Can Corys give off an electric charge when stressed?

[dapellegrini]

I few weeks back i bought a half-dozen SAEs and 2 Corys from the LFS. The kid put them both in the same bag and sent me on my way.

When I got home all of the SAEs were floating upside down in the bag and the two corys were just fine. I have never had a fish die in the bag on the way home from the LFS, which led me to ponder how this could occur.

SAEs can be very fragile in my experience, but i brought 4 more back from the LFS in a seperate bag and had no problems (at least in the transportation). I thought I heard somewhere that Corys can give off an electrical charge when stressed but I can't seem to find anything to prove that one way or the other.

Anyone else heard of this, or have any other ideas on how 2 small corys killed off a school of SAE bag-mates?

 

[coldmachineUK]

Hmm...I've never heard of that before but it's true you learn something new every day. I will go research that, but I don't believe corys contain an electric organ that would enable them to do that. I could be wrong...someone else will correct me if so!

 

[Acer]

maybe it was the spines on the corys that actually killed the sae's

 

[rich311k]

Corys are not an electrical fish. Maybe the saes was just one of those things. I would make sure your LFS seperates your fish by species into different bags in the future, that way you can acclimate each sepeartely and avoid any aggression problems.