Albino Cory Cats
They re a little more sensitive to the light than many other breeds so you will want to add extra vegetation to the aquarium but still provide plenty of room for free swimming at night and in low light conditions.
Albino cory cats. Aquarium enthusiasts created albino cory from a darker colored cory. Flake freeze dried frozen live foods and pellets. These fish are pure pink white and have bright red eyes.
As is the case with all species in the genus cory cats will regularly swim quickly to the surface for a gulp of air. The albino corydoras catfish is a very hardy fish that is often recommended to beginners looking for something a little different from the usual plecostomus unlike the pleco the albino cory is fairly active during the day constantly on the hunt for food scraps. In the aquarium environment albino cory cats will readily accept a variety of meaty and vegetable matter foodstuffs including.
The fish swallows the air which blood vessels in the hind gut extract oxygen from. 72 78 degrees f 22 26 degrees c tankmates. One of the first bottom feeding fish many aquarists purchase is the albino cory cat or one of its relatives.
There are over 170 recognized species of corydoras with 100 species yet to be given scientific names they belong to the family callichthyidae and range throughout south america from the andes mountains to the atlantic coast and from trinidad to northern argentina. 5 years minimum tank size. The peppered cory are found in the la plata river basin in southeast brazil.
Albino cory cats are also a very peaceful species that can be kept with any variety of other peaceful freshwater community fish. To 12 degrees dgh temperature. This species is an excellent scavenger that will work to keep the aquarium substrate clean of excess foodstuffs and some decaying plant matter.
Peaceful best kept in schools with other smaller fish. It is then. Corydoras paleatus also known as.
Blue leopard corydoras peppered catfish peppered cory adult size.
