Cories for my 20g?

Karackle · 06-19-2008, 07:57 PM

Well, my 20g is stabilized now (WOOHOO!) Aside from the very sad loss of one of my female bettas, everyone, including the newly added Otos, is doing extremely well, and the plants look great! The crypt spiralis is alway pearling like mad when I come home from work!

Anyways, now that we're stabilized I was thinking of adding a few more fish to round out the tank. I was originally just going to add back the 2 glowlights i lost when the pH was very low, and perhaps another couple of neons and glowlights, however, the 7 neons and 5 glowlights regularly school together, so I'm thinking of putting something else in there instead. I fell in love with the adorable pygmy cories I put in my 5g that sadly did not make it. Would these be a good option for the tank? Is there a larger cory (easier to find

) that I should look at instead? Or do we think I am too heavily stocked to add a small shoal of any sized cory?

Tank is 20g high, penguin biowheel filter, for stocking see my signature, an d for more tank specifics, click the link

As ever, thanks in advance for the helpful advice I know i'll get!

orb4me · 06-21-2008, 10:29 AM

sounds pretty full to me for a new tank, but who am I to say. I have two 55's that look empty. (Shark and a few others have made it a preditor tank) 4 parrot fish in other 55. 15 gourims in a fairly new 29 gal, and nothing in the 10 gal that I bought back in dec when I thought getting a little

fish tank and just a few fish would be a good idea.

Karackle · 06-23-2008, 01:04 AM

Hahaha I know that feeling! This is actually not a new tank though, it's been up and running for over two years now, i switched over to planted starting in December, it was already a well-established tank at that point. I've had a few ups and downs along the way of course, nothing tooooo major, but who hasn't right? It's the 5g that is more prone to disasters being so small, so i like keeping that one a bit under-stocked now.

Karackle · 06-25-2008, 11:24 PM

And they gave me extra! I asked for 6 but said if that only left 1 or 2 I'd take them, we thought there was only 2 left, ended up being for. So I came home with 10 Corydoras pygmaeus but only charged for 8. I thought that was a pretty good deal! I have enough to try a few in my 5g again if I want to. I'm a little worried about overloading the bioload in there though.

Anyway, they're currently drip-acclimating to the 20g. I think i'll QT them using some water from the 20g, I can't decide if I should just stick them straight into the 20g though. They're from the same batch that I got cories from a few weeks ago, so I imagine they're the heartiest, disease free ones, but that doesn't rule out bringing disease IN to the tank and other fish. So I suppose I just answered my own question :-P I'll see how many survive QT (hopefully all!) before deciding whether to try some in my 5g again. It'll probably depend a lot on whether that tank is still stable, and how much the plants have grown in!

Pics of the new additions to come...

Karackle · 06-26-2008, 12:33 PM

Here are some pics of the little guys in their QT home. They all look really happy and healthy so I probably won't leave them in there for too too long, but better safe than sorry since i've been too lucky thus far with not getting disease outbreaks by not QTing fish.

Any here are the new additions:

Schooling together:

Resting together: (i'm not sure what setting I had the camera on that this came out so orange, but i thought it was a cool pic anyway)