Fish: Re: [tropical fish club] Do corys eat guppies?

Nitrite is toxic your tank is not cycled. This is likely why the fish are not
acting normal. Are you using liquid test kits? What is your nitrate reading.

Are you leaving uneaten foods in the tank? This fowls the water.
If your tap water tests out at 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, and under 40 nitrate do a
25% water change ASAP.

Donna

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From: Glen <pritchard22@verizon.net>
Do corys eat guppies?

Wow, quick responses.

Been checking chemical analysis of the water for months. Everything checks out.
Ammonia level has been zero, and nitrite zero to 0.3. I also have been doing a
20-25% water change every two weeks, sometimes every week.

As for the fish jumping out, the tank is covered. When I turned on the light the
morning it was down to two, they were cowering in a "hideout" carved into a rock
and behind a plant. Since I removed the final guppy to, essentially, a fish
bowl, he is much calmer. The behavior of the corys, however, has changed.

The corys have hardly shown themselves today. Whereas when I feed then in the
morning, they come out from wherever they are to eat. Then when it's time for me
to turn out the light, the three of them start getting frisky, darting all over
the place. (Yet, at zero, the ammonia level isn't the cause.) Today, when I
turned out the light, they were hiding. It took a lot of looking to find them.
They even ignored the food I gave them today.

There's a pet store this way, an old fashioned one, not a chain like Pet Smart,
who has offered to take them from me. I just may do that, but I'd sure like to
know if this could happen with other corys.

--- In tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com, hardrock33 <hardrock33us@...> wrote:
>
> Hi guys and gals,
> Right now I have 5 full grown Corys in a 29 galloin
> and baby guppies that were born freely in the tank, the corys do their own
> thing, they don't even try to get the babies. The babies do stay tword the
> top thouigh.
> Henry
> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Larry Blanchard <labl@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Donna King wrote:
> > > I would test your water for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH.
> > > I will guess your running high on ammonia or nitrite.
> >
> > But Donna, it sounds like Glen's fish are disappearing, not dying. And
> > the cories are apparently doing fine.
> >
> > Glen, are you sure the guppies haven't jumped out? Look behind the tank.
> >
> > Catfish are omnivorous. I don't know if they'd kill the guppies, but
> > they'd probably eat any that had died are were too slow to get away.
> > But at under one inch even a guppy should be too large for them.
> >
> > If I misunderstood what you said and you indeed have dead fish then
> > Donna's suggestions should be followed.
> >
> > Larry B
> >
> >
>
>
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