panda cories?

[a.tetreault]

i've heard of some people who keep panda cories in 10 gallon tanks, i was wondering if this would be suitable for my tank?

i have:

1 apple snail
7 neon tetras

and i will be adding a dwarf blue gourami

my original plan was to get ghost shrimp, but apparently as of like a month ago they have become illegal in manitoba! i thought of getting red cherry shrimp but am not really as interested in them. so i was hoping i could get a trio of pandas?

 

[siva]

Habrosus are great in a 10 gal. Pandas are bigger and I would consider a 15/20H minimum for them, though some would find them suitable.

When stocking cories get 6 or more if you can, but 4 at the very least. This goes for all cories, but especially the smaller guys that seem to really do best in larger groups.

 

[a.tetreault]

The reason I picked panda cories was because I don't have a very big selection, What I have seen so far has only been bronzed, panda, peppered and albino. Would any of the other ones be more suitable? I'm not familiar with scientific names at all so I have to go just by looks and the names that the petstores give them.

 

[siva]

The peppered are larger than the pandas, and the bronze and albino even larger, so definitely leave those out.

 

[warthog76za]

Why not get dwarf corys? I keep some in my nano tank, unreal to see the miniture version of the cory, they very cute and Ive found more active than the Panda/Pepper corys I have in my bigger tank.

 

[a.tetreault]

I dont have an lfs near by that sells dwarf cories for some reason. I think I might try 4 pandas in my ten gallon and see how they do.

 

[siva]

OK. Lots of times shops can order in all different types of cories that they don't typically stock. If you wanna give it a shot you can always ask your local shops if they can order the habrosus aka dwarf cories for you.

 

[a.tetreault]

Okay, I will ask around first and if not I'll do pandas. Thanks guys!