SA & Corys

[Somethings Fishy]

My missus reckons she has read about people keeping corys in the same tank as American cichlids & that it can be done. It probably can with discus, severum, festivum & other cichlids that only have small mouths & are not active hunters.
Unfortunatley the missus now reckons she can have corys in our 6x2x2ft american display tank with our green terror, chocolate & brazilness.

Can a few people point out some of the problems that she will encounter trying to put corys in this particular tank? She simply does not believe me when I say they might as well be live food. She is convinced that because our fish are all still under 4inches, they will grow up with the corys & will leave them alone.
I on the other hand think it would only be a matter of time until corys start getting swallowed along with big gob fulls of gravel.
Help me save some innocent corys please.

 

[mfdrookie516]

ouch... id say one problem would be that you would have a bunch of corys coming out in a brown string like form from the bottom of your fish...

 

[ManInAHat73]

Congrats on 1000 posts rookie!

 

[mfdrookie516]

Congrats on 1000 posts rookie!

haha thanks

 

[Somethings Fishy]

I couldn't agree more. It's only a matter of time IMO until they get eaten & I would bet on sooner rather than later too. Unfortunately the missus has a habit of dropping new fish in tanks while I'm at work & leaving me to clean up the mess. I'm hoping to stop her doing that this time as I really don't want to chase corys around a 6ft heavily decorated tank. Nor do I want to try & find the half chewed bodies of innocent fish.
MAYBE if enough people tell her it's a bad idea she will listen but the one person I know she won't listen to is me. The only person in our hose that knows anything about fish at all. Makes it very hard for me to have successfull tanks.

 

[EscVelocity]

Haha...you should get a tank for her.

 

[mgamer20o0]

thats a option set up another tank let her toss the cories in there.