dwarf cories...

[trashion]

my 15 gallon, well-planted tank houses 6 harlequin rasboras and a male krib. i see a shrimp now and then, so i think i have at least 2 amano shrimp still there, hiding out somewhere.

i was looking at cories, and i just can't resist their cuteness. i know my tank has a fair fishload, but could i add some dwarf cories to it?

my other worry is how my krib would react. i had an endler in the tank, but i'm positive he ate it during the night. he occasionally chases the harlies around, but he's never been able to catch them. plus, i doubt he could actually fit them in his mouth.

i really love the look of pygmaeus cories. how big are they, compared to harlequin rasboras and endlers? i don't want milo to get an expensive snack...

[JustOneMore20]

Pygmaeus get about 1 inch long.....and are smaller than Harlequins lengthwise and probably a little thicker, but maybe about the size as of an Endler lengthwise? They are a tad thicker around than Endlers though, I think. I haven't seen Endlers in person, but I know they are tiny. Since dwarf cories spend a fair amount of time on the bottom, I would be worried about them against the Krib. They aren't aggressive at all, so I know that Milo would succeed in pushing them around......but I'm not sure he'd eat them. It does worry me that he's eaten an Endler though.

With enough hiding spots and plants in the tank, they might be safe......I'm not confident enough to tell you to go for it though.

[fishbguy]

I wouldn't do it. My curviceps chases my pygmaeus and my habrosus around all the time. So I have no doubt that Milo would be able to kill them, espacially in a tank as small as yours, not that yours is small, it's just not large enough to give Milo the room he needs for a territory, and still give the cories room to escape his wrath

[trashion]

rats! oh well. i love the little beast, even if he is a murderer. i won't give him any more victims.