, as if searching for snails, or eating algae? Do they?
Thanks.

[CoryDorus]

Never heard or seen them eating Algae or Snails.
They are quite "blind". So probably sniffing around.

[clothahump]

I have always attributed this behaviour to them searching for food, there will be a lot of microscopic life in the living amongst the algae.
Pygmaeus and Hastatus are more likely to feed in this way from what I have witnessed.

[pipsqueak]

thanks for the reply,i was just curious asi;vealways thought of them strictly as bottom feeders.They've certainly liven things up "foraging" the upper parts of the drift wood. Even my clown swims at all levels, and sometimes the kuhli.

And yea,any of you cory fanatics know where i can get a good reference book on corydoras? I've tried borders and kinokuniya,is ordering online the last option? What about that guy, Dr Ian? Can't seem to find his book anywhere. Are there any LFS that carry a wide selection of books?

thanks!

[philtre]

yo pipsqueak!

check out the website of I. Fuller. His book can be bought here too.

http://www.corydoras.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.html

hope that helps.

[pipsqueak]

i forgot that i already asked in the other thread. thanks anyway!

[pipsqueak]

oh yea philtre,whats that cory called in ur album,the picture titled Mount Corydoras? The polka dotted one with a line near the bottom end of the cory. It isn't a sterbai right?

[danny]

If you r refering to pic 9 in the album , it is C. Trilineatus.

[pipsqueak]

that's it! thanks danny!

[philtre]

yups ... danny's right. it's a trili.

[chia2k]

do cory eat worms or are they algae eater ?

[pipsqueak]

yeap, they do! i dont think they are algae eaters....at least i doubt so, mine loves blood worms, heck, everyone in the tank ,esp the bumblebee goby but the otos love bloodworms, even the malayan shrimps!