Need help identifying a cory and a pleco.

[rreekers]

I'm pretty sure different types of cories will hang out together and enjoy eachothers company

 

[debisbooked]

Cory needs some friends, but I want to make sure I get the same kind. I didn't know they needed to live in groups.

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The LFS guy said this pleco would stay small, but if anyone can identify him and tell me if that's true, I'd love to know. This pic is fuzzy because I had to magnify it from a larger pic. If I can get a clearer one, I will, but this is the only one I have right now. Pleco pretty much stays hidden when the lights are on. He's brown with tan markings, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't have any bristles on his nose.

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The cory looks like "trilianatus" to me. I know its not a Swartz cory because I have those. Hard to see the plec though.

I had a common plec once in a 10g tank- the plec that gets really big if they don't die in small tanks first. My son's girlfriend gave it to me-she was keeping it in a goldfish bowl! I kept it for a few weeks, fattened him up, and then gave it to the lfs that offered a bigger and better home for it. I really hated to see him go-his ugliness was rather endearing!

 

[Coursair]

I'm pretty sure different types of cories will hang out together and enjoy eachothers company

But if you can get a group of the same they may hang out more and may even breed for you. Different species sometimes like each other, sometimes shun each other. A group of same species is best bet if you can swing it IMHO.

 

[rreekers]

But if you can get a group of the same they may hang out more and may even breed for you. Different species sometimes like each other, sometimes shun each other. A group of same species is best bet if you can swing it IMHO.

I totally beloved that.. I was just saying if unable to figure out exactly what it is or find the same one at the OPs lfs