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Cinnebuns Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 After I get my 29 gallon situated I plan on working on my 10. Heavily considering panda Corys with a betta. Aqadvisor says I could even add neon tetras to that but I'm wary of the betta getting upset with too many roommates. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 On 12/16/2021 at 2:26 AM, Cinnebuns said: After I get my 29 gallon situated I plan on working on my 10. Heavily considering panda Corys with a betta. Aqadvisor says I could even add neon tetras to that but I'm wary of the betta getting upset with too many roommates. Pandas are crazy active using every inch of the tank in mine. You are wise to be cautious of adding tetras too. Depending on your bettas personality he may or may not mind. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JettsPapa Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 On 12/15/2021 at 8:09 PM, Guppysnail said: @JettsPapathey are adorable. I think I would get 😵💫 dizzy watching them forage with that intricate pattern. I've often thought they should have been named Corydoras maze. On 12/15/2021 at 10:26 PM, Beardedbillygoat1975 said: @JettsPapaSeriously that pattern is glorious, I agree with @Guppysnailso much more natural then the sterbai, I love them but these are now on my need list! In the pic on the wet spots website they have an iridescence on the gill plate. @JettsPapahave you seen some with this trait? Too cool if they do! No, I haven't. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted December 16, 2021 Author Share Posted December 16, 2021 @CinnebunsI would not stock a 10 g that heavy. There’s no margin for error in a tank that small. A 20 g long could accommodate that level of stocking. I think @Guppysnailraises a good point about the activity level of the corys as anything that moves my betta DJ Turbo tries to kill. Each one has their personality so it could work for yours. @JettsPapathanks for the info. The Wet Spot has them for $6/fish. Tempting very tempting! Cory mazeii has a certain ring to it! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted December 27, 2021 Author Share Posted December 27, 2021 Well I’ve had cory eggs not from my pandas but from my bronze cory group. Huge surprise from them last week. It’s two reverse trios in there. All the eggs were infertile glowing white and eventually funguses but it bodes well for the future. It looked like the ones they planted on the glass not the Amazon sword leaves were most likely to have been fertilized. I’m looking forward to more of this. I was looking at Dan’s Fish selection of corys and I think that has to be the most dangerous thing a cory lover can do to themselves. It’s without a doubt the worst cory porn on the internet. You start to justify 50-100$ corys and that’s just not ok. I’ll stick with cheap and cheerful bronzes and pandas! Speaking of dangerous things to do I’m headed tomorrow to The Wet Spot. In store and online I think they’ve got 40 corys either online or in-person. Can not wait! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 On 12/27/2021 at 1:33 AM, Beardedbillygoat1975 said: Well I’ve had cory eggs not from my pandas but from my bronze cory group. Huge surprise from them last week. It’s two reverse trios in there. All the eggs were infertile glowing white and eventually funguses but it bodes well for the future. It looked like the ones they planted on the glass not the Amazon sword leaves were most likely to have been fertilized. I’m looking forward to more of this. I was looking at Dan’s Fish selection of corys and I think that has to be the most dangerous thing a cory lover can do to themselves. It’s without a doubt the worst cory porn on the internet. You start to justify 50-100$ corys and that’s just not ok. I’ll stick with cheap and cheerful bronzes and pandas! Speaking of dangerous things to do I’m headed tomorrow to The Wet Spot. In store and online I think they’ve got 40 corys either online or in-person. Can not wait! Resist, resist, resist…stay calm, stay calm….OMG BUY THEM ALL. 🤣. Have fun at Wet Spot. I would love to see pics. I’m non fish east coast so must live vicariously through you folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorydorasEthan Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 On 12/14/2021 at 9:04 AM, Beardedbillygoat1975 said: I call to order the first meeting of the new Panda Cory Appreciation Society. You don’t have to own corys to be part of the group, they don’t necessarily have to be Pandas, and this is just for fun so always look on the bright side of life like our dear Pandas do! Sounds like the group for me! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted December 27, 2021 Author Share Posted December 27, 2021 @CorydorasEthanI was wondering when you’d find us! Welcome Welcome! @Guppysnaili will definitely document my trip well! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 @CorydorasEthan no Cory appreciation group would be complete without you. 😁 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndEEss Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 (edited) On 12/15/2021 at 9:26 PM, Beardedbillygoat1975 said: @JettsPapaSeriously that pattern is glorious, I agree with @Guppysnailso much more natural then the sterbai, I love them but these are now on my need list! In the pic on the wet spots website they have an iridescence on the gill plate. @JettsPapahave you seen some with this trait? Too cool if they do! Not to speak for someone else, but, all of my pandas have iridescence on the gill plate, and many of my peppered have it, too. Also: I know cory cats are sexually dimorphic, particularly in size, but does anyone have peppered cory where their females are lighter and the males darker? Edited December 27, 2021 by AndEEss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorydorasEthan Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 On 12/27/2021 at 12:01 PM, AndEEss said: Not to speak for someone else, but, all of my pandas have iridescence on the gill plate, and many of my peppered have it, too. Also: I know cory cats are sexually dimorphic, particularly in size, but does anyone have peppered cory where their females are lighter and the males darker? Yeah I noticed that too, just the other way around. The males in my experience are a lighter grey, where the females are seem to be darker, sometimes appearing to be a blue or purple. Here is a male. Male and female. Female. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnebuns Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 (edited) I would just like to say that I officially am the proud owner of 6 panda cories! I went to my LFS for many items including panda cories. I did not, however, expect them to have long finned panda cories!! They only had 2 but I was pumped! I will get some pics later. I didn't even know such a thing existed. I am very new so maybe that's why but still I was happy! Too bad they only had 2 of the long fin but that's ok. Got me 4 of the regular too. I was told they are super fun to watch when they are 10+ according to aqadvisor I CAN do 12, but do I WANT to? It's a 29 gallon. Already have 6 glo tetras and 2 guppies. Long term plans are 6 glo tetras, 5 male guppies, and the panda cories. Idk 12 sounds like a lot to me but if it's better for the fish i will do. I def didn't wanna drop all 12 at once regardless and planned 6 at a time either way. Edit: I almost hope my LFS didn't steer me wrong and long and reg fin will school together. So far they are. I guess it would have been responsible to look that up rather than taking his word. Edited December 27, 2021 by Cinnebuns 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 Those long fin pandas 🐼 are beautiful! Great find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 (edited) On 12/27/2021 at 6:15 PM, Cinnebuns said: I would just like to say that I officially am the proud owner of 6 panda cories! I went to my LFS for many items including panda cories. I did not, however, expect them to have long finned panda cories!! They only had 2 but I was pumped! I will get some pics later. I didn't even know such a thing existed. I am very new so maybe that's why but still I was happy! Too bad they only had 2 of the long fin but that's ok. Got me 4 of the regular too. I was told they are super fun to watch when they are 10+ according to aqadvisor I CAN do 12, but do I WANT to? It's a 29 gallon. Already have 6 glo tetras and 2 guppies. Long term plans are 6 glo tetras, 5 male guppies, and the panda cories. Idk 12 sounds like a lot to me but if it's better for the fish i will do. I def didn't wanna drop all 12 at once regardless and planned 6 at a time either way. Edit: I almost hope my LFS didn't steer me wrong and long and reg fin will school together. So far they are. I guess it would have been responsible to look that up rather than taking his word. Some food for thought to help you make your choice on more or not. In my 29g I have 5m/13f adult guppies 1 mystery snail (her elderly friend passed) 1 nerite and panda Cory. I started with 6 and got 5 more from another source (my weird thing to always add different Genetics). And a juvenile lemon BN pleco. Overstocking to an extreme but it’s temporary the pandas are so great I’m giving them their own tank and the BNP is the new cleanup crew. (Edit forgot neocaridina shrimp in there too) It works well even at this ridiculous stock level with large water changes every few day sometimes every other I’m a generous feeder 🤣 I started with 6 panda and they did fine. They were not shy and did not hide but the guppy girls would steal their food 🐷. They were active including some mid water antics. I quarantined the next 5 for a few weeks and added. Now they bulldoze under the girl guppies to steal the food back. They eat my snails wafers right out of the snails foot. They are fearless and play through every inch of the 29. Including swimming with the guppies (then the gupies gun about and follow the pandas hysterical) So either way you go they will be happy and active. Fin length makes no difference to fish. It’s the same as people some have long hair some short but people all the same. Hope that helps or at least sets your mind at ease they will e fine either way. 😁 Congratulations on getting the most fun fish EVER in my not so humble panda loving opinion Edited December 28, 2021 by Guppysnail 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted January 4, 2022 Author Share Posted January 4, 2022 Happy New Year Corydoras lovers! To get the New Year off to a bang here is some video of my tower tank with my group of fantabulous Panda Corys. Here they are at the 17 second mark: In my continued effort to entice more forum members to keep corys here is a great video about some newly discovered and some other amazing Brazilian corys. Have fun cory keeping everyone!~ 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted January 4, 2022 Author Share Posted January 4, 2022 Too cute not to share! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Brutting Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 I love this thread! All the beautiful cory’s and tanks it’s amazing! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Three of my pandas doing what pandas do. 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 He was trying to go into the T position! That’s breeding behavior! Awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 On 1/12/2022 at 9:29 PM, Beardedbillygoat1975 said: He was trying to go into the T position! That’s breeding behavior! Awesome! Yes they lay a lot of caviar for my guppies ☹️ I’m a touch frustrated with the pleco baby buyer dragging their feet. I wanted them picked up before the holidays so I can have my panda playground. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 @Guppysnailyou’ll get there. Both of us will. I have a 20 long with pandas 🐼 written all over it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer V Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 On 1/12/2022 at 8:10 PM, Beardedbillygoat1975 said: @Guppysnailyou’ll get there. Both of us will. I have a 20 long with pandas 🐼 written all over it! I'm almost exactly where you are. I decided yesterday that I want a 20g long as a panda cory tank. I'm so excited! This thread is amazing! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 On 1/21/2022 at 1:58 PM, Jennifer V said: I'm almost exactly where you are. I decided yesterday that I want a 20g long as a panda cory tank. I'm so excited! This thread is amazing! You will be so happy you gave them their own playground. They are like kindergarten kids at recess 🥰 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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