Minimum number of cory cats?

[Tropical]

I saw some panda cory cats at the LFS yesterday. I've always wanted them, but it was the first time I saw them in a store. They were pretty expensive, $4 each, so a school of 6 would cost $24, which is a lot. Is 6 the minimum they need to be happy, or will three or four work?

 

[allaboutfish]

4 would be my absolute minimum

 

[rich311k]

3-5 the more the merrier.

 

[Tropical]

Ok, could I add 4 to a 20 long with a German Blue Ram, 8 neon tetras, and 3 platy, or would that be overstocled?

 

[adadkins1]

I think that would be a good stocking. I would make sure you get all male platies unless you want tons of babies.

 

[allaboutfish]

dont add another ram though bc the corys will be toast

 

[Shadowraven]

5 is the recommended minimum, but you may be able to do 4. If you get 4, I would add at least 1 more to the tank when you can afford it.

 

[warthog76za]

Ive got 3 pepper corys (since I started my tank in January) and 4 Panda corys, love all my fish but the corys I enjoy alot. I love watching them when they eat in formation another I love watching is when they one side of the tank I throw the food at the opposite side, just to see how long the take to react to FEEDING TIME. They like bloodhounds hahahahah

 

[bruinsbro1997]

Cories are good in groups of four, preferabbly more, but there are just four cories in my tank and its all chill.
As for the rams, its a hit and miss. My cories and rams practically ignore each other, the gravel side of my tank is for rams, the sand side of my tank is for the cories. The only time they are competitive with each other is when they are eating shrimp pellets, then they fight over food...

 

[allaboutfish]

i have 4 juliis now and i think theyre perfectly fine, but i will be adding 2 more just bc they remind me of little kids. i get what you mean by what they cost. mine cost me 4 dollars each too.

 

[jetajockey]

dont add another ram though bc the corys will be toast

Do tell. I've kept many many rams and for the most part they ignore other species and only show aggression towards one another.

 

[bofadeeznuts]

It is recommended that a school of cords be no smaller then 6 maybe 5 at the bare minimum

 

[Giant Danio]

i have 4 juliis now and i think theyre perfectly fine, but i will be adding 2 more just bc they remind me of little kids. i get what you mean by what they cost. mine cost me 4 dollars each too.

Lucky, I live in Canada and at big ALS in Calgary panda cory's are 10.00$ each

 

[allaboutfish]

when they breed they can get too aggressive to coexcist with corys. this is just from what i've read.

 

[jetajockey]

when they breed they can get too aggressive to coexcist with corys. this is just from what i've read.

They'll be ok. Mine squabble with one another when breeding but even then they seem to do fine staking out territory without excessively hurting one another, like what happens with larger cichlids.

 

[allaboutfish]

They'll be ok. Mine squabble with one another when breeding but even then they seem to do fine staking out territory without excessively hurting one another, like what happens with larger cichlids.

that's good to know! i always thought they'd be bad with them.

 

[Tropical]

That is good to know, I think I'll pick up some on the weekend.

 

[bruinsbro1997]

Lucky, I live in Canada and at big ALS in Calgary panda cory's are 10.00$ each

That's just ridiculous, and I thought cories here for seven dollars was overpriced.

 

[jetajockey]

They are much cheaper if bought online, I got 10 for around 35 bucks from a friend who imports. My lfs has them for $6 or 7 apiece also, its crazy.

 

[Ickletas]

I saw some panda cory cats at the LFS yesterday. I've always wanted them, but it was the first time I saw them in a store. They were pretty expensive, $4 each, so a school of 6 would cost $24, which is a lot. Is 6 the minimum they need to be happy, or will three or four work?

I have 5 corys in my tank:1 panda (Feldman), 1 albino (Haim), 1 julii and 2 melanistius and they school together. Maybe you could get a couple of pandas and fill the school with another, less expensive type.