Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => New Fishkeepers => Topic started by: Amlaikin on May 06, 2014, 08:20:12 PM
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Strange question for you guys!
A couple of weeks ago I added 4 corydoras to my planted 120l tank. I was told by the seller that they would be likely to hide away at first until they felt confident, but they have been happy and active since they went in :)
Then yesterday morning I saw one was lying in a plant upside down not moving but I could see slight gill movement. I thought he was dying and did a water test immediately but levels were all good. So I came back and he was swimming about again and I didn't know which one had been doing this as they all looked active.
When I got home from work today one was in the place place/position but a short time later swimming around again!
Is this normal?! ???
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To be honest, it is not something I have seen myself, but then I've only got pygmy cories and they're not quite the same as their larger cousins.
I would keep an eye on this cory. In my tanks it is known for sick fish to wedge themselves in plants before they die - probably easier than having to swim or risk getting dragged around by the current. But hopefully, you just have an eccentric cory :D
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Hi Amlaikin,
My cories love to lounge around in the vegetation, but I can't say I have ever noticed any of them upside down ???
I have pepper cories and panda cories....what do you have? (Apologies if you have already said....I'm catching up on threads :-[ )
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Peppered and albino, but it's an albino that was doing it. Only seen it do it one more time since and they're all doing fine.
The albinos are a bit crackers though - nice and laid back sometimes and jetting around like crazy other times!