Share Your Cory Catfish Pictures

[CorydorasEthan]

Hello everybody,

As you could probably tell, Corydoras are my favorite fish. Post your pictures of your cory cats here along with the species name if possible.

Here I have my albino and green cories (C. aeneus), both adult and baby peppered cories (C. paleatus), and pygmy cories (C. pygmaeus.). 

Thanks!

Edited January 10, 2021 by CorydorasEthan

[JettsPapa]

I like them also.  I don't have any pictures handy, but I have corydoras trilineatus in my 40 gallon breeder, pandas in the 65, and corydoras pygmaeus in my 20 long (all community tanks).

[CorydorasEthan]

Nice! C. trilineatus are a favorite of mine. I've kept one before (I found it alone in a petsmart tank) and kept it with a couple of peppered cories. He was always so active and happy, so I was heartbroken when he died of ich along with the rest of the fish in the tank. Pygmy cories are also really cool, I plan on getting more so they school better. I've never personally kept pandas, but I heard they are fun too.

[JettsPapa]

13 hours ago, CorydorasEthan said:

Nice! C. trilineatus are a favorite of mine. I've kept one before (I found it alone in a petsmart tank) and kept it with a couple of peppered cories. He was always so active and happy, so I was heartbroken when he died of ich along with the rest of the fish in the tank. Pygmy cories are also really cool, I plan on getting more so they school better. I've never personally kept pandas, but I heard they are fun too.

 

I only have 7 pandas right now, but plan to add at least 5 more.  I'm seeing very little schooling activity from them now, but hopefully that will change when I add more.

I'm really enjoying watching the pygmys in the 20 long that's sitting on a file cabinet at the end of my desk.  I started out with just a handful, and they'd swim around in ones and twos.  I keep adding a few, and every time I do I see more schooling.  I've lost count, but there's somewhere around 12 now, and I'll probably add 5 more.

[Steph’s Fish and Plants]

This is perfectly timed as I just got my first ever cories, the habrosus corydoras. They’re so cute! 

[CorydorasEthan]

Nice! I always liked hasbrosus cories but I've never gotten the chance to keep them.

[Lemon]

On 1/11/2021 at 9:22 PM, Steph’s Fish and Plants said:

This is perfectly timed as I just got my first ever cories, the habrosus corydoras. They’re so cute! 

let me know how they do on gravel I'm trying to decide if i should cap my eco complete with sand 

[FrozenFins]

2 hours ago, quirkylemon103 said:

let me know how they do on gravel I'm trying to decide if i should cap my eco complete with sand 

I've had corydoras on a gravel substrate with no problems.

[CorydorasEthan]

2 hours ago, quirkylemon103 said:

let me know how they do on gravel I'm trying to decide if i should cap my eco complete with sand 

I have had both peppered cories (Corydoras paleatus) and bronze/albino cories (Corydoras aeneus) on gravel without any problems. I did eventually move them to a tank with a full sand bottom after a year on the gravel substrate.

Hope this helps.

[Steph’s Fish and Plants]

My habrosus are on eco complete and I’ve noticed no issues so far. Cory collected corydoras in the wild and showcased they were among a very sharp substrate at the time. I don’t remember the exact video but i think it’s one of the Peru collection videos from 2019 in the Aquarium CoOp channel. 

[Sliceofnature]

Ive really fallen in love with corydoras also. They’re so interesting to watch and just have so much personality. Here are some photos of mine. 
 

These are my Trilineatus Corys as youngsters, just after i got them from aqua Huna.
 

Then they had babies...

Those are pretty much grown up too now

and I also have some pygmy corys which are equally as awesome. But ive struggled with them so far and havent got them breeding just yet.a little harder to see here unless you zoom in

[FishyJames]

One of my 12.

[Odd Duck]

I’ve got around a dozen bronze (AKA green) cories (Corydoras aeneus) and climbing.  They are currently in a 20G high holding tank with lots of plants that are also in holding.  Everyone will go into my 100G tank once it’s ready.  Plants first, then cories once the tank is fully cycled.  I have well-seasoned, mature sponge filters going in and HOB’s filled with matured sponge, too, for the tank.  I will just need to wait until all the plants settle and the substrate (sand capped dirt) and wood pieces are done doing their new tank thing.  I’m hoping for about 3-4 weeks, we’ll see.

I’m not certain how many cories I have because I just spotted a youngster for the first time yesterday!  It’s been pretty crowded with plants and my matured driftwood pieces.  I’ve also spotted at least 5 tiny cory fry in the 20G long I set up for my pea puffers to go into eventually (also maturing sand capped dirt).  It got some of the plants that were in the cory tank and must have had eggs or very tiny fry hitching a ride!

I don’t have a decent pic of the half grown one, too fast!

I’ll get a count when I transfer them to the 100 gallon.  I still can’t believe it took so long to spot the half grown one!  I watch that tank at least a few minutes every day to check on everybody.  It’s the first time I’ve spotted this little one and I KNOW I didn’t put one in that was that small.  They’ve only been in that tank one month today and it’s already an inch long nose to tail tip!  They did spawn the first time for me just two days after getting into this tank.  Fat and happy when I got them from a guy shutting down his fish room.

 

 

Edited January 28, 2021 by Odd Duck

[Tracie_Mazzola]

I recently picked up 7 corydora habrosus. They are so cute and derpy. I think I might change them to a tank with lighter substrate down the road. I just love them!

Edited January 28, 2021 by Tracie_Mazzola
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[Jenalee23]

I have julii, sterbai, Pygmy, emerald greens, peppered and am waiting for my new gold lasers to ship next week! LOVE corys. 

Here is a pic of the lasers that are coming. I am beyond excited to finally get some. 

[Nana Finopolis]

I have 10 paleatus cories in my 40 gal. This is two of them. Love, love, love the wiggles.

Edited January 29, 2021 by Nana Finopolis

[Makule808]

Do corys do ok on dwarf hair grass carpeted tanks?

[CorydorasEthan]

4 hours ago, Makule808 said:

Do corys do ok on dwarf hair grass carpeted tanks?

I keep them with dwarf hairgrass right now, but I don't know because my hairgrass has not carpeted the tank yet. I would assume it would be okay (especially with smaller Corydoras species) because cories don't normally harm plants. I would be careful with larger cories because they might accidentally harm the plants.

[Odd Duck]

Just spotted a new, baby in the main cory holding tank!  Looks to be about 10-14 days older than the tiny ones in the soon to be pea puffer tank, but half the size of half-grown one already spotted in the same tank.

 

[Odd Duck]

I have now seen at least 8 babies in the soon to be puffer tank!  How am I ever going to get them all out?  I just planted this tank on the 17th!  The plants are barely getting rooted!

I didn’t expect this tank to even be close to ready for fish by now, yet these babies are hanging in there!

I’ve been using sticks to test because I only needed to watch for when the nitrites started coming down.  So, on the first API drop test today shows ammonia at zero, nitrites at 0.25, nitrates at 10.  Babies acting like they’re happy as clams, all over the tank like typical good little cories!  🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m quite certain they hatched at the height of the worst parameters, but I didn’t even test until a full week in because there was no point.  There’s no way params *wouldn’t* be crazy high.

Poor little baby cories swimming around in the goop like it’s no big deal!  😆 

[Odd Duck]

DIY soda bottle fish trap for the win!  Eight out so far and back in the cory tank (big enough to not get eaten, now!).  At least 2 more good sized ones still in there and probably at least a couple smaller ones, so fish trap is baited and waiting.  I’ll leave that thing in there for the next 4 weeks while pea puffers are getting their deworming treatments.  Hopefully I’ll get them all.  I don’t want them to be puffer food!

[Odd Duck]

Soooo, the latest in the cory retrieval and repatriation saga:  I’ve had to modify the fish trap to make it harder for them to get out!  Someone has figured out how to get back out and is using the bait in the trap for their own, personal supply.  The giveaway was repeated sightings of tiny, cory poop inside the trap with no cories caught in a couple days.

I’ve added a couple layers of plastic wrap around the top of the soda bottle held in place by the plastic ring.  I’ve tried to keep them open enough s/he will still choose to go inside, but narrow enough to keep him/her inside without trapping said cory in the folds of plastic.

It has now become a battle of wits and I’m afraid I’m going to lose!  Worse, if I lose, the little cory is all too likely to become a pea puffer victim in the long run.

Edit to add there are at least 3 cories still in there, the smallest seems runty compared to the others, not growing well at all.

 

 

Edited February 5, 2021 by Odd Duck

[Odd Duck]

12 baby cories out and rejoined with the parents.  Nothing caught but snails in several days, now.  I think I got them all! I’m leaving the trap in and baited for a while longer since snails have laid eggs in it.  🙄  I don’t mind the snail eggs that will stay in the puffer tank for food.  I won’t have to feed much for weeks except to give them some variety.

 

So, aquarist life lesson, super easy to make a DIY soda bottle fish trap that has worked very well for these small babies.

[Odd Duck]

Just when I thought I was done, I just caught one more!  😆 Big snail and snail babies back in the tank, cory released into the cory tank.  Baker’s dozen, so far.  I guess I’m keeping the fish trap in there even longer than I thought.  🤷🏻‍♀️

[Pleasantly Planted Waters]

Always a pleasant time when the corys decide to be social towards me! 💚💚

Edited February 11, 2021 by Pleasantly Planted Waters